Author: Sophia Lisk
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Service Trust Portal-Describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365
Read More: Service Trust Portal-Describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365Microsoft is aware of these trust issues and has created a central storehouse called the Service Trust Portal (STP) for information about them. STP is a website, shown in Figure 3-43, available to everyone at http://aka.ms/stp, although some parts of the site are restricted to registered users of Microsoft 365 and other products. See Figure…
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Describe Microsoft Granular Delegated Admin Privileges (GDAP) principles-Describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365
Read More: Describe Microsoft Granular Delegated Admin Privileges (GDAP) principles-Describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365One of the recurrent problems for partners and other service providers supporting Microsoft 365 customers is the allocation of access permissions that enable the partner to work on the customer’s systems and services on their behalf. A feature called delegated administration privileges (DAP) has long made that possible, but DAP grants the partner full Global…
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Data-Describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365
Read More: Data-Describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365All the security functions applying to the other five Zero Trust criteria essentially protect the organization’s data—its most valuable resource. Administrators must consider the data’s security in all possible states: in-motion, at-rest, and in-use. Depending on the nature and sensitivity of the data, each state might require different security measures. Microsoft 365 supports tools that…
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Network-Describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365
Read More: Network-Describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365Networks provide users with access to the data they need, but they are also a major point of vulnerability. Dividing a network into segments with access controls at each hop can prevent attackers from moving laterally through the network once they gain access. Networks in a Zero Trust environment should also use end-to-end encryption to…
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MDM and MAM-Describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365
Read More: MDM and MAM-Describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365Securing devices begins with their enrollment using Microsoft Intune when administrators must decide what type of management they will impose on the device. Mobile Device Management (MDM) grants the organization nearly complete control over the device, requiring the user to comply with all the enterprise policies. MDM even allows an administrator to remotely wipe the…
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Endpoints-Describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365
Read More: Endpoints-Describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365An endpoint is any device that connects to the network from any location, whether the device belongs to the company, an employee, or a guest user. Zero Trust calls for security policies to be applied and enforced uniformly on endpoints of all types by tools such as Microsoft Intune, regardless of the users’ identities or…
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Identity-Describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365
Read More: Identity-Describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365It’s easy to build a perfectly secure house; just leave out all the windows and doors. Your possessions will be safe, but you won’t be able to get at them. In the same way, it would be easy to build a perfectly secure network by establishing a formidable perimeter around the sensitive resources and not…
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Describe the Zero Trust model-Describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365
Read More: Describe the Zero Trust model-Describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365At one time, enterprise security could be considered a perimeter surrounding an organization. Data remained largely within the organization’s sites and could be protected from unauthorized access by firewalls, virtual private networks (VPNs), and physical barriers. Even when data began to be accessible beyond the organization using Internet websites and portable devices, the company still…
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Microsoft 365 Lighthouse-Describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365
Read More: Microsoft 365 Lighthouse-Describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365Small- and medium-sized businesses often lack IT personnel with a sufficient security background to manage and monitor the network using the tools provided in Microsoft 365. This creates a market for managed service providers (MSPs) who can lend their security expertise to their clients to help them protect their networks. Microsoft 365 Lighthouse is a…
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Protecting documents-Describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365
Read More: Protecting documents-Describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365The fundamental purpose of identities is to protect documents and other data. When protecting identities, the threat of lateral penetration forces administrators to apply equal protection to all of them, regardless of their privileges. However, the security can and should be more selective when protecting documents. While an enterprise might have hundreds or thousands of…
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Summary-Describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365
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Anticipating threats-Describe security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365
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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…