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Protect is licensed per licensed Microsoft 365 user in your tenant, not per admin, feature or machine. Guests and external users are not counted, every capability is included, and you can start with any number of users on an annual term.

It depends mainly on data volume and complexity. Essentials suits small migrations of about 1 TB or less, Migrate Pro suits 1 to 5 TB with up to 5 concurrent migration machines, and Migrate Enterprise suits 5 TB and more with up to 25 machines and 24/7 prioritised support.

Yes. A free trial is available, starting with a Governance Risk Assessment of your Microsoft 365 tenant.

No. Protect complements Microsoft Purview, SharePoint Advanced Management and the Microsoft 365 admin centres. It does not replace classification, DLP or compliance tooling; it helps you fix the access conditions that affect how well those controls work.

Protect works within standard Microsoft 365 admin permission models and does not need elevated or non-standard privileges. Remediation uses Microsoft-approved Graph and admin APIs, and nothing runs without operator review.

Yes. Organisations moving to a new tenant often pair Migrate for the move with Protect for governance afterwards, and we can quote both together.