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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

Describing how external users and groups are used in Azure AD

Guest users and external users are invited to the Azure AD tenant and have access to resources that they have been authorized. This is helpful when someone outside your company needs access to an application to collaborate, or a partner or subsidiary company needs to be given access to resources.

Guests are invited from within the User tile by selecting + New Guest User and providing their external email address. Once they accept the invitation, they are now added to the Azure AD tenant and can be assigned permissions to authorize them access to resources.

In order to be able to create users in Azure AD, you will need to have the Global Administrator role or the User Administrator role. Since the best practice is to adhere to the principle of least privilege, the user administrator role assignment should be given to anyone that is required to create, configure, and manage users within Azure AD.

Once you are in...