Updated: July 23, 2020 (May 1, 2018)
Analyst ReportAzure Information Protection and Mobile Devices
- Azure Information Protection helps organizations classify, label, and protect documents and e-mails to prevent unauthorized access.
- The service has limited information protection capabilities outside of Windows, particularly on mobile platforms.
- To protect information effectively, organizations should start by securing Office-related hosted services and servers.
Azure Information Protection (AIP) is a Microsoft-hosted service that can help organizations comply with privacy and security standards and protect information, even when it has moved outside of an organization’s systems. AIP consists of two components that can operate independently but are most effective when integrated.
The classification component of AIP allows organizations to discover, classify, and label sensitive data to help comply with confidentiality, privacy, and disclosure policies and regulations.
The content protection component (Azure Rights Management Service, previously called Azure RMS) encrypts and manages decryption of protected data. Azure RM encryption can maintain control over access to content when the content is moved to a computer outside an organization’s control.
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