Know your data, Protect your data, prevent data loss, and govern your data.

 

Before you define an information and protection strategy it's important to check if your organization has clear understanding of the following. 

Data Location Awareness

  • Understand where your business-critical and sensitive data resides. Just trying to identify the data landscape can be a huge task itself. 
Data Control
  • Maintain control over data as it move within and outside the organization
  • Consider scenarios like sharing data with customers, partners, or copying it to mobile devices.
Unified Solutions

  • Do you use multiple solutions to classify, label, and protect sensitive data? many organizations do, which can create challenges in identifying coverage gaps.
    
Microsoft's approach to information protection and governance is centered around four principles:


1) Know Your Data:
  • Understand your data landscape.
  • Identify important data across your hybrid environment.
2) Protect Your Data:

    Apply flexible protection actions, including:
  • Encryption
  • Access restrictions
  • Visual markings
3) Prevent Data Loss:
  • Detect risky behaviour.
  • Prevent accidental oversharing of sensitive information.
4) Govern Your Data:
  • Automatically retain, delete, and store data and records in a compliant manner.

Knowing your data, protecting your data, preventing data loss, and governing your data are outcomes powered and enriched by Microsoft's intelligent platform, which delivers:

Knowing Your Data: A common approach to classification, regardless of data location.

Protecting Your Data: Unified policy configuration and management experience for IT.

Preventing Data Loss: Analytics dashboard to monitor and remediate issues.

Governing Your Data: APIs enabling partners to extend information protection and governance capabilities to their own apps and services.


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