Overview
Protect data wherever it lives
- Experience built-in labeling and information protection in Microsoft 365 apps and services.
- Get accurate classification with AI-powered classifiers, exact data match, and other capabilities.
- Configure and manage policies and view analytics across on-premises file shares, Microsoft 365 apps and services, and desktop and mobile devices in one place.
- Extend a consistent protection experience to popular non-Microsoft apps and services with an SDK.
Product features
Information Protection features
Enable discovery and protection of sensitive data across your digital estate, including Microsoft 365 and Azure clouds; on-premises, hybrid, and third-party clouds; and SaaS apps.
Scan across data at rest and in use to classify it across on-premises file shares, SharePoint, OneDrive, Exchange, Microsoft Teams, endpoints, and non-Microsoft cloud apps.
Apply labels to identify sensitive information or proprietary data with ready-to-use trainable classifiers and hundreds of sensitive information types.
Gain a better understanding of user activities related to your sensitive data and how that data is being used.
Take a deeper view into documents containing sensitive data and get the context you need to create data protection policies.
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Microsoft 365 E5 Compliance
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Information Protection is a part of the Microsoft 365 E5 Compliance suite
Customers currently licensed with Enterprise Mobility Security + Office E3, Microsoft 365 E3, or a version of these suites that does not include Microsoft Teams, are eligible to purchase or try E5 Compliance. You must be a global, compliance, or billing admin to initiate this trial. If you don’t have the prerequisite product or role, contact Sales.
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[1] IBM, Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023.
[2] UNCTAD, Data Protection and Privacy Legislation Worldwide.
[3] LayerX, Revealing GenAI’s True Data Exposure Risk, Research Report June 2023.
[4] The Forrester Wave™: Data Security Platforms, Q1 2023, Heidi Shey with Amy DeMartine, Sarah Morane, and Christine Turley, March 2023.
[5] KuppingerCole Analysts, Market Compass, Secure Collaboration, Anne Bailey, May 31, 2022.
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