Microsoft 365. Protecting and managing sensitive information
Microsoft 365 users may need to create and access information from different physical locations via different apps running on different devices. Protecting sensitive information while maintaining collaboration capabilities becomes a key consideration.
Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) is a framework of products, services, and features such as Azure Information Protection, Cloud App Security and Windows Information Protection that help provide information protection. There have been – and continue to be – many developments in MIP. We will start with an understanding of what is meant by classifying documents and emails before moving on to look at some of these new developments.
Classifying documents and emails
One of the key areas of information protection is sensitivity labels in Office 365. When an organisation deploys sensitivity labels in Office 365, users can manually classify documents and emails using these labels. For example, in the figure below, a user is assigning a sensitivity label named ‘General’ to a document in Microsoft Word via the ‘Sensitivity’ button on the ribbon.