Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals

Audience Profile
The audience for this course is looking to familiarize themselves with the fundamentals of security, compliance, and identity (SCI) across cloud-based and related Microsoft services. The content for this course aligns to the SC-900 exam objective domain. Candidates should be familiar with Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 and understand how Microsoft security, compliance, and identity solutions can span across these solution areas to provide a holistic and end-to-end solution.

Course outline
Module 1: Describe basic concepts of security, compliance, and identity.
Learn about core concepts and methodologies that are foundational to security, compliance, and identity solutions, including Zero-Trust, shared responsibility, the role of identity providers, and more.

Lessons
Describe security and compliance concepts and methodologies
Describe identity concepts
After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe security and compliance concepts and methodologies
Describe identity concepts

Module 2: Describe the concepts and capabilities of Microsoft identity and access management solutions
Learn about Azure AD services and identity principals, secure authentication, access management capabilities, as well as identity protection and governance.

Lessons
Describe the basic services and identity types of Azure AD
Describe the authentication capabilities of Azure AD
Describe the access management capabilities of Azure AD
Describe the identity protection and governance capabilities of Azure AD
Lab : Explore Azure Active Directory
Lab : Explore Azure AD Authentication with self- service password rese
Lab : Explore access management in Azure AD with Conditional Access
Lab : Explore identity governance in Azure AD with Privileged Identity Management
After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe the basic services and identity types of Azure AD
Describe the authentication capabilities of Azure AD.
Describe the access management capabilities of Azure AD.
Describe the identity protection and governance capabilities of Azure AD.

Module 3: Describe the capabilities of Microsoft security solutions
Learn about security capabilities in Microsoft. Topics covered will include network and platform capabilities of Azure, Azure security management, and Microsoft Sentinel. You’ll learn about threat protection with Microsoft 365 Defender and Microsoft 365 security management, and you’ll explore endpoint protection with Intune.

Lessons
Describe the basic security capabilities in Azure
Describe the security management capabilities of Azure
Describe the security capabilities of Microsoft Sentinel
Describe the threat protection capabilities of Microsoft 365
Describe the security management capabilities of Microsoft 365
Describe endpoint security with Microsoft Intune
Lab : Explore Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
Lab : Explore Microsoft Sentinel
Lab : Explore Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Lab : Explore Azure Network Security Groups (NSGs)
Lab : Explore the Microsoft 365 Defender portal
Lab : Explore Microsoft Intune
After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe the basic security capabilities in Azure.
Describe the security management capabilities of Azure.
Describe the security capabilities of Microsoft Sentinel.
Describe the threat protection capabilities of Microsoft 365.
Describe the security management capabilities of Microsoft 365.
Describe endpoint security with Microsoft Intune.

Module 4: Describe the capabilities of Microsoft compliance solutions
Learn about compliance solutions in Microsoft. Topics covered will include Compliance center, Information protection and governance in Microsoft 365, Insider Risk, audit, and eDiscovery solutions. Also covered are Azure resources governance capabilities.

Lessons
Describe the compliance management capabilities in Microsoft
Describe the information protection and governance capabilities of Microsoft 365
Describe the insider risk capabilities in Microsoft 365
Describe the eDiscovery and audit capabilities of Microsoft 365
Describe the resource governance capabilities in Azure
Lab : Explore Azure Policy
Lab : Explore the Core eDiscovery workflow
Lab : Explore the Service Trust Portal
Lab : Explore the Microsoft 365 compliance center & Compliance Manager
Lab : Explore sensitivity labels in Microsoft 365
Lab : Explore Insider Risk Management in Microsoft 365
After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe the compliance management capabilities in Microsoft.
Describe the information protection and governance capabilities of Microsoft 365.
Describe the insider risk capabilities in Microsoft 365.
Describe the eDiscovery and audit capabilities of Microsoft 365.
Describe the resource governance capabilities in Azure