Container Labels vs File Labels in Microsoft Purview (The Mistake Everyone Makes)

You labeled your SharePoint site Highly Confidential. Are the files inside it protected? No, and in this video I prove it live. Container labels protect the room: privacy, guest access and external sharing for the site, Team and Microsoft 365 group. File labels protect the document: markings and encryption that travel with the file. They're independent, and only one of them survives a download. In this video: 0:00 The mistake everyone makes 0:39 Container labels vs file labels 1:45 Microsoft says it in the product 3:30 Labeling the SharePoint site 4:51 The proof: the files stay unlabeled 5:52 Applying a file label 6:51 Labeling files at scale 7:46 Three gotchas All demos use a fictional company (Harborline Freight) in my own lab tenant. No real data. I'm Banu, a data engineer working with Microsoft Purview data security. New videos every week. #MicrosoftPurview #SensitivityLabels #DataSecurity