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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

Planning and implementing security defaults

Microsoft provides security defaults within Azure AD to assist companies that are new to Azure AD and Microsoft's cloud in protecting identities. In new tenants, security defaults are already turned on and in place, so there isn't any planning or implementation required. However, there are situations where security defaults will need to be turned off as more advanced identity protection solutions are enabled, such as Conditional Access policies. To access the security defaults, navigate to Azure AD and scroll down under Manage in the left-hand menu to Properties. Then, scroll down in the Properties tile to Manage Security defaults, as shown in Figure 6.25:

Figure 6.25 – Manage Security defaults

Security defaults provide basic identity security settings to the entire tenant and are very helpful to protect a company. These settings include the following:

  • Requiring all users to register for Azure...