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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 and using Activity explorer

Activity explorer is a feature available in the Data classification section of the Microsoft Purview compliance portal that allows administrators to monitor what is being done with their labeled content. Thirty days’ worth of content is stored in Activity explorer:

Figure 11.60: Activity explorer

Figure 11.60: Activity explorer

Activity explorer is part of the premium features of Microsoft Purview. The configuration steps are minimal and only relate to the available licensing you have in your tenant. Each Microsoft 365 account that accesses and uses data classification features such as Activity explorer needs to have one of the following licenses assigned:

  • Microsoft 365 (E5)
  • Office 365 (E5)
  • Advanced Compliance (E5) add-on
  • Advanced Threat Intelligence (E5) add-on
  • Microsoft 365 E5/A5 Info Protection & Governance
  • Microsoft 365 E5/A5 Compliance

Further, to use Activity explorer, you must be assigned one...