Category: Data Loss Prevention
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Microsoft Purview Data Protection – Creating an Endpoint DLP Policy – Video
In my previous video blog I had promised my next video was going to be the administrator and end user experience. Unfortunately, I have made a liar of myself. Before I do that video, I wanted instead to demonstrate the process for creating an endpoint DLP policy. This will allow me to demonstrate both the…
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Microsoft Purview Data Protection – Protect your Sensitive Information in Remote Desktop Sessions
Believe it or not, it isn’t uncommon data loss to occur through the use of remote desktop services. One wouldn’t think this could happen often as you can actually configure group policies and Intune policies to block the flow of data across the remote desktop protocol (RDP). Organizations often don’t do this as it can…
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Microsoft Purview Data Protection – Creating your First DLP Policy – Video
For my first post of the year I’m actually going to point you to my YouTube channel. I created an overview of Microsoft Purview’s Data Loss Prevention feature and a walkthrough to create your first DLP Policy. Just a quick overview of a DLP policy and what the video will cover: The intent of a…
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Microsoft Purview Data Protection – Protecting Sensitive Data from Third-Party Apps
Recently, I released a post concerning protecting data against third-party cloud storage. This post is similar but focuses on applications installed on the workstation. A common use case is blocking sensitive data from being accessible for applications like Dropbox. The argument could be said that the organization could just block the application from being installed,…
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Microsoft Purview Data Protection – Configure the Restricted App Groups
A common method for data to exit an organization’s control is through third-party applications. These applications can be cloud storage like Dropbox or Google Drive. They can also be applications such as Grammarly with access to a cloud infrastructure. To support the control of this, it is possible to create Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies…