With sensitivity labels in Office 365, you can classify and help protect your sensitive content, while making sure that your productivity and ability to collaborate isn’t hindered. In the Office apps, a sensitivity label simply appears as a tag on an email or document.
You can use sensitivity labels to:
Enforce protection settings such as encryption or watermarks on labeled content. For example, your users can apply a Confidential label to a document or email, and that label can encrypt the content and apply a Confidential watermark.
Protect content in Office apps across different platforms and devices. Sensitivity labels work in Office apps on Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android. Support for Office web apps is coming soon.
Prevent sensitive content from leaving your organization on devices running Windows, by using endpoint protection in Microsoft Intune. After a sensitivity label has been applied to content that resides on a Windows device, endpoint protection can prevent that content from being copied to a third-party app, such as Twitter or Gmail, or being copied to removable storage, such as a USB drive.
Extend sensitivity labels to third-party apps and services. With the Microsoft Information Protection SDK, third-party apps on Windows, Mac, and Linux can read sensitivity labels and apply protection settings. Support for apps on iOS and Android is coming soon.
Classify content without using any protection settings. You can also simply assign a classification to content (like a sticker) that persists and roams with the content as it's used and shared. You can use this classification to generate usage reports and see activity data for your sensitive content. Based on this information, you can always choose at a later time to apply protection settings.
Office apps on Windows
In Office apps on devices running Windows, sensitivity labels appear on the Sensitivity button, on the Home tab on the Ribbon. The label applied also appears in the Status bar at the bottom of the window.
Office apps on iOS
In Office apps on iOS devices, sensitivity labels appear on the Sensitivity button, on the Home tab on the Ribbon. The label applied also appears in the Status bar at the bottom of the window.
Office apps on Android
In Office apps on Android devices, sensitivity labels appear on the Sensitivity button, on the Home tab on the Ribbon. The label applied also appears in the Status bar at the bottom of the window.
In all of these cases, sensitivity labels in Office 365 can help you take the right actions on the right content. With sensitivity labels, you can classify data across your organization and enforce protection settings based on that classification.