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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 data loss prevention

As discussed in the previous section, sensitivity labels and sensitivity policies are used to identify sensitive data within files, emails, sites, and collaboration groups. The policies then determine an action that can take place to label or encrypt that data, as identified by an administrator or the user. The activity on this sensitive information is then monitored to identify misuse of this information. A key feature that is missing from sensitivity labels and sensitivity policies is the ability to block this information from being shared. For this, a data loss prevention policy must be in place.

Data loss prevention policies are used to prevent data loss and avoid sensitive data from being leaked to unauthorized users inside or outside of a company. The ability to avoid this data loss relies on a policy to be put in place against the types of sensitive data, using either a sensitivity label that has been created or built-in data types that are...