As businesses rely more on mobile and cloud systems, greater emphasis is placed on protecting their information while retaining the productivity benefits. Microsoft is launching a new service to help businesses guard their data as it travels between devices and servers. Azure Information Protection builds on both the existing Microsoft Azure Rights Management (Azure RMS) and the company's acquisition last year of information protection business Secure Islands. The service will allow enterprises to use policies to classify and label data in intuitive ways based on the source, context and content of the data. Classification can be fully automatic, user-driven or based… [Continue Reading]