Difference Between Azure Information Protection (AIP) And Information Rights Management (IRM)?

Azure RMS (AIP vs IRM)

Azure Right Management Service is basically cloud based version of Right Management Service which Microsoft first introduced in Office 2003. Using Azure RMS, you can protect your document and emails on different devices including tablets, phones and PCs. Azure RMS uses encryption to secure all the documents and emails, only user get access to these documents after authentication and authorization. Azure RMS helps organization to protect their corporate data even out of the organization’s boundaries.

Azure RMS use different techniques to protect your data, previously Azure RMS was using the IRM (Information Rights Management) technique but now IRM become a component of AIP (Azure Information Protection), AIP vs IRM are both based on Azure RMS, See the diagram below to understand the RMS concept:

AIP vs IRM

Now the second most confusing question which comes into the mind of the support person is where to use IRM and where AIP. Before answering this question, I just want to let you know in my opinion…