Microsoft introduces Azure Information Protection, coming in preview next month

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Published onJune 22, 2016

published onJune 22, 2016

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Last year, Microsoftacquired Israeli information protection company Secure Islands, explaining at the time that the company’s technology would soon be integrated with Azure Rights Management Service to work alongside the data classification capabilities of Office 365 and Windows. Today, just a few months after this acquisition, Microsoft is introducingAzure Information Protection, a new service that combines Microsoft Azure Rights Management and Secure Islands’ technology to makes it simpler to classify and protect information, even as it travels outside of an organization.

In ablog poston the company’s Enterprise Mobility and Security Blog, Microsoft Partner Director for Information Protection Dan Plastina explains that as sensitive information can sometimes escape a company’s corporate network through all the employees’ devices, Microsoft wants to enable secure productivity in the enterprise through an “identity-driven approach to security”:

In this new approach, protecting employee identity is the foundation of how Microsoft on-premises products and cloud services help you secure and manage devices, apps and data. Enterprise Mobility Suite is a great example of this, and Azure Information Protection is yet another example of this identity-driven approach to security.

If you’re not familiar with it, the Enterprise Mobility Suite is Microsoft’s cloud solution built to deliver apps and data access across all devices to allow employees to work securely on any device. The new Azure Information Protection is a complementary solution which will allow companies to define how their employees can classify their documents and emails during their work, track where sensitive documents are traveling and more. Plastina shared the full list of capabilities below:

You can watch the above video to know more about the solution, and Plastina added that current Azure RMS customers will “continue to use the same capabilities with no change to their service until the General Availability of Azure Information Protection later this calendar year”. Lastly, a public preview of Azure Information Protection will be available next month and you can alreadysign up to preview the service.

Radu Tyrsina

Radu Tyrsina has been a Windows fan ever since he got his first PC, a Pentium III (a monster at that time).

For most of the kids of his age, the Internet was an amazing way to play and communicate with others, but he was deeply impressed by the flow of information and how easily you can find anything on the web.

Prior to founding Windows Report, this particular curiosity about digital content enabled him to grow a number of sites that helped hundreds of millions reach faster the answer they’re looking for.

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