

The first one is enabling the external email tag in Exchange Online. There are basically two options, which you should both implement. We can prevent that by adding an external email warning or tag external emails. Typically users find them also hard to recognize and click too often on the links in the emails. The phishing emails are getting better every year making it hard to block them up front. In Outlook, only the message being composed, not the message history, is considered in the scan, and subject line isn't included in the scan.Phishing emails are one the biggest security threads at the moment. In the Word desktop app, removing sensitive content does not remove the term from tracked changes or other versions of the document. In the Word desktop app, sensitive terms in unposted comments aren't scanned (this only applies to the new comments experience). We're working to reduce this delay over time. The length of the delay will vary depending on the amount of content being evaluated and the speed of your internet connection, and can last from a few seconds to several minutes.

When you open or edit sensitive content, there might be a delay before a label is automatically applied or recommended.

Objects other than cells, such as PivotTables or SmartArt (Excel)Ĭells with formula or calculation output (Excel)Ĭomments, headers, footers, footnotes, endnotes, and textboxes (Word for the web)Ĭomments, headers, footers, footnotes, endnotes, and textboxes (Excel) Sensitive information contained in certain objects won't be detected. Examples include: We're working on extending this sample size to cover more of a workbook. For example, in Excel for the web, the sample limit is about 2 MB and 2000 cells. In Excel, a subset of content in workbook cells is sampled for evaluation, and sensitive information outside that sample might be missed. This means that it's possible automatic sensitivity labeling may not always be able to complete.įor additional coverage, administrators should configure automatic sensitivity labeling for content at rest with Azure Information Protection scanner and Microsoft Cloud Application Security. Office does not prevent users from saving or closing files or sending email messages before sensitive terms have been detected.
