Data Loss Prevention in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business
Data Loss Prevention in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business
Data Loss Prevention (DLP) capabilities protect your data where it is stored, when it is moved, and when it is shared. These protection features are currently offered in Exchange, Outlook and Outlook on the web, but are now being extended to OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online, offering broader protection of your data wherever it lives.
IT admins will see new controls in your Office 365 Compliance Center, allowing you to easily set up DLP policies for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business. IT admins also can configure their policy tips so that users can interact with the pertinent policy, for example, providing a business justification to override the policy or reporting a false positive.
New features will be rolled out over the coming months, but below are some of the key features that are available now.
- Create automated policies with any of the available built-in sensitive information
- Detect external sharing and apply appropriate actions
- Cope DLP policies to specific SharePoint or OneDrive sites
- Policies based on document properties (metadata)
- Block or restrict access to the sensitive content
- Customizable Policy tips and user notifications via policy tip and email
- Admin-facing Incident reports and reporting
To learn more about DLP in SharePoint and OneDrive for Business, below is a comprehensive overview of the information protection of how DLP helps protect against data loss.
As sharing and collaboration evolve across applications and devices, DLP is in place to help protect your data, with the goal of protecting information from when documents are initially created to when they are stored or shared.
