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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

Configuring alert options

Azure AD Identity Protection is only effective if the available alerting options are correctly configured, the alerts are being diligently reviewed by administrators, and the appropriate steps are being taken where needed. Identity Protection has two notification settings that can be configured to alert administrators of risk detections within Microsoft 365. These are Users at risk detected alerts and Weekly digest. Let's look at each of these in turn.

Users at risk detected alerts

This alert can be found under the Notify section of the Azure AD Identity Protection pane and can be used to configure an email alert that will be sent to administrators when a user at risk is detected. The benefit of this is that administrators will receive email alerts as soon as the risk event is detected:

Figure 5.15 – Notification options

Clicking on this will allow you to configure the options for Users at risk detected alerts.

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