Information protection use cases

Microsoft Purview Information Protection is commonly used to identify your data, supply protection for your data, and govern your data to minimize the risk of data leakage or oversharing. The features listed in the previous section provide you and your organization with the tools to achieve all of this.

The following diagram depicts the features of Information Protection that can be applied to sensitive data, and how they interact with each other:

Figure 2.1 – Safeguarding mechanisms that can be applied to protect sensitive information

We will present Example A. Let's say that we have produced a document containing sensitive information regarding one of the employees in your organization. It could range from HR-related information to specific information that could cause harm to the individual if said information wound up in the wrong person's mailbox.

This is a perfect example of where Information Protection...