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Protect What Purview Can’t
Cyberhaven adds data lineage and extends protection to non-M365 apps, proprietary file types, and deeper macOS controls, beyond where Purview focuses on Microsoft 365.
Why Teams Use CyberhavenWith Microsoft Purview
Cyberhaven works alongside Microsoft Purview, extending data protection beyond what Purview covers on its own.
Purview anchors data security inside Microsoft 365. Around it, Cyberhaven adds Data Security for the Agentic Enterprise, unifying data loss prevention (DLP), data security posture management (DSPM), insider risk management (IRM), and AI Security on one platform. Cyberhaven traces the full lifecycle of your data and adapts protection to changing context, so coverage reaches data that moves outside Microsoft 365, non-Office file types, macOS, and the lineage that shows where data came from. Together they help you act on risk before it becomes loss.
Top Three Reasons Teams Choose Cyberhaven
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Enhanced Risk Detection
Cyberhaven spots risky behavior and data misuse by combining context from data lineage and content inspection. Purview enforces M365 policies, while Cyberhaven adds deeper insider risk insights and protection.
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Faster, Optimized Security
Cyberhaven speeds investigations with data lineage and discovery. Purview provides M365 controls; Cyberhaven makes the overall process more efficient.
Detailed Comparison
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Feature comparison
Cyberhaven + Purview
Microsoft Purview alone
Real-time detection and policy enforcement
Cyberhaven + Purview
Real-time detection and policy enforcement
across Windows and macOS. Policies sync in seconds.
Microsoft Purview alone
Enforcement runs on the endpoint once a policy reaches the device, but policy deployment and group changes take about an hour and up to 24 hours to propagate. macOS covers most activities, though it trails Windows on controls such as RDP and just-in-time protection.
File type support
Cyberhaven + Purview
Supports all file types
including images, CAD, source code, and proprietary formats. Not limited to Microsoft Office formats.
Microsoft Purview alone
Content detection covers Office files, PDF, CSV, text, source code, archives, and images through OCR. Persistent label-based protection stays centered on Office and PDF, and formats such as CAD, CAM, and video get little native inspection.
Incident investigations
Cyberhaven + Purview
Automatic investigations.
Data lineage shows step-by-step data history, accelerating root cause analysis.
Microsoft Purview alone
Investigation spans the Purview and Defender portals and adds Data Security Investigations, which uses generative AI to analyze incident content. Analysts still reconstruct how data moved by correlating logs, because Purview does not reconstruct end-to-end lineage of how data moves across users, devices, and apps.
Data classification
Cyberhaven + Purview
Lineage and content-based classification.
Cyberhaven classifies based on where data came from, who interacted with it, and how it was used, in addition to keywords and patterns.
Microsoft Purview alone
Classification uses keywords, regular expressions, and dictionaries, and also machine-learning trainable classifiers, exact data match, and OCR. It classifies content and applies labels, but it does not trace how data moves from its origin, so it cannot show where a file came from or how it was derived.
macOS coverage
Cyberhaven + Purview
Full macOS support
with real-time policy enforcement.
Microsoft Purview alone
macOS runs on the three latest releases and covers most activities, including clipboard, USB, print, network share, and cloud upload. Some controls stay Windows only, such as RDP, Windows Recall capture, and just-in-time protection, and paste detection in browsers is in preview on macOS.
Policy deployment speed
Cyberhaven + Purview
Fast policy deployment.
Policies sync in near real-time to endpoints, enabling rapid response to incidents.
Microsoft Purview alone
Delayed policy deployment. Policies can take more than an hour, and sometimes up to 24 hours, to deploy fully.
User experience
Cyberhaven + Purview
Unified, visual interface
shows lineage, violations, and classification context in one place.
Microsoft Purview alone
Purview consolidates configuration into one portal, but investigation still moves between the Purview and Defender portals, and much of the view stays tabular.
AI and Agentic-Tool Coverage
Cyberhaven + Purview
Extends coverage to desktop and command-line AI developer tools
such as Claude Code and Cursor on macOS, and uses Data Lineage to show what data flowed into the AI tools it covers and where it came from.
Microsoft Purview alone
Controls data going to some third-party GenAI through its endpoint and browser product, but coverage of AI-native developer and desktop tools is limited, and it reads content without lineage.
Source Code and IP Protection
Cyberhaven + Purview
Inspects and protects source code and other developer file types
with content and Data Lineage, beyond Office and labeled content.
Microsoft Purview alone
Centers protection on Office and labeled content; it can scan code files as text but offers no source-code-aware classification or lineage.
Real world impact
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