Month: April 2021
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Authentication types-Describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365
Read More: Authentication types-Describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365The traditional means of authenticating a user’s identity is for the individual to supply an account name and a password. In Microsoft 365, administrators can create password policies that compel users to create long and complex passwords and change them frequently. However, passwords are always subject to potential weaknesses that make them an unwieldy authentication…
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Summary-Describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365
Thought experiment In this thought experiment, demonstrate your skills and knowledge of the topics covered in this chapter. You can find the answers to this thought experiment in the next section. Ralph is the Director of the Brooklyn datacenter at Contoso Corp. The company currently has three office buildings in the New York area with…
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Anticipating threats-Describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365
Arguably, the most difficult part of the risk management planning process is trying to anticipate all the possible threats that could afflict the company’s data in the future. The three basic risk factors for the data—confidentiality, integrity, and availability—can be exploited in any number of specific ways, but the general threat categories are listed in…
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Classifying users-Describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365
The third element of the digital estate that must be considered when creating a risk management plan is the people who actually access the data. Whether deliberately or inadvertently, users are a constant vulnerability—if not an actual threat—to the organization’s data. After quantifying the organization’s information assets and their value and inventorying the hardware used…