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Microsoft 365 Security, Compliance, and Identity Administration

By : Peter Rising
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Book Image

Microsoft 365 Security, Compliance, and Identity Administration

5 (1)
By: Peter Rising

Overview of this book

The Microsoft 365 Security, Compliance, and Identity Administration is designed to help you manage, implement, and monitor security and compliance solutions for Microsoft 365 environments. With this book, you’ll first configure, administer identity and access within Microsoft 365. You’ll learn about hybrid identity, authentication methods, and conditional access policies with Microsoft Intune. Next, you’ll discover how RBAC and Azure AD Identity Protection can be used to detect risks and secure information in your organization. You’ll also explore concepts such as Microsoft Defender for endpoint and identity, along with threat intelligence. As you progress, you’ll uncover additional tools and techniques to configure and manage Microsoft 365, including Azure Information Protection, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-equipped to manage and implement security measures within your Microsoft 365 suite successfully.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
1
Part 1: Implementing and Managing Identity and Access
7
Part 2: Implementing and Managing Threat Protection
13
Part 3: Implementing and Managing Information Protection
17
Part 4: Managing Compliance Features in Microsoft 365

Configuring Safe Attachments options and policies

Safe Attachments is a Microsoft Defender for Office 365 feature that allows you to protect your users from opening attachments that may contain malicious code. This works through the use of a virtual environment that Safe Attachments uses to check the attachments in inbound emails. This takes place after the attachment has been scanned by Exchange Online anti-malware protection. Safe Attachments policies are configured either in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal or in PowerShell.

A Safe Attachments policy comprises the following:

  • Safe Attachments policy: Defines and sets actions for unknown malware detection and can be set to send messages with malware attachments to a specific email address. The policy will also determine whether to deliver messages if attachment scanning cannot be completed.
  • Safe Attachments rule: Defines the priority and filters to which recipients the policy will apply.

In this section, we...