What is Information Protection?
Microsoft Purview Information Protection brings together the features of Azure Information Protection with the Information Governance features of Microsoft 365. Microsoft Purview Information Protection helps your organization to do the following:
- Identify your data.
- Provide protection for your data.
- Govern your data.
We will explore each of these in the following sections.
Identify your data
To understand the data landscape in your organization across a hybrid or cloud environment, Microsoft Purview Information Protection offers the following capabilities:
- Sensitive information types: These help you identify sensitive data in your organization by using a function, the provided regular expressions in the portal, or by creating your own custom regular expressions.
- Trainable classifiers: These help you identify sensitive data by using examples you provide rather than RegEx-based pattern matches.
- Data classification...
