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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

Summary

This chapter introduced the principles of managing regulatory and privacy requirements using the features and solutions available in Microsoft Purview. We learned how to plan an organizational compliance journey in adherence to regulatory standards such as GDPR. We also learned about the capabilities of the Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager and how it can be used to work with improvement actions, assessments, and assessment templates to improve your compliance posture and score. Finally, we learned how to use Microsoft Priva to manage our privacy requirements in Microsoft 365 and how to create, manage, and edit policies to minimize and manage risks such as data exposure. We also examined how, with Subject Rights Requests, we can respond to requests from data subjects regarding any personal data that our organization may be storing about them.

The next chapter will cover the principles of managing the Insider Risk Management controls and policies in Microsoft Purview and...