The Microsoft Purview Information Protection Ninja Training is here!

April 2024 Update

Short link: https://aka.ms/MIPNinja

The Microsoft Purview Information Protection Ninja Training is here!

We are very excited and pleased to announce this rendition of the Ninja Training Series. With all the other training out there, our team has been working diligently to get this content out there. There are several videos and resources, and the overall purpose of the Microsoft Purview Information Protection (formerly Microsoft Information Protection-MIP) Ninja training is to help you master this realm. We aim to get you up-to-date links to the community blogs, training videos, Interactive Guides, learning paths, and any other relevant documentation. 

To make it easier for you to start and advance your knowledge gradually without throwing you in deep waters, we split content in each offering into three levels: beginner, intermediate, and advanced.  

Please find the Microsoft Purview DLP Ninja Training here.

In addition, after each section, there will be a knowledge check based on the training material you’d have just finished! Since there’s a lot of content, the goal of these knowledge checks is to help you determine if you were able to get a few of the major key takeaways.  

There’ll be a fun certificate issued at the end of the training: Disclaimer: This is NOT an official Microsoft certification and only acts as a way of recognizing your participation in this training content. 

Lastly, this training will be updated one to two times a year to ensure you all have the latest and greatest material! 

If there's any topic you'd like for us to include and/or have any thoughts on this training, please let us know what you think below in the comments!

Microsoft Purview Information Protection 

Microsoft Purview Information Protection is not a product - it's not the next generation of Azure Information Protection. It is a framework, a suite of products, that work together to provide visualization of sensitive data… lifecycle protection for data and data loss prevention. 

The foundation of Information Protection is the ability to classify data by our Data Classification Service, please see the below constellation and how other functionalities all work together. 

Beginner Training

1. Public forums to contact the overall information protection team
   • Yammer 
   • Tech Community
2. Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Data Loss Prevention Roadmap (S)
   • Please check out the above site on the latest items on our public roadmap.
3. Introducing Microsoft Purview (V)
   • The above video gives you an overview of the Microsoft Purview name and components.
4. Learn about Microsoft Purview (D)
   • The above documentation gives an overview of Microsoft Purview and the supporting components.
5. How to secure your data with Microsoft Security (V)
   • The above video is a quick summary on how to protect your data.
6. Protect your sensitive data with Microsoft Purview (D)
   • The above documentation walks through a high-level overview of our Microsoft Purview Information Protection capability.
7. Classify data using sensitive info types with Microsoft Purview Information Protection (IG)
   • Please use the above interactive guide to see how sensitive information types work and how to create a custom sensitive information type.
8. Microsoft Purview Information Protection Framework (D)
   • Check out the above documentation to see how Microsoft Purview Information Protection uses 3 pillars to deploy an information protection solution.
9. Protect Data with Zero Trust (LP)
   • Zero Trust isn't a tool or product, it's an essential security strategy, with data at its core. Here, you'll learn how to identify and protect your data using a Zero Trust approach.
10. Built-in labeling vs the AIP Unified Labeling Client (D)
    • Both the Azure Information Protection (AIP) unified labeling client and labels built into Office apps use sensitivity labels that make it easier for users to protect their data; this document walks through the differences.
11. Microsoft Purview Information Protection support for PDF and GitHub (V) and Ignite Conversation (V)
    • The above videos walk through announcements regarding support for PDF and GitHub.
12. Adobe and Microsoft Purview Partnership (S)
    • The above Adobe site has different ways Adobe and Microsoft Purview work together
13. Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps integration (D)
    • Please visit the above documentation to learn more about how Microsoft Purview Information Protection integrates with Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

Beginner Knowledge Check

Intermediate Training

1. Retirement notification for the Azure Information Protection Unified Labeling add-in for Office (B)
• The above blog walks through the retirement notification and what that means for our customers.
2. Identify Content Using Trainable Classifiers in Microsoft Purview Information Protection (IG)
• Please use the above interactive guide to walk through the steps in creating Trainable Classifiers to identify content.
3. Identify Content Using Exact Data match-based classification in Microsoft Purview Information Protection (IG)
• Please use the above interactive guide to walk through the steps in using Exact data matching to identify content.
4. Complete advanced labeling with Microsoft Purview Information Protection (IG)
• Please use the above interactive guide to see the steps required for an auto-labeling policy.
5. Monitor the use of sensitive information in your organization with Microsoft Purview Information Protection (IG)
• Please use the above interactive guide to see how to use Content Explorer and Activity Explorer.
6. Create auto-labeling policies with Microsoft Purview Information Protection (IG)
• Please use the above interactive guide to see how to auto-labeling policies behave in different workstreams.
7. Create labels and label policies with Microsoft Purview Information Protection (IG)
• Please use the above interactive guide to see how to label policies behave in different workstreams.
8. Sites for testing documentation (S)
• The above site details locations where you can get sample data.
9. Strengthen protection to mitigate data overexposure in GenAI tools with data classification/labeling (B)
• The blog above goes into detail on OCR, its cost, and how it goes into the AI Realm with Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Data Loss Prevention.
10. Automatically Classify & Protect Documents & Data | Microsoft Purview Information Protection (V)
• This video details how to discover, classify, and protect sensitive information automatically, wherever it lives or travels with Microsoft Purview Information Protection.
11. Maximizing Data Protection with Copilot: Unveiling Hidden Risks and Prioritizing DLP Alerts (V)
• This video demos the seamless integration of Microsoft Purview and Copilot, enabling teams to swiftly prioritize DLP alerts and mitigate risks
12. Navigating the New Frontier: Information Security in the Era of M365 Copilot (B)
• The above blog goes into some insights identified by the team that are important to mention to individuals using Copilot and Microsoft Purview.
13. AI-Powered Data Classification: Microsoft Purview (V)
• This video details how to identify, classify, and protect information at scale using Microsoft Purview's AI-powered classifiers
14. Migrating from Windows Information Protection to Microsoft Purview (B)
• The above blog gives guidance on how to migrate from WIP to the Microsoft Purview stack.

Intermediate Knowledge Check

Advanced Training

1. Azure Information Protection unified labeling scanner (SBD)
• This episode will walk you through the Azure Information Protection (AIP) Scanner architecture, recommendation, installation and configuration.
2. Configuring Exact Data Matching for Accurate Data Classification (P)
• Check out the above PDF to get an understanding of how EDM works under the hood.
3. Configuring Exact Data Matching for Accurate Data Classification, Part 2: Advanced Scenarios (V)
• The above video walks you through advanced scenarios faced by customers and how to speak to those scenarios.
4. Configuring Exact Data Matching (EDM) for Accurate Classification, Part 3: Addressing Challenging Requirements (V)
• The above video walks you through additional requirements that you can face in multiple environments.
5. How to disable the Encrypt-Only feature in Outlook (D)
• This above documentation describes how to disable the Encrypt-Only option in Outlook.
6. Microsoft Purview Information Protection with 3rd parties (V) and SDK Setup (D)
• This video goes through our SDK offerings and the ability to apply MIP in third parties. 
7. EDM Post Tasks (EDM PT)
• The above link details how to help simplify the post tasks related to Exact Data Match.
8. Security admins can apply sensitivity labels in Microsoft Purview Information Protection to Microsoft Fabric workloads. (B)
• The above blog goes over how to apply built-in data security controls in Microsoft Fabric, establish uniform protection policies across multiple data sources, and enhance user risk signals in Insider Risk Management.
9. Check out the Microsoft Mechanics video to learn how we are extending our Data Security controls to Microsoft Fabric (V)
10. Protect sensitive data throughout its Copilot journey (B)
• The above details how the native integration enables organizations to leverage the power of GenAI when working with sensitive data as Copilot can understand and honor the controls such as encryption and provide comprehensive visibility into usage.
11. Labeling with Microsoft Purview Data Map now supports Dataverse, Azure Databricks, and Snowflake (B)
• Check out the above blog to see where Microsoft Purview Information Protection labels are expanding.
12. Use Sensitive Info Types to classify your structured data assets at column level (B)
• The above blog details how Microsoft Purview has extended the support of Sensitive info types (SITs) to Azure and 3P data assets in the Data Map/Catalog.
13. Microsoft Purview Exact Data Match (EDM) support for multi-token corroborative evidence (B)
• The above blog goes into the new feature that improves the accuracy and effectiveness of EDM detection.
14. Security for AI: How to Secure and govern AI usage (B)

• The above blog goes into details how AI usage can be secured; Microsoft Purview information Protection is used.

Advanced Knowledge Check

Once you’ve finished the training and the knowledge checks, please go to our attestation portal to generate your certificate; you'll see it in your inbox within 3-5 business days.

We hope you enjoy this training!