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Learn how Microsoft supports data discovery, classification, and protection as part of a cybersecurity solution

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Overview

  • Module 1: Learn how Microsoft 365 information protection and governance solutions help you protect and govern your data, throughout its lifecycle – wherever it lives, or wherever it travels.
  • Upon completion of this module, you should be able to:

    • Discuss information protection and governance and why it’s important.
    • Describe Microsoft’s approach to information protection and governance.
    • Define key terms associated with Microsoft’s information protection and governance solutions.
    • Identify the solutions that comprise information and governance in Microsoft 365.
  • Module 2: Learn how to discover, classify, and protect sensitive and business-critical content throughout its lifecycle across your organization.
  • When you finish with this module, you'll be able to:

    • Discuss the data loss prevention solution and its benefits.
    • Describe the data loss prevention configuration process.
    • Explain what users will experience when the solution is implemented.
  • Module 3: Learn how to manage your content lifecycle using solutions to import, store, and classify business-critical data so you can keep what you need and delete what you don't.
  • Upon completion of this module, you should be able to:

    • Discuss the information governance solution and its benefits.
    • List the customer scenarios the information governance solution addresses.
    • Describe the information governance configuration process.
    • Explain what users will experience when the solution is implemented.
    • Articulate deployment and adoption best practices.
  • Module 4: Learners should know and be able to describe data classification and data protection key concepts.
  • By the end of this module, you will be able to answer:

    • What is a sensitive information type?
    • What is data classification?
    • What is data classification in the context of data governance and privacy compliance?
    • What are the common scenarios for using data classification?
    • How does data classification integrate with data protection?
    • What is data loss prevention?
    • What are the Microsoft technologies for data classification and protection?
  • Module 5: Learn how to set up policies to classify, retain, and protect your cloud-based data.
  • In this module, you will:

    • Learn how to classify your data
    • Configure your data retention requirements
    • Explore data ownership and sovereignty
  • Module 6: Learn how to connect apps to Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps and deploy Conditional App Access Control.
  • In this module, you will:

    • Connect apps to Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
    • Deploy Conditional Access App Control
    • Configure real-time monitoring and control across cloud apps
  • Module 7: Learn the key considerations for transitioning your organization from using Azure Information Protection to Microsoft Information Protection.
  • Upon completion of this module, you should be able to:

    • Articulate the importance of transitioning to Microsoft Information Protection.
    • List benefits of transitioning to Microsoft Information Protection.
    • Explain the key considerations for making the transition.
    • Identify steps for transitioning to Microsoft Information Protection.
  • Module 8: Protect identity and access in Microsoft Teams across your organization.
  • At the end of this module, you should be able to:

    • Demonstrate how to configure data loss prevention policies.
    • Describe how to determine data residency.
    • Explain how to record access in Microsoft Teams.
    • Explain secure guest access.
  • Module 9: This module will introduce you to how DLP can be used to protect sensitive information in Teams.
  • By the end of this module, you should be able to:

    • What a DLP policy contains
    • How DLP policies work
    • About DLP and Microsoft Teams
    • Creating a DLP policy from a template
    • Create a custom DLP policy
    • Customize policy tips
    • Prevent external access
    • Reports from DLP policies

Syllabus

  • Module 1: Introduction to information protection and governance in Microsoft 365
    • Introduction to information and governance in Microsoft 365
    • Know your data
    • Protect your data
    • Prevent data loss
    • Govern your data
    • Summary and knowledge check
  • Module 2: Prevent data loss in Microsoft 365
    • Introduction
    • Data loss prevention overview
    • Identify content to protect
    • Define policy settings for your DLP policy
    • Test and create your DLP policy
    • Prepare Endpoint DLP
    • Manage DLP alerts in the Microsoft 365 compliance center
    • View data loss prevention reports
    • Knowledge check
    • Summary
  • Module 3: Govern information in Microsoft 365
    • Information governance overview
    • Configure retention policies
    • Configure retention labels
    • Configure manual retention label policies
    • Configure auto-apply retention label policies
    • Import data for information governance
    • Manage, monitor, and remediate information governance
    • Summary and knowledge check
  • Module 4: Intro to data classification and protection
    • Introduction
    • What is sensitive information?
    • What is data classification?
    • Common scenarios for using data classification
    • What is data loss prevention?
    • Microsoft technologies for data classification and protection
    • Knowledge check
    • Summary
  • Module 5: Configure security policies to manage data
    • Introduction
    • Classify your data at rest, in process, and in transit
    • Exercise - Classify an Azure SQL Database
    • Explore data recovery, retention, and disposal
    • Understand data sovereignty
    • Summary
  • Module 6: Implement information protection using Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
    • Introduction
    • Connect apps to Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
    • Deploy Conditional Access App Control
    • Configure real-time monitoring and control across cloud apps
    • Knowledge check
    • Summary
  • Module 7: Transition from Azure Information Protection to Microsoft Information Protection
    • Microsoft label management journey overview
    • Evaluate Windows labeling client alternatives
    • Transition from Azure Information Protection to Microsoft Information Protection
    • Summary and knowledge check
  • Module 8: Protect information in Microsoft Teams
    • Introduction
    • Configure data loss prevention
    • Determine data residency
    • Record access
    • Secure guest access
    • Knowledge check
    • Summary
  • Module 9: DLP for Teams and Microsoft 365
    • Introduction
    • Describe DLP Policy
    • Understand how DLP policies work
    • Understand DLP policies Microsoft Teams
    • Create new DLP policy with Microsoft Teams
    • Customize tool tip policy
    • Prevent external access sensitive documents
    • Use reports validate DLP policy data
    • Exercise - Configure DLP policies for Microsoft Teams
    • Knowledge check
    • Summary

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