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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

Network segmentation

Chapter 2, Describing Security Methodologies, discussed the layers of a defense-in-depth security strategy. The physical layer is Microsoft's responsibility as the cloud provider. Chapter 7, Describing the Identity Protection and Governance Capabilities of Azure AD, described how to protect the identity and access layer. This chapter will discuss Azure solutions that will protect the perimeter, network, compute, application, and data layers.

Network segmentation provides a secure boundary between resources by placing these resources within separated network segments. As you begin to explore Azure security capabilities, it is important to understand components that are the foundation of networking in Azure. Those components are Virtual Networks (VNets), subnets, and virtual network interfaces. Though defining these components is not currently within the scope of this exam, it is important to understand each as we move through this chapter.

VNets are...