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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)
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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

Setting up sensitivity labels and policies

The core functionality of Microsoft Information Protection is based on sensitivity labels and policies. Microsoft 365 administrators can define sensitivity labels in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. These labels can be configured with protection settings and visual markings (such as watermarks). Furthermore, depending on your subscriptions, they may also include conditions (using the SITs described in the previous section) so that a label can be automatically applied.

Once labels have been created, policies may then be defined in order to determine which users will be able to see and use the labels within their Microsoft Office applications.

Now, let’s take a look at how sensitivity labeling works, starting with setting up labels from the Microsoft Purview Compliance portal.

Setting up labels

To create a label in Microsoft Purview, complete the following steps:

  1. Navigate to Information protection, as shown...