Microsoft 365 Compliance: A Practical Guide to Managing Risk

© Erica Toelle 2021

E. ToelleMicrosoft 365 Compliance https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5778-4_7

7. Information Barriers

Erica Toelle¹  

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Seattle, WA, USA

 

Information barriers are ethical walls or policies that an admin can configure to allow individuals or groups to communicate or prevent individuals or groups from communicating with one another. For example, in a school environment, you might have primary school students who are the younger children and secondary school students who are the older children. You want to prevent the younger children from speaking or communicating with the older children, but you still wish both groups to talk with teachers. Figure 7-1 visualizes the relationship.

Figure 7-1

The information barrier relationship between ...