Microsoft brings Data Loss Prevention Policy Tips to OneDrive mobile apps

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Onedrive DLP Tips

Microsoft today announced that they have extended the Office 365 Data Loss Prevention Policy Tips to OneDrive mobile apps for Android, iOS and Universal Windows. DLP Policy tips are contextual, user-facing notifications that educate users when they’re about to send, share or work with sensitive data, such as credit card, passport or driver’s license numbers. With this latest update, Data Loss Prevention policies, related to content stored in SharePoint and OneDrive for Business, are now viewable on mobile devices.

With Data Loss Prevention, documents stored in OneDrive for Business are scanned for sensitive information and evaluated against company policies configured in Office 365. As users work with documents in the OneDrive mobile app, they will see a policy tip for documents that contain sensitive information. Depending on the policies and user action, the tips may provide information about what triggered a policy violation or options to override and submit a false positive report if access to the content is blocked.

Update your OneDrive client to have this new feature,

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