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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 secure remote management of virtual machines

The previous sections have discussed how to segment and protect traffic that is inbound and outbound on your Azure network. Since you are now using resources on Azure and not on-premises, you need to consider how to manage your virtual machines securely without leaving them open to attacks. Typically, you are managing either a Linux virtual machine on SSH port 22 or a Windows virtual machine on RDP port 3389. Attackers know this and are known to run programs that check IP addresses to see if these ports are open. They can then leverage this for a brute-force attack on your resources. Therefore, it is important that you do not leave these ports open to the internet.

Azure provides options to avoid having these ports open to the internet, while still making them available to you to remotely manage at the operating system level. The two that will be discussed are Just-in-Time Virtual Machine access and Azure Bastion. Let's...