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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

Azure Policy and its use cases

In Chapter 9, Describing Security Management and Capabilities of Azure, we discussed Microsoft Defender for Cloud and how it is used to manage security posture. In the Describing the security baselines for Azure section, we provided an exercise that steps through the various tiles within Microsoft Defender for Cloud, including the regulatory compliance tile. The ability to manage the Azure Security baseline and the various regulatory compliance standards that are available within Microsoft Defender for Cloud is done through Azure Policy. Azure Policy is a tool that monitors compliance based on the definitions that have been assigned to the resources that are governed by that policy or initiative.

A policy is a single definition that is assigned to a subscription or resource group. The policy looks at all the resources within the assigned group, checks for compliance on existing resources, and verifies compliance when creating resources. A policy definition...