Protecting sensitive organizational data is crucial in today’s digital world, especially with the rise of AI technology. Unfortunately, only 22% of organizations feel extremely confident in their ability to keep data secure when integrating generative AI technologies. Data security teams are facing the challenge of securing data across various access points as employees work from different devices, browsers, and locations.
Microsoft Purview Information Protection is continuously enhancing its capabilities to protect data in modern data estates. With recent classification improvements and additions, organizations can better protect sensitive data, extend support for protected documents, and strengthen protections for critical documents.
Enhancements include extended labeling and document protections for Office files and PDFs in SharePoint, improved auto-labeling capabilities for OneDrive and SharePoint, and label inheritance for Teams meetings based on file sensitivity.
Additionally, dynamic watermarking has been introduced to provide more robust document protections with sensitivity labels. Furthermore, advancements in OCR and named entity sensitive information types have expanded support for detecting sensitive information in documents, such as disease names and physical addresses.
To make it easier for users to access protected documents, support for protected PDFs on mobile devices and web browsers has been broadened. Moreover, Microsoft Purview Information Protection now offers support for protected documents in CoPilot Studio and Fabric
