The gist of this article to me is not about OpenText but about Azure. As many cloud providers of Content Services a utilize Azure as their platform of choice (like Docuware) this information is good to know. In today’s world it is all about security.

It’s never been easier to share your information and collaborate — and likewise, it has never been riskier, costlier, and more embarrassing to experience a data leak. These two competing realities create a real dilemma for IT: How do you maintain productivity and foster collaboration among a widely dispersed workforce while keeping control of your most valuable and sensitive content?

Data leaks can be extremely damaging to an organization’s reputation and bottom line. Every week, news reports detail multiple, costly document leaks that expose private and proprietary information, events that the organization could conceivably prevent by protecting the content with policy-driven permissions and strong data encryption. These are risks that can be substantially mitigated by purposely driving security controls into how you create and govern your content.

Microsoft’s answer to this dilemma is Azure Information Protection (AIP). Deeply integrated with Office 365 apps, AIP controls what content users can see and how they can use and share it with anyone inside — or outside — the organization. And now, OpenText™ Extended ECM broadens its best-in-class integration with Office 365 to elegantly protect content transparently to the user.

AIP is built into all Office 365 applications to enforce strict policy controls and encrypt digital content according to pre-built policies managed by the organization. Using Microsoft Unified Labeling, users can determine what policy to apply to the content. Information governance practitioners can also configure Office to suggest a policy based on the cues in the content, such as the presence of sensitive or proprietary data. The document is subsequently encrypted to ensure that those controls are strictly enforced, including when being edited by Microsoft Office applications and preventing attempts to view the content if it leaks to the wrong individuals. AIP also serves as an infrastructure to manage real-time access to the content, current policy, and expiration. Read On: