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SC-401: Administering Information Security in Microsoft 365
Microsoft Purview is Microsoft's unified data governance and compliance solution, used by organizations to protect sensitive data, manage information lifecycles, and mitigate insider risks across Microsoft 365 environments. The SC-401 certification validates the skills needed to plan and implement information security of sensitive data using Microsoft Purview and related services.
This path covers information protection, data loss prevention, retention policies, insider risk management, and managing information security alerts and activities. Learners will develop the skills needed to protect data from internal and external threats — including data used by AI services — across Microsoft 365 collaboration environments.
This learning path is actively in production. More content will be added to this page as it gets published and becomes available in the library. Planned content includes: - Implementing Information Protection (SC-401) (video course) - Implementing Data Loss Prevention and Retention (SC-401) (video course) - Managing Risks, Alerts, and Activities (SC-401) (video course)
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SC-401: Administering Information Security in Microsoft 365
Watch the following courses to get learning about information security administration in Microsoft 365 and prepare for the SC-401 certification exam!
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What You'll Learn
- How to implement information protection using sensitivity labels, data classification, and Microsoft Purview policies
- How to implement data loss prevention policies and configure retention settings across Microsoft 365 services
- How to manage insider risks, investigate information security alerts, and monitor user activities in Microsoft Purview
- Learners should have a solid familiarity with Microsoft 365 services, PowerShell, Microsoft Entra, the Microsoft Defender portal, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps before beginning this path. This is an intermediate-level certification intended for administrators with hands-on experience in information security, data protection, or compliance roles within Microsoft 365 environments. No formal prerequisite certification is required.
- Microsoft Purview
- Microsoft 365
- Data Loss Prevention
- Microsoft Defender
- Cybersecurity