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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

In this chapter, we introduced you to the principles of managing insider risk in your Microsoft 365 environment. We learned that by implementing Customer Lockbox, we can control and monitor the access that Microsoft has to our data during a support request. We also learned that with Communication Compliance policies, we can be alerted when inappropriate or abusive communications take place between users in our organizations. Additionally, we showed you how implementing and managing Insider Risk Management policies can help prevent data from being leaked outside our organization by unwitting or malicious insiders and how with Information Barriers policies, we can create segments of users who are blocked from communicating with each other for regulatory reasons. Finally, we saw that implementing and managing PAM provides granular levels of control to Exchange Online tasks, roles, and role groups and provides just enough access instead of vulnerable standing permissions.

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