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Microsoft Priva

Microsoft Priva, privacy management beyond DLP.

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  • 30+Priva tenants
  • GDPRWorkflow ready
  • PDPLUAE-aligned
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What Priva delivers

Five privacy disciplines, one platform.

Priva is the privacy operationalisation layer on top of Purview. Discover personal data, assess risk, automate subject-rights requests, and document the evidence regulators look for.

Privacy Risk Management

Continuous discovery of personal data across the M365 estate. Risk policies for over-retention, over-exposure, transfers across boundaries. Daily anomaly alerts to compliance team.

Subject Rights Requests

Automated workflow for data-subject access requests, deletion requests, portability requests. Search across the M365 corpus, redact, package, deliver inside regulatory deadlines.

Cross-border data flows

Visibility into where personal data sits and where it moves. Transfer-impact assessment support, data-residency monitoring, regulator-ready transfer registers.

Privacy assessments

Privacy-impact-assessment templates, data-processing-activity records, documentation aligned to GDPR Article 30, UAE PDPL, and other regional frameworks.

Consent management

Consent receipts, withdrawal workflows, audit trails for marketing communications, customer-data processing, and employee-data handling.

Compliance reporting

Privacy-posture dashboards, risk-trend reporting, subject-rights-request metrics, regulator-ready evidence packages.

Why GR IT for Priva

Four reasons clients pick us for the deployment.

Priva sits in a niche between Purview and full privacy-management platforms. Most clients underuse it; the workflow value comes from disciplined deployment.

30+ Priva tenants

Pattern recognition matters. We have deployed Priva across financial services, healthcare, and retail. Common subject-rights-request patterns, common consent-tracking gaps.

GDPR + UAE PDPL aware

Priva schemas designed for both EU GDPR and UAE Personal Data Protection Law. Cross-border transfer registers, retention timelines, regulator-aligned documentation.

Tuned, not just enabled

Privacy-risk policies tuned to your environment. Subject-rights-request workflows configured per regulatory framework. Templates for common privacy assessments.

Dubai-based privacy engineers

Compliance engineers with CIPP/E, CIPM, and ISO 27001 LA credentials. Same team that deploys Priva supports ongoing privacy operations.

Industries using Priva

Priva deployments by sector.

Six sectors where Priva provides material privacy-workflow uplift over manual processes.

Financial services

DIFC and ADGM-licensed firms using Priva for customer subject-rights requests, cross-border transfer visibility, audit-ready privacy evidence.

Healthcare

Hospitals, clinics, medical groups using Priva for PHI subject-rights requests, parent/guardian consent management, DHA-compliant privacy posture.

Professional services

Law firms and consultancies using Priva for client-data subject-rights requests, matter-based PII discovery, ethical-wall enforcement.

Tech and SaaS

SaaS companies using Priva for customer-data subject-rights requests, GDPR portability, internal-employee subject requests.

Retail and e-commerce

Retail groups using Priva for customer-loyalty data subject-rights requests, marketing-consent management, PCI DSS-aligned PII handling.

Education

Schools and universities using Priva for student-record subject-rights requests, parental-consent management, alumni-data retention.

Priva vs manual subject-rights workflows

Why automated subject-rights handling matters.

Most organisations handle data-subject requests manually: someone searches inboxes, copies attachments, redacts in Word, emails to the requester. The honest comparison:
Time per subject-rights request
Manual workflow8-40 hours
Microsoft Priva1-4 hours
Search across M365 estate
Manual workflowManual
Microsoft PrivaAutomated
Redaction
Manual workflowManual
Microsoft PrivaAssisted
Deadline tracking
Manual workflowSpreadsheet
Microsoft PrivaBuilt-in
Audit trail of request handling
Manual workflowLimited
Microsoft PrivaFull chain of custody
Risk of missed deadline
GDPR is 30 days; UAE PDPL has similar timelines.
Manual workflowHigh
Microsoft PrivaLow
Cost per request (mid-volume)
Manual workflowAED 2,000-5,000
Microsoft PrivaAED 200-500
Feature
Manual workflow
Per-request improvisation
Microsoft Priva
Automated, audited
Time per subject-rights request
8-40 hours1-4 hours
Search across M365 estate
ManualAutomated
Redaction
ManualAssisted
Deadline tracking
SpreadsheetBuilt-in
Audit trail of request handling
LimitedFull chain of custody
Risk of missed deadline
GDPR is 30 days; UAE PDPL has similar timelines.
HighLow
Cost per request (mid-volume)
AED 2,000-5,000AED 200-500
How a deployment runs

From privacy audit to managed Priva operations.

Every Priva engagement runs the same path. Documented, evidenced, deliverable on a fixed timeline.
  1. 1

    Privacy audit

    2-3 weeks

    Current-state privacy posture, regulatory mapping (GDPR, PDPL, sector-specific), data-flow assessment. Output: gap report and deployment plan.

  2. 2

    Schema design

    1-2 weeks

    Privacy risk policies, subject-rights-request templates, consent receipt schemas, cross-border transfer register design. Reviewed and signed off before build.

  3. 3

    Deployment

    3-5 weeks

    Risk policies activated, SRR workflows configured, integration with Purview labels, dashboards built, training delivered to compliance team.

  4. 4

    Operate

    Continuous

    Ongoing risk monitoring, subject-rights-request handling, quarterly policy reviews, audit evidence kept current. Same team that deployed operates.

“We process 12-20 subject-rights requests a year and each one used to take a week of an associate's time. GR IT deployed Priva with proper search and redaction workflows, integrated with our retention labels, and the average request now takes 3 hours. We also have audit-ready evidence of every request, redaction, and deadline. The next regulator review will be a non-event.”
Hassan Al Suwaidi
Data Protection Officer · B2C SaaS company, GDPR-applicable
Subject-rights requests from 1 week to 3 hours
Common questions

Microsoft Priva, frequently asked.

Further reading

Resources for privacy leads.

Microsoft Purview

Data-protection foundation that Priva builds on. Sensitivity labels, DLP, retention, audit logging.

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Compliance Manager

Compliance assessment platform that scores your privacy posture against GDPR, PDPL, and sector frameworks.

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Cybersecurity audit

Independent privacy posture audit. Subject-rights workflow review, GDPR/PDPL gap analysis, written remediation programme.

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Ready to deploy Priva properly?

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Three-minute form. Our privacy team gets back the same business day to schedule a discovery call. We will tell you whether Priva fits your privacy-workflow volume before you commit licensing.

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