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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

Planning and implementing MDE

The MDE security platform enables organizations to investigate and respond to advanced threats that target their enterprise networks. It does so by providing information about advanced attack detections based on behavioral patterns. The threats detected by MDE are interpreted in terms of a forensic timeline. This timeline is then used to build and maintain a threat intelligence knowledge base.

This is achieved by using endpoint behavioral sensors that collect signals from the Windows operating system and send that data to MDE. Then, cloud security analytics use machine learning techniques to translate the collected data into insights and provide recommendations on how to resolve advanced threats. Finally, threat intelligence activities are carried out by Microsoft hunters and security experts. This allows MDE to recognize the tools and methods employed by malicious actors and to alert administrators when similar behavior is detected.

MDE provides...