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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

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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 and configuring PIM

Azure AD PIM enables you to take greater control of your privileged accounts within Azure AD. So, what exactly is a privileged account? Essentially, this is any user account within your Microsoft 365 environment that grants elevated privileges above the scope of a standard user.

By default, Microsoft 365 standard user accounts are created without any sort of administrative privileges. However, it may be necessary to grant certain users elevated privileges as per their jobs. There are many built-in administrator roles within Microsoft 365 for this, including (but not limited to) the following:

  • Billing Administrator
  • Exchange Administrator
  • Global Administrator
  • Helpdesk Administrator
  • Service Administrator
  • SharePoint Administrator
  • Teams Administrator
  • User Administrator
  • Privileged Role Administrator

If you’d like to know more, please refer to the Further reading section at the end of this chapter.

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