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Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals

4 Courses
7 Hours
Skill IQ

With the ever growing importance of security in IT infrastructure, these courses focus on the products and methodologies used for securing Microsoft technologies. These courses will serve as your introduction to Microsoft security and the various tools at your disposal as an admin.

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Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals

With the ever growing importance of security in IT infrastructure, these courses focus on the products and methodologies used for securing Microsoft technologies. These courses will serve as your introduction to Microsoft security and the various tools at your disposal as an admin.

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What You'll Learn
  • Describe security and compliance concepts
  • Define identity concepts
  • Describe function and identity types of Microsoft Entra ID
  • Describe authentication capabilities of Microsoft Entra ID
  • Describe access management capabilities of Microsoft Entra ID
  • Describe identity protection and governance capabilities of Microsoft Entra
  • Describe core infrastructure security services in Azure
  • Describe security management capabilities of Azure
  • Describe security capabilities of Microsoft Sentinel
  • Describe threat protection with Microsoft Defender XDR
  • Describe Microsoft’s Service Trust Portal and privacy principles
  • Describe the compliance management capabilities of Microsoft Purview
  • Describe information protection and data lifecycle management capabilities of Microsoft Purview
  • Describe insider risk capabilities in Microsoft Purview
Prerequisites
  • Familiarity with Microsoft is a plus.
Related topics
  • Microsoft Windows
  • Microsoft 365
  • Microsoft 365
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Microsoft Sentinel
  • Microsoft Defender
  • Entra ID
  • Microsoft Purview
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