Book Image

Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals Exam Ref SC-900

By : Dwayne Natwick
Book Image

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

Understanding a shared responsibility in cloud security

Shared responsibility focuses on who has the ownership to interact at a specific level of protection. This might be the physical ownership of equipment or administrative ownership to enable various controls. The level of ownership between the company using the service and the cloud provider changes depending on the type of service that is being consumed by the company.

Before going any further with cloud security and shared responsibility, it is important to understand some terminology. You might have already gained some knowledge of these terms if you previously worked within cloud technologies or have read or taken an Azure Fundamentals or Microsoft 365 Fundamentals course. However, if you have not, and since this is a security, compliance, and identity fundamentals course, you might not be completely familiar with some of the terminology or how we arrived at the cloud. So, let's provide some of this base knowledge...