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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

Managing the MDA catalog

MDA includes a vast app catalog consisting of both native Microsoft 365 and third-party cloud applications. Microsoft assigns a risk score to each of these cloud apps, which you can assess to decide whether to sanction an app for use within your Microsoft 365 environment.

To access the app catalog, carry out the following steps in the MDA portal at https://security.microsoft.com:

  1. Navigate to Cloud Apps | Cloud app catalog. Each app has a risk score, and you can mark an app as sanctioned or unsanctioned using the two icons to the right of each app listing, under Actions:

Figure 10.13: Cloud app catalog

Figure 10.13: Cloud app catalog

  1. Clicking on the three dots to the right will also provide you with further actions you can take for the apps in the app catalog, such as tagging apps, app deployment options, and viewing the app score and app details. This is shown in the following screenshot; for more details, please refer to the Further...