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.
Market statistics
Protecting sensitive data in the age of AI
Pricing
Protect your business with comprehensive data security and compliance solutions
Microsoft 365 E5 Compliance
user/month
Annual commitment
GST extra as applicable
Annual commitment
GST extra as applicable
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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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Get built-in labels and protection for Microsoft 365 apps, Teams, Fabric, Copilot, and other services.
- [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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