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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)
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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
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Section 5: The Microsoft Compliance Monitoring Capabilities within Microsoft 365 and Azure

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Microsoft Sentinel prepares a company to build a SOC that can focus on rapidly detecting, prioritizing, and triaging potential attacks. Companies that have a dedicated operations team that reviews events to identify and eliminate incidents that are false positives and be able to focus on real attacks. When you have a centralized security operations team, this team can monitor security-related data and investigate security breaches and threats. These teams work with other teams within an organization to communicate, investigate, and hunt activities that are aligned with the specific infrastructure or application teams.

Figure 11.19 provides a diagram of how an SOC team would respond to an incident:

Figure 11.19 – The SOC incident response workflow

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