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Microsoft Information Protection Administrator SC-400 Certification Guide

By : Shabaz Darr, Viktor Hedberg
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Book Image

Microsoft Information Protection Administrator SC-400 Certification Guide

2 (1)
By: Shabaz Darr, Viktor Hedberg

Overview of this book

Cloud technologies have massively increased the amount of data being produced and the places in which this data is stored. Without proper planning and discipline in configuring information protection for your data, you may be compromising information and regulatory compliance. Microsoft Information Protection Administrator SC-400 Certification Guide begins with an overview of the SC-400 exam, and then enables you to envision, implement, and administer the Information Protection suite offered by Microsoft. The book also provides you with hands-on labs, along with the theory of creating policies and rules for content classification, data loss prevention, governance, and protection. Toward the end, you'll be able to take mock tests to help you prepare effectively for the exam. By the end of this Microsoft book, you'll have covered everything needed to pass the SC-400 certification exam, and have a handy, on-the-job desktop reference guide.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Section 1: Exam Overview and Introduction to Information Protection
4
Section 2: Implementing Information Protection
9
Section 3: Implementing Data Loss Prevention
13
Section 4: Implementing Information Governance

What is Information Protection?

Microsoft Purview Information Protection brings together the features of Azure Information Protection with the Information Governance features of Microsoft 365. Microsoft Purview Information Protection helps your organization to do the following:

  • Identify your data.
  • Provide protection for your data.
  • Govern your data.

We will explore each of these in the following sections.

Identify your data

To understand the data landscape in your organization across a hybrid or cloud environment, Microsoft Purview Information Protection offers the following capabilities:

  • Sensitive information types: These help you identify sensitive data in your organization by using a function, the provided regular expressions in the portal, or by creating your own custom regular expressions.
  • Trainable classifiers: These help you identify sensitive data by using examples you provide rather than RegEx-based pattern matches.
  • Data classification...