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Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect Exam Ref SC-100

By : Dwayne Natwick
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Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect Exam Ref SC-100

5 (1)
By: Dwayne Natwick

Overview of this book

Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect Exam Ref SC-100 is a comprehensive guide that will help cybersecurity professionals design and evaluate the cybersecurity architecture of Microsoft cloud services. Complete with hands-on tutorials, projects, and self-assessment questions, you’ll have everything you need to pass the SC-100 exam. This book will take you through designing a strategy for a cybersecurity architecture and evaluating the governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) of the architecture. This will include cloud-only and hybrid infrastructures, where you’ll learn how to protect using the principles of zero trust, along with evaluating security operations and the overall security posture. To make sure that you are able to take the SC-100 exam with confidence, the last chapter of this book will let you test your knowledge with a mock exam and practice questions. By the end of this book, you’ll have the knowledge you need to plan, design, and evaluate cybersecurity for Microsoft cloud and hybrid infrastructures, and pass the SC-100 exam with flying colors.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Part 1: The Evolution of Cybersecurity in the Cloud
3
Part 2: Designing a Zero-Trust Strategy and Architecture
7
Part 3: Evaluating Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Technical Strategies and Security Operations Strategies
10
Part 4: Designing Security for Infrastructure
13
Part 5: Designing a Strategy for Data and Applications

Designing a strategy for role assignment and delegation

Managing role assignments and how users are delegated access to resources can be a source of concern for security and governance. To alleviate the issue of users requesting access and being assigned a role on a one-to-one basis, planning a strategy for role assignments by groups of users creates a more manageable environment.

Security groups can be created for departments or project groups that include dynamic assignments. These groups can be assigned the roles defined by management and supervisor stakeholders for members of the groups. When a user is then manually or dynamically assigned to that group, they inherit that role. When users are removed from the group, the role no longer is available to them. This allows you to better manage and govern the access levels and roles that users in your company have to resources. The differences between Microsoft 365 groups and security groups can be found at this link: https://learn...