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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 incidents and incident management capabilities

As stated at the beginning of the section describing Secure Score, the Microsoft 365 Defender portal can be used for security posture management within your entire Microsoft 365 tenant for identity, devices, and applications. This includes incidents created based on potential threats and vulnerabilities and the management of those incidents.

Within the Microsoft 365 Defender portal, there is an Incidents & alerts menu that will assign incidents on potential threats that need further investigation. You can manage these incidents through the incident response process within the portal, as shown in Figure 12.18:

Figure 12.18 – Microsoft 365 Defender – Incidents

You can also configure alerts based on incidents to assign to the specific incident response teams. The dashboard for Alerts is shown in Figure 12.19:

Figure 12.19 – Microsoft 365 Defender –...