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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

Describe Azure DDoS protection

In Chapter 3, Understanding Key Security Concepts, you learned about common threats, including DDoS attacks. To review, DDoS attacks are created by an attacker deploying a bot to flood your Internet Service Provider (ISP) with requests to your resources, such as your web applications. The flood of requests overloads the ability to process requests, and legitimate users receive responses that the site is unavailable. This attack doesn't steal from the company but can have an impact on revenue from an e-commerce site not being available.

Microsoft provides basic DDoS protection at no cost to all Azure subscriptions and protects the perimeter layer within defense in depth. This is a win-win for Microsoft and its customers. If you think about how a DDoS attack works, a successful attack on a customer that is using Microsoft Azure will also affect other customers that are using the same ISP as the customer under attack. Therefore, it is in Microsoft...