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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

The insider risk management solution

In Chapter 14, Describing Information Protection and Governance Capabilities of Microsoft 365, we described the information protection, loss prevention, and information governance solutions that Microsoft 365 provides through sensitivity policies, data loss prevention policies, and retention policies. We also explored record management for marking documents for proper retention and disposition. In this chapter, you will learn about additional solutions within the Microsoft 365 Compliance portal to help you govern your data and communication within the company. These solutions include insider risk management, communication compliance, information barriers, and eDiscovery. Let's start by describing insider risk management.

Insider risk management

To access the insider risk management solution for the Microsoft 365 compliance center, navigate to https://compliance.microsoft.com. In the left-hand side menu, you will see the solutions. Insider...