Tracks compliance data in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Inside Defender for Cloud Apps this Entra role has read access to everything, may build or edit file policies, and can open discovery reports.
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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
- Sensitivity Label Administrator
Grants full control of sensitivity labels in Purview: view, create, edit and delete. Security Administrator, Organization Management and Compliance Data Administrator role groups all include it.