Information Rights Management or IRM is a subset of features and procedures to protect sensitive information from unauthorized access. As we know, SharePoint is document-driven, so everyone expects that platform can help you on protecting data with out-of-box options.
Hopefully SharePoint has it! Allowing you to add policies at Document Library level that persists even after the document was downloaded and isn’t at SharePoint context anymore, so I must say the IRM SharePoint is very powerful! Furthermore, it’s important to say that IRM policy will work only at library level!
Edited by me
Because I’ve had to understand the feature more deeply, considering what could be done by users that only have Read access to libraries, I’ve decided to test how the IRM feature works and then wrote a document trying to identify what are actions were available, depending on what you configure.
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