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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

Implementing and managing Information Barriers policies

With Microsoft Purview Information Barriers, organizations can restrict two-way communication between users and groups. This can be applied to Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint. Implementing Information Barriers is a process usually utilized in organizations that are strictly regulated. The aim is to avoid the possibility of a conflict of interest occurring.

Information Barriers is implemented in the form of segments and policies, which, when in place, will have the effect that one set of specified users, who should not be allowed to communicate with another set of specified users, will not be able to find, chat with, or call those users. Essentially, Information Barriers is there to prevent unauthorized communication. To use Information Barriers in your Microsoft 365 tenant, you can use the following subscriptions:

  • Microsoft 365 E5
  • Office 365 E5
  • Office 365 Advanced Compliance add-on (no longer available...