Looks after compliance capabilities in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Inside Defender for Cloud Apps the same Entra role has read access to everything and also handles alerts and file policies.
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Terms in this definition
- Microsoft 365
Formerly Office 365, Microsoft's software-as-a-service productivity suite. A Microsoft Entra tenant provides its identity, and its data is not governed by Azure RBAC.
- Microsoft Purview
Family of Microsoft products for data governance, security and compliance. Its Data Map stores only metadata, such as lineage, schema and classification, never the data itself.
- Role
How an actor normally or expectedly behaves, or the part a person takes in a process. A single actor may hold more than one role.
- CRUD
Shorthand for create, read, update and delete, the four basic things you do with data. Data-plane roles in Azure Cosmos DB, for instance, authorise those operations on items.
Related terms
- Priority Cleanup Admin
Role in Purview that grants setting up priority cleanup policies, managing them, and giving first-stage approval. Organization Management has it by default; Compliance Administrator lacks it.
- Scope Manager
Lets an admin create, change and remove adaptive scopes and similar scoping features in Purview. Compliance Administrator and Records Management are among the role groups that hold it.