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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

Planning for data lifecycle management

The complexity and volume of data that is stored and processed by organizations is ever increasing. Data can be stored within email messages, documents, Teams chat and channel messages, and more. It has never been more crucial to effectively manage and govern the data that you store in order to do the following:

  • Comply with internal policies or industry regulations and retain content for only as long as it is needed
  • Permanently delete old and unnecessary content to reduce risk in the event of a security breach or litigation
  • Ensure that your organization’s employees work only with content that is current and relevant

The starting point for compliance administrators when planning for data lifecycle management is retention. With retention labels and policies in Microsoft 365, you can take actions that will either retain or delete content in line with the set retention periods. This will result in the following outcomes...