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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)
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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 Blueprints

Azure Blueprints allows you to create templates so that you can deploy resources in a standardized manner. As an example, a builder has standard blueprints that establish the foundation of each of the houses within the neighborhood they are building. Azure Blueprints governs how resources are created within Azure in the same way.

Azure Blueprints allows you to set the foundation for resources, including their size, network configuration, security controls, baselines, and policies that will be deployed with the Azure resources. This includes the Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates you wish to deploy.

To access Blueprints, go to https://portal.azure.com and search for Blueprints, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 16.15 – Searching for Blueprints

The first time that you go to Blueprints, you will find a Getting started guide for creating a blueprint.

Figure 16.16 – Blueprints – Getting...