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Protect and control your key information assets through information classification

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  • Version: 2.0
  • Category: Document
  • Language: English

Information Classification Whitepaper

  • Due to increased regulation, the move the Cloud to save cost and bring agility as a result of the modernization of IT, the Consumerization of IT (CoIT) and the “Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD), the explosion of information with dispersed enterprise data, the Social Enterprise and its applications enabling new collaboration, etc., organization of all sizes are facing growing needs to protect and control sensitive information. Questions inevitably arise: How to appropriately identify sensitive information? And then in turn how apply the right level of control for maintaining the security and the privacy of the sensitive data?In this context, this document discusses information classification as the foundation of the cross-organization effort, the suggested approach to sustain such an effort and thus to handle and manage information assets on that basis, as well as the Microsoft services, products, and technologies to consider in this context, such as Azure Information Protection, to implement a relevant information classification and enforcement infrastructure, which constitutes the starting point for an effective information protection (IP) system.

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FileSize
Information-classification-framework.xlsx
SHA1: 44665d5495470ce0a452c6d2b68ddd85955dc38b
69 KB
Protect-your-key-assets-through-information-classification.docx
SHA1: 611945c821a1834d405dc2939c3980da238f6e39
2.34 MB

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System Requirements

Operating Systems: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2

  • Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016

Installation Instructions

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