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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

Implementing Microsoft Defender Application Guard, Application Control, and exploit protection

Now that you know how to manage and monitor MDE, let’s take a look at some of its associated features, starting with Microsoft Defender Application Guard.

Configuring Microsoft Defender Application Guard

Microsoft Defender Application Guard is a system designed to isolate devices so that malicious actors are unable to use their attack methodologies against them. It protects your company’s users on Windows, specifically on the Microsoft Edge browser, by isolating untrusted sites when users browse the internet.

Microsoft Defender Application Guard empowers Microsoft 365 security administrators to explicitly define the following categories:

  • Trusted websites
  • Trusted cloud resources
  • Trusted internal networks

A zero-trust methodology is employed to ensure that anything that is not defined in the preceding categories is considered untrusted and is blocked...