Month: September 2021
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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint-Describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365
Read More: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint-Describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365Endpoints are the devices connected to a network: computers, smartphones, tablets, wireless access points, routers, and firewalls. All endpoints are potential points of vulnerability, and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is designed to discover, configure, and monitor these endpoints. Defender for Endpoint can also remediate the issue when it detects suspicious behavior. As with all of…
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Password authentication-Describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365
Read More: Password authentication-Describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365A password is something you know, and this has been the standard means of authenticating users’ identities for many years. Password authentication costs nothing to implement, and it can be relatively secure. However, there are many possible flaws in the password authentication model. For example, passwords can be forgotten, shared, written down, easily guessed, or…
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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…