Managing Sensitive Information
With data protection being more critical than it has ever been before, Microsoft 365 administrators need to consider how to protect their organization’s data and ensure that only those that are authorized can consume it. Microsoft Purview (which is the umbrella term for compliance in Microsoft 365) provides Information Protection features to respond to these requirements. Information Protection enables the use of sensitivity labels and policies to allow users to apply permissions and content marking to the data with which they are working. This includes documents and emails, teams, groups and sites, and much more. When you protect content with a sensitivity label, encryption is applied, ensuring that the content may only be accessed by those who have permission.
This chapter will introduce the features and capabilities of sensitivity labels in Microsoft Purview. You will learn how to plan your organization’s sensitivity label solution...