Securing your data in Microsoft 365

Are you concerned about how your data stored in Microsoft 365 is secured?

One of Microsoft 365’s great strengths is the ability to collaborate on content with people inside and outside of your organisation. This moves beyond the traditional email method of sharing content by allowing your users to share content directly from their OneDrive, a SharePoint site or Teams.

This collaboration opportunity offers many benefits in terms of efficiency, accuracy, time optimisation and so on but how do you ensure that your organisation’s data stays safe?

Introducing Microsoft Purview Information Protection

Microsoft Purview Information Protection is a set of tools available in Microsoft 365 that allows you to understand, classify and protect your sensitive data.  Its key capabilities include:

• Classify Content
  Understand what sensitive information is, how you can detect it, and how it can be used to apply security and retention controls.
  
  
• Sensitivity Labels
  Classify and protect your files, meetings, and groups.Automatically restrict access to content, securing access to files, applying security controls to meetings and secure Microsoft 365 groups.
  
  
• Data Loss Prevention
  Automatically identifying when your sensitive information is being shared inappropriately, taking action to alert and protect the sensitive information.