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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 for Hybrid Identity

This book aims to act as a general administration guide for security, compliance, identity, management, and privacy administrators of Microsoft 365 environments, whether they are cloud-only or hybrid. You will learn about umbrella terms for technology principles, such as Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Purview, and Microsoft Entra, and understand their purpose and how they relate to each other. You will see how to access, plan, and configure these technologies via administrative portals, as well as by using PowerShell. In this first chapter, we begin by focusing on identity.

Configuring a Microsoft 365 hybrid environment requires an understanding of your organization’s identity needs. This will enable you to plan and deploy the correct Azure Active Directory (AD) authentication and synchronization method within your environment. This chapter discusses how you can plan your identity methodology and describes the process of monitoring and understanding the events recorded by Azure AD Connect.

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to determine your business needs, analyze on-premises identity infrastructure, and develop a plan for hybrid identity. You will understand how to design and implement authentication and application management solutions, how to enhance data security through strong identity, and how to analyze events and configure alerts in Azure AD Connect.

This chapter covers the following topics:

  • Planning your hybrid environment
  • Authentication methods in Azure AD
  • Synchronization methods with Azure AD Connect
  • Azure AD Connect cloud sync
  • Event monitoring and troubleshooting in Azure AD Connect