Month: March 2024
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Identifying and valuing information assets-Describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365
Read More: Identifying and valuing information assets-Describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365Companies often generate vast amounts of data with varying levels of sensitivity. It is usually not practical for an organization to implement the ultimate level of security over its data, so it is necessary to classify the information according to its function and value. Therefore, the risk management process should begin with an inventory of…
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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…