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Configure and manage autolabeling policies for sensitivity labels

Configure and manage autolabeling policies for sensitivity labels

Hinted at it a few times, but let's talk about auto-labeling. This means that the system helps apply labels for you. And this can work in two ways, which is automatic, as in the system finds content that meets certain criteria and labels it behind the scenes, or near-ish, real-time. is recommended and the system will flag the content and prompt the user, we suggest this, you apply this label, what do you want to do? And then the user can accept or ignore. Now, why do we need this? Should we be trusting that people will label themselves? Well, I think as we all know, in security, humans are fallible and they might forget to label a document or not realize certain content is sensitive and auto-labeling acts as a safety net. I can also handle things at scale because you can imagine labeling thousands and thousands of files in SharePoint or Exchange that were uploaded before you rolled out sensitivity labels. It's not very realistic that a human's going to do that manually. So, for…

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