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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

Describing the XDR and Microsoft 365 Defender services

Chapter 9, Describing Security Management and Capabilities of Azure, discussed the CSPM capabilities within Microsoft Defender for Cloud, along with the enhanced security capabilities that provide threat protection to Azure resources. Microsoft 365 Defender provides enhanced threat detection and protection capabilities for Microsoft 365 using a suite of Microsoft Defender products. The combination of Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Microsoft 365 Defender solutions creates the Microsoft XDR solution.

XDR refers to the approach of designing and architecting the protection of your resources to deliver automated, intelligent, and integrated security services across all domains and infrastructures. This approach helps security operations and administrators to defend against attacks by connecting all of the events and alerts from various systems into one dashboard. This provides more efficient and effective notifications and responses...