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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
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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 external identities

There will often be situations where you need to invite guest users to collaborate within your organization’s Microsoft 365 environment. This can be achieved with Azure AD B2B collaboration. The external identities feature allows you to securely share your organization’s apps and services with external users and maintain complete control.

This is achieved with an invitation process that allows external users to access your Microsoft 365 environment with their own credentials. When the invitee accepts the invitation, they are set up in Azure AD as a B2B user object as a Guest.

While B2B collaboration is enabled by default, admins have significant control over the settings. The following steps deal with how a guest user is created:

  1. Go to the Azure portal at https://aad.portal.azure.com or the Entra admin center at https://entra.microsoft.com and log in with admin privileges. Navigate to Azure Active Directory ...