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Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals Exam Ref SC-900

By : Dwayne Natwick
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Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals Exam Ref SC-900

By: Dwayne Natwick

Overview of this book

Cloud technologies have made building a defense-in-depth security strategy of paramount importance. Without proper planning and discipline in deploying the security posture across Microsoft 365 and Azure, you are compromising your infrastructure and data. Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals is a comprehensive guide that covers all of the exam objectives for the SC-900 exam while walking you through the core security services available for Microsoft 365 and Azure. This book starts by simplifying the concepts of security, compliance, and identity before helping you get to grips with Azure Active Directory, covering the capabilities of Microsoft’s identity and access management (IAM) solutions. You'll then advance to compliance center, information protection, and governance in Microsoft 365. You'll find out all you need to know about the services available within Azure and Microsoft 365 for building a defense-in-depth security posture, and finally become familiar with Microsoft's compliance monitoring capabilities. By the end of the book, you'll have gained the knowledge you need to take the SC-900 certification exam and implement solutions in real-life scenarios.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
1
Section 1: Exam Overview
3
Section 2: The Key Concepts of Security, Compliance, and Identity
7
Section 3: The Microsoft Identity Management Solutions
11
Section 4: The Microsoft Security Solutions for Microsoft 365 and Azure
17
Section 5: The Microsoft Compliance Monitoring Capabilities within Microsoft 365 and Azure

Describing Azure AD Identity Protection and Conditional Access policies

Conditional Access policies enforce additional verification actions based on a signal that a user or device may be potentially compromised. The foundation of Conditional Access policies is the zero-trust methodology. So, before we discuss planning and implementing Conditional Access, let's discuss the main points of zero-trust.

Zero-trust methodology

As we have moved as companies to using cloud providers, such as Microsoft, the responsibility for securing the physical infrastructure for cloud services is provided by these cloud providers. If we are adhering to a defense in depth security posture, Microsoft is responsible for the physical first layer of defense, making the first layer that we are responsible for as a company the identity and access layer. Therefore, the statements identity is the new perimeter and identity is the new control plane have become extremely important in securing a cloud infrastructure...