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Published inNov 2021
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Dishan Francis
Dishan Francis
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Dishan Francis

Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
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Azure Information Protection (AIP)

AIP is a cloud-based solution that helps to discover, classify, and protect sensitive data in a cloud or hybrid environment. AIP uses labels to classify data. Once data has been classified, we can protect the data using policies.

Data classification

A famous quote from former US Secretary of State Dean Rusk is "If you protect your paper clips and diamonds with equal vigor, you'll soon have more paper clips and few diamonds." On that particular occasion, he was talking about national security, but when it comes to data protection, the same statement is true. If we need to protect sensitive data, first we need to identify sensitive data. In an infrastructure, this sensitive data can be in different formats and in different locations, such as applications, network shares, and devices. Once sensitive data is identified, we can protect it using relevant services and policies. This is why data classification is so important. AIP...

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Published in: Nov 2021Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781801070393

Author (1)

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Dishan Francis

Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
Read more about Dishan Francis