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Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals Exam Ref SC-900

By : Dwayne Natwick
Book Image

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 endpoint security with Microsoft Intune

The Microsoft 365 Defender portal has a menu section for reviewing and managing security for endpoints. For full configuration and management of endpoints, you should be using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and configure the management through Endpoint Manager with Microsoft Intune.

Figure 12.22 shows the device inventory list that is found within the Microsoft 365 Defender portal. This provides a list of devices that have been found within your tenant. This can be virtual machines or endpoint devices:

Figure 12.22 – Microsoft 365 Defender for Endpoint – Device inventory

Navigating to Configuration management shows further detail on devices that are being monitored with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and provides you with an Onboard more devices link, as shown in Figure 12.23:

Figure 12.23 – Microsoft 365 Defender for Endpoint – Configuration management

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