As organizations adopt AI, security and governance remain core primitives for safe AI transformation and acceleration. After all, data leaders are aware of the notion that:
Your AI is only as good as your data.
Organizations are skeptical about AI transformation due to concerns of sensitive data oversharing and poor data quality. In fact, 86% of organizations lack visibility into AI data flows, operating in darkness about what information employees share with AI systems [1]. Compounding on this challenge, about 67% of executives are uncomfortable using data for AI due to quality concerns [2]. The challenges of data oversharing and poor data quality requires organizations to solve these issues seamlessly for the safe usage of AI. Microsoft Purview offers a modern, unified approach to help organizations secure and govern data across their entire data estate, in particular best in class integrations with M365, Microsoft Fabric, and Azure data estates, streamlining oversight and reducing complexity across the estate.
At FabCon Atlanta, we’re announcing new Microsoft Purview innovations for Fabric to help seamlessly secure and confidently activate your data for AI transformation. These updates span data security and data governance, granting Fabric users to both
- Discover risks and prevent data oversharing in Fabric
- Improve governance processes and data quality across their data estate
1. Discover risks and prevent data oversharing in Fabric
As data volume increases with AI usage, Microsoft Purview secures your data with capabilities such as Information Protection, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Insider Risk Management (IRM), and Data Security Posture Management (DSPM). These capabilities work together to secure data throughout its lifecycle and now specifically for your Fabric data estate. Here are a few new Purview innovations for your Fabric estate:
Microsoft Purview DLP policies to prevent data leakage for Fabric Warehouse and KQL/SQL DBs
Now generally available, Microsoft Purview DLP policies allow Fabric admins to prevent data oversharing in Fabric through policy tip triggering when sensitive data is detected in assets uploaded to Warehouses. Additionally, in preview, Purview DLP enables Fabric admins to restrict access to assets with sensitive data in KQL/SQL DBs and Fabric Warehouses to prevent data oversharing. This helps admins limit access to sensitive data detected in these data sources and data stores to just asset owners and allowed collaborators. These DLP innovations expand upon the depth and breadth of existing DLP policies to ensure sensitive data in Fabric is protected.
Figure 1. DLP restrict access preventing data oversharing of customer information stored in a KQL database.
Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management (IRM) indicators for Lakehouse, IRM data theft quick policy for Fabric, and IRM pay-as-you-go usage report for Fabric
Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management is now generally available for Microsoft Fabric extending its risk-detection capabilities to Microsoft Fabric lakehouses (in addition to Power BI which is supported today) by offering ready-to-use risk indicators based on risky user activities in Fabric lakehouses, such as sharing data from a Fabric lakehouse with people outside the organization . Additionally, IRM data theft policy is now generally available for security admins to create a data theft policy to detect Fabric data exfiltration, such as exporting Power BI reports. Also, organizations now have visibility into how much they are billed with the IRM pay-as-you-go usage report for Fabric, providing customers with an easy-to-use dashboard to track their consumption and predictability on costs.
Figure 2. IRM identifying risky user behavior when handling data in a Fabric Lakehouse.
Figure 3. Security admins can create a data theft policy to detect Fabric data exfiltration.
Figure 4. Security admins can check the pay-as-you-go usage (processing units) across different workloads and activities such as the downgrading of sensitivity labels of a lakehouse through the usage report.
Microsoft Purview for all Fabric Copilots and Agents
Microsoft Purview currently provides capabilities in preview for all Copilots and Agents in Fabric. Organizations can:
- Discover data risks such as sensitive data in user prompts and responses and receive recommended actions to reduce these risks.
- Detect and remediate oversharing risks with Data Risk Assessments on DSPM, that identify potentially overshared, unprotected, or sensitive Fabric assets, giving teams clear visibility into where data exposure exists and enabling targeted actions—like applying labels or policies—to reduce risk and ensure Fabric data is AI‑ready and governed by design.
- Identify risky AI usage with Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management to investigate risky AI usage, such as an inadvertent user who has neglected security best practices and shared sensitive data in AI.
- Govern AI usage with Microsoft Purview Audit, Microsoft Purview eDiscovery, retention policies, and non-compliant usage detection.
Figure 5. Purview DSPM provides admins with the ability to discover data risks such as a user’s attempt to obtain historical data within a data agent in the Data Science workload in Fabric. DSPM subsequently provides actions to solve this risk.
Now that we’ve covered how Purview helps secure Fabric data and AI, the next focus is ensuring Fabric users can use that data responsibly.
2. Improve governance processes and data quality across their data estate
Once an organization’s data is secured for AI, the next challenge is ensuring consumers can easily find and trust the data needed for AI. This is where the Purview Unified Catalog comes in, serving as the foundation for enterprise data governance. Estate-wide data discovery provides a holistic view of the data landscape, helping prevent valuable data from being underutilized. Built-in data quality tools enable teams to measure, monitor, and remediate issues such as incomplete records, inconsistencies, and redundancies, ensuring decisions and AI outcomes are based on trusted, reliable data. Purview provides additional governance capabilities for all data consumers and governance teams and supplement those who utilize the Fabric OneLake catalog. Here are a few new innovations within the Purview Unified Catalog:
Publication workflows for data products and glossary terms
Now generally available, data owners can leverage Workflows in the Purview Unified Catalog to manage how data products and glossary terms are published. Customizable workflows enable governance teams to work faster to create a well curated catalog, specifically by ensuring that data products and glossary terms are published and governed responsibly. Data consumers can request access to data products and be reassured that the data is held to a certain governance standard by governance teams.
Figure 6. Customizing a Workflow for publishing a glossary term in your catalog.
Data quality for ungoverned assets in the Unified Catalog, including Fabric data
In the Unified Catalog, Data Quality for ungoverned data assets allows organizations to run data quality on data assets, including Fabric assets, without linking them to data products. This approach enables data quality stewards to run data quality at a faster speed and on greater scale, ensuring that their organizations can democratize high quality data for AI use cases.
Figure 7. Running data quality on data assets without it being associated with a data product.
Looking Forward
As organizations accelerate their AI ambitions, data security and governance become essential. Microsoft Purview and Microsoft Fabric deliver an integrated and unified foundation that enables organizations to innovate with confidence, ensuring data is protected, governed, and trusted for responsible AI activation.
We’re committed to helping you stay ahead of evolving challenges and opportunities as you unlock more value from your data. Explore these new capabilities and join us on the journey toward a more secure, governed, and AI‑ready data future.
[1] 2025 AI Security Gap: 83% of Organizations Flying Blind
[2] The Importance Of Data Quality: Metrics That Drive Business Success
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