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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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What is AD RMS?

Microsoft took their first approach to information rights management (IRM) by introducing Windows Rights Management Services (Windows RMS) with Windows Server 2003. This was fully compliant with Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-1. The updated version of Windows RMS was renamed AD RMS and reintroduced with Windows Server 2008. It continued to grow with features and was included in later versions. Microsoft also released Azure Information Protection (AIP), which can be used in hybrid/cloud-only environments to protect confidential data.

As I stated earlier, AD RMS is not the solution for all data security requirements in an organization. There are other areas we need to secure along with data, such as networks, identities, roles, and permissions; traditional perimeter-based defense is no longer valid when it comes to the protection of data and identities. We have to embrace the zero-trust security approach to fight against modern threats. We need...

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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