{"id":89574,"date":"2019-06-25T09:20:29","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T16:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/security\/blog\/\/?p=89574"},"modified":"2023-05-15T22:57:21","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T05:57:21","slug":"3-strategies-building-information-protection-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/security\/blog\/2019\/06\/25\/3-strategies-building-information-protection-program\/","title":{"rendered":"3 strategies for building an information protection program"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five years ago, we started on a journey to update and simplify information protection at Microsoft. We had a manual data classification process that our users didn\u2019t use effectively and didn\u2019t work with our data storage or database technology. We had to find ways to re-classify data and build effective tools while protecting our most important asset, customer, and employee information.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve learned a lot about data protection and tools and today we\u2019re sharing some of our best practices for:<\/p>\n