Chapter 12: Azure Information Protection

With data governance (DG) becoming more and more important, Microsoft 365 administrators need to consider how to identify and classify all of the data stored in their organization and take steps to protect against any sort of data loss, whether it be accidental or malicious.

Microsoft provides Azure Information Protection (AIP) to respond to these requirements. AIP enables the use of labels and policies to allow your users to classify and protect the data they are working with. This includes documents and emails. When you protect an email or document, encryption is applied, ensuring that the email or document may only be accessed by those who have permission. An example of AIP would be to apply a Do not forward label to an email, meaning that the recipient of that email is unable to forward the email to other parties who are not authorized to look at that content.

In this chapter, we will introduce the features of AIP. You will learn...