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Aug 2, 2026
Govern Microsoft 365 Copilot with Purview DSPM: Stop Oversharing Before You Deploy
Microsoft 365 Copilot governance means controlling what Copilot can surface, not just who can use it. Copilot does not break your permissions — it exposes them, turning a decade of overshared SharePoint sites into plain-English answers. This guide walks the actual Purview and SharePoint controls that fix it, in the order a security team should apply them: DSPM for AI to find overshared data, sensitivity labels plus DLP to stop Copilot processing it, and SharePoint Restricted Content Discovery to keep high-risk sites out of Copilot answers. Licence and GA/preview status validated against Microsoft Learn, August 2026.