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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

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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)
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Part 1: Implementing and Managing Identity and Access
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Part 2: Implementing and Managing Threat Protection
13
Part 3: Implementing and Managing Information Protection
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Part 4: Managing Compliance Features in Microsoft 365

Configuring Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

When you move your organization’s apps and services to the cloud, you gain greater flexibility for your users and administrators. However, this is a double-edged sword as a traditional firewall cannot be wrapped around the Microsoft 365 platform. The need to protect your Microsoft 365 apps and services remains absolutely crucial though, and this is where Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps (MDA) comes in.

MDA is a Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB). CASBs provide you with the visibility and control to protect your organization’s cloud and third-party apps from cyber threats and shadow IT (which is where users feel they do not have the tools to do their jobs, so they look for other, unapproved applications). MDA supports functionalities such as log collection, API connectors, and reverse proxy.

This chapter will cover the following topics:

  • Planning your MDA implementation
  • Configuring MDA
  • Managing Cloud...