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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

Configuring a Microsoft Defender for Identity Solution

As you learned in Chapter 1, Planning for Hybrid Identity, the default identity method in Microsoft 365 is cloud-only. However, very few organizations are in the fortunate position to leverage cloud-only identities. Start-up businesses and organizations with minimal infrastructure find adopting this method easier than those with more complex infrastructure and a long-term reliance on on-premises Active Directory and legacy applications. The latter will likely leverage some form of hybrid identity strategy.

Organizations with this challenge need to consider how to extend the cloud-based protection features included in Microsoft 365 to their on-premises Active Directory domain controllers. This is possible with Microsoft Defender for Identity (MDI), which was formerly known as Azure Advanced Threat Protection or Azure ATP. MDI is a Microsoft 365 cloud-based solution that leverages signals from your on-premises Active Directory...