Purview Information Protection (formerly known as Azure Information Protection and Microsoft Information Protection) is a data protection solution developed by Microsoft. It is part of the larger Microsoft Purview suite of tools that lets organizations discover, classify, and protect documents and emails. It was designed primarily to protect the document ecosystem of Microsoft Office and a limited number of third-party file formats. It focuses on end users or data owners making all security decisions on documents rather than allowing a centralized approach to security.