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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 data encryption

This section will discuss the protection of data through the different encryption options within Azure for encrypting data at rest. This will include encryption key management and other features that are included with Azure Key Vault. There are three types of encryption services within Azure; they are Storage Service Encryption (SSE), Azure Disk Encryption (ADE), and Transparent Data Encryption (TDE). The following sections will describe the use of each of these.

Describe Storage Service encryption

Storage Service Encryption (SSE) is the encryption service within Azure storage accounts for encrypting data at rest. SSE is turned on by default for all objects and files that are saved within a storage account container or file share. When creating a storage account within Azure, SSE with Microsoft-managed keys is turned on and encryption keys are created for the storage account. These storage account encryption keys can be located and viewed on the...