Azure Information Protection - Choosing subscriptions

Information Protection - Choosing the right subscription plan

Azure Information Protection is a great service that protects your documents held in the cloud and on-premise.  AIP can help your business become compliant with GDPR by enforcing classifications and behaviours on classified documents.  AIP can also encrypt your documents.



Information Protection has evolved over time and in Microsoft-land has had various names over the years however they pretty much refer to similar services.  So, if you see “Information protection”, “Azure Information Protection” ,  “Azure Rights Management” "AIP", or "RMS", "Information Protection", they pretty much equate to the same product but like rings in a tree stump they tell a story of it's evolution.

To use Information Protection, the service that gives you classification, labelling and protection your organisation must have at least one of the following:


  • Office 365 E3 and above
  • Azure Information Protection P1 or P2
  • Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS)
  • Secure Productive Enterprise (SPE)
  • RMS for individuals

The table below breaks down which subscriptions allow this:


Subscription
Includes IRM
Office 365 Business Essentials
No
Office 365 Business Premium
No
Office 365 Enterprise E1
No
Office 365 Education A1
No
Office 365 Enterprise E3
Yes
Office 365 Education A3
Yes
Office 365 Government G3
Yes
Office 365 Enterprise E4
Yes
Office 365 Education A4
Yes
Office 365 Government G4
Yes
Office 365 Enterprise E5
Yes
Office 365 Education A5
Yes
Office 365 Enterprise K1
No
SharePoint Plan 1
No
SharePoint Plan 2
No
Exchange Online Plan 1
No
Exchange Online Plan 2
No



You can purchase a separate agreement instead of a full subscription plan.  However if you already have a subscription use the table to work out your protection requirements and whether your plan meets your needs.  The deployment wizard will help you understand what you are licensed for:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/pricing/details/information-protection/ one of the steps will walk you through the process.  My advice is to give it a go after all you can select a small IT pilot group by using the on-boarding PowerShell commands, trial it before going live your business.

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