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Data protection in Dynamics 365 is essential to prevent unintended changes, safeguard business-critical information and ensure consistent data quality.
While Dynamics 365 provides security roles and audit logging, these mechanisms react after changes have already happened.
This insight explains how proactive data protection works in Dynamics 365 and how rule-based governance solutions like xRM Data Guard protect Dataverse data before critical changes are committed.
In Dynamics 365, data protection refers to the prevention and control of unwanted or invalid data changes within Dataverse, based on defined business rules and security policies.
Unlike audit logging or post-change validation, proactive data protection ensures that critical data changes are blocked, validated or redirected before they impact business processes.
Native security roles control access to records but do not prevent incorrect or unwanted data changes within allowed permissions.
Audit logs and monitoring provide transparency after changes occur, but do not stop incorrect data modifications.
xRM Data Guard is a Dynamics 365 add-on designed for proactive data protection and governance directly in Dataverse.
xRM Data Guard enforces governance rules and protects business-critical data directly at the point of change – before errors impact your system.
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