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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 Firewall and Web Application Firewall

The solutions that will be discussed in this section can be thought of as protecting at multiple layers of the Defense in Depth strategy. Azure Firewall has security capabilities that can be viewed on both the perimeter and network security layers. In addition to these layers, Web Application Firewall can also be viewed as a security solution at the application layer.

Let's discuss the Azure Firewall solution and how it is used.

Describe Azure Firewall

Azure Firewall is a stateful firewall as a service within Azure. Azure Firewall provides a highly available and unrestricted scalable firewall solution. Figure 8.22 shows the architecture of Azure Firewall in an Azure network. Azure Firewall is placed in a separate subnet to isolate traffic from resources on other subnets. Firewalls provide packet inspection for malicious activity as well as inbound and outbound rules, similar to an NSG. The difference between the rules...