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Microsoft 365 Security Administration: MS-500 Exam Guide

By : Peter Rising
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Microsoft 365 Security Administration: MS-500 Exam Guide

By: Peter Rising

Overview of this book

The Microsoft 365 Security Administration (MS-500) exam is designed to measure your ability to perform technical tasks such as managing, implementing, and monitoring security and compliance solutions for Microsoft 365 environments. This book starts by showing you how to configure and administer identity and access within Microsoft 365. You will learn about hybrid identity, authentication methods, and conditional access policies with Microsoft Intune. Next, the book shows you how RBAC and Azure AD Identity Protection can be used to help you detect risks and secure information in your organization. You will also explore concepts, such as Advanced Threat Protection, Windows Defender ATP, and Threat Intelligence. As you progress, you will learn about additional tools and techniques to configure and manage Microsoft 365, including Azure Information Protection, Data Loss Prevention, and Cloud App Discovery and Security. The book also ensures you are well prepared to take the exam by giving you the opportunity to work through a mock paper, topic summaries, illustrations that briefly review key points, and real-world scenarios. By the end of this Microsoft 365 book, you will be able to apply your skills in the real world, while also being well prepared to achieve Microsoft certification.
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
1
Section 1: Configuring and Administering Identity and Access in Microsoft 365
7
Section 2: Implementing and Managing Threat Protection
13
Section 3: Information Protection in Microsoft 365
18
Section 4: Data Governance and Compliance in Microsoft 365
24
Section 5: Mock Exam and Assessment
25
Chapter 20: Mock Exam
26
Chapter 21: Mock Exam Answers

Using retention labels to protect personal data

In Chapter 11, Controlling Secure Access to Information Stored in Office 365, we showed you how to use sensitivity labels and policies to protect emails and documents in your Microsoft 365 environment. Retention labels can also be used to apply protection to personal data within Microsoft 365. With retention labels, you can automatically apply labels when sensitive information types are detected or allow your users to manually apply retention labels. Your retention labels can be set up to force the retention of the content you are applying the policy to for a specified retention period.

The way that retention labels are set to be published determines which Office 365 locations the labels will be applied to.

When a retention label is published to your end users, or auto-applied based on a query, your retention label policy can apply to the following locations:

  • Exchange Online
  • SharePoint Online
  • OneDrive
  • Office...