Mastering Identity and Access Management with Microsoft Azure - Second Edition

Understanding and using AIP capabilities for data at rest

The identification and detection of sensitive information that isn't actively moved is a very important component inside an information-protection solution. For this reason, Microsoft provides the Azure Information Protection scanner, which allows you to scan two typical file locations, File Shares and SharePoint Document libraries, as you can see in the following diagram:

Azure Information Protection scanner architecture and components

To explore the functionality of the AIP Scanner, we need to distribute some of our example documents to the following file locations:

1. Move the example ...