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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 retention policies and retention labels

As stated in the previous section, a key feature in managing records is the file plan and how we manage the retention and disposition of records. The ability to manage records within Microsoft 365 is accomplished with retention labels and policies. The labels identify and mark documents as records, and the policies then ensure that these records are not disposed of by users before the scope of the policy has been met.

More information on the scope of records retention can be found at this link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/retention?view=o365-worldwide.

Figure 14.34 shows the Information governance dashboard where you can manage retention labels and retention policies:

Figure 14.34 – The Information governance dashboard

Retention labels and policies can be created to be driven by events on a document. These events could be when the document was created or when it was...