Last Wednesday (25th of January) I presented for the Sogeti Microsoft Heroes Academy. My subject was Azure Information Protection. The presentation I used (in Dutch) can be viewed here: I was asked some questions on the subject and did some more research. Here goes: "Will using Azure Information Protection result in some form of vendor lock-in?" Well, you will be using Microsoft Azure.....Which is provided by Microsoft :-). But kidding aside, there are some scenario's available if … [Read more...]
Azure Information Protection – part two
We live in a world where information is readily available and can be shared with a simply press of a button. Protecting intellectual property (especially unstructured information like documents and emails) in this modern world is getting harder and harder for organizations. There are stories abound of employees simply copying files to an USB-stick or storing them on a personal web storage platform (Dropbox, OneDrive, you name them) or attaching documents to an email and mailing it to a personal … [Read more...]
Data loss prevention in Office 365
Data theft, data loss or data leakage is an increasing problem concerning enterprise information. According to Wikipedia data leakages occurs when "sensitive data is disclosed to unauthorized personnel either by malicious intent or inadvertent mistake". And such mistakes occur regularly. It's not uncommon these days to read a newspaper report on e-mails which were send to the wrong address or information which was inadvertently shared with the wrong audience. Microsoft addressed these data … [Read more...]