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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

Understanding the MDI architecture

MDI is a combination of services and components that work together to provide your Microsoft 365 hybrid deployment with comprehensive protection from modern threats and attacks. You can view the MDI architecture at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-for-identity/architecture. Here, sensors are installed on AD FS servers and domain controllers. These sensors send signals to Microsoft 365 Defender about Active Directory entities, parsed traffic, and Windows events and traces.

MDI can function to protect your hybrid identity by leveraging the following three key components:

  • The Microsoft 365 Defender portal, in which you create your MDI instance, as well as monitor and address any threats that have been reported.
  • The MDI sensor, which is installed on your on-premises domain controllers and is used to monitor domain controller traffic. It can also be installed on your AD FS servers to directly monitor network traffic and authentication...