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Microsoft 365 security and compliance

A practical tour of the Microsoft 365 security and compliance stack — Defender, Purview, Entra, and how they fit together.

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Microsoft Defender

Defender is the family of threat-protection products:

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Microsoft Purview

Purview is the family of compliance and data-governance products:

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Microsoft Entra

Entra is the identity stack:

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How licences gate features

A lot of this stack lives behind Microsoft 365 E5 or its standalone add-ons (Defender for Office 365 Plan 1/2, Entra ID P1/P2, Purview eDiscovery Premium). Business Premium gives a meaningful subset for SMBs. If a featu…

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How the three pillars actually work together

The three-way split (Defender protects, Purview governs, Entra controls identity) is a useful mental model but understates how tightly the pillars actually interlock in a working tenant. Identity risk signals from Entra…

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