Purview Compliance Manager Templates, Actions and Scoring

What Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager Is

Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager is an end-to-end compliance management tool within the Microsoft Purview portal. It assists organizations in automatically assessing, tracking, and managing their regulatory compliance posture across multicloud environments and SaaS platforms.

How It Meets the Requirements

• Regulatory Assessment Templates: Compliance Manager includes pre-built templates covering hundreds of global, regional, and industry-specific regulations (such as GDPR, ISO/IEC 27001, and NIST CSF).
• Improvement Actions: It translates complex regulatory controls into straightforward, step-by-step improvement actions assigned to specific team members to remediate compliance risks.
• Risk Scoring & Audit Readiness: It calculates a dynamic compliance score based on implemented controls (both customer-managed and Microsoft-managed), providing auditable evidence and clear documentation for regulatory review.

Key Advantages

• Comprehensive baseline: Provides a default Data Protection Baseline to establish an initial risk posture without complex setup.
• Multicloud assessment: Evaluates controls spanning across Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure, and third-party clouds.
• Control mapping: Maps single technical actions to multiple compliance standards simultaneously, reducing administrative overhead.
• Role-based governance: Supports granular role-based access control (RBAC) to restrict assessment visibility to authorized auditors and administrators.

Why This Is Optimal

Compliance Manager is uniquely built to track regulatory obligations, provide actionable remediation workflows, and demonstrate overall compliance readiness through measurable metrics, making it the ideal solution.