Information protection policies

The page on Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps information protection policies provides guidance on how to detect and prevent the external sharing of sensitive data, how to detect externally shared confidential data, and how to detect and encrypt sensitive data at rest. It outlines the steps to create file policies that enforce a range of automated processes for information protection, including continuous compliance scans, legal eDiscovery tasks, and DLP for sensitive content shared publicly. The policies can be set to monitor any file type based on metadata filters such as access level and file type.

There are many examples of useful information protection policies to use on this page.

Information protection policies – Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps | Microsoft Learn