SC-401: Administering Information Security in Microsoft 365

Course SC-401: Administering Information Security in Microsoft 365 (BETA)

As an Information Security Administrator, you plan and implement the security of sensitive information using Microsoft Purview and related services. You are responsible for mitigating risks by protecting data within Microsoft 365-managed collaboration environments from internal and external threats, and by protecting data used by AI services. You also implement information protection, data loss prevention, data retention, internal risk management, and manage information security alerts and activities.

You will collaborate with other roles responsible for governance, data, and security to assess and develop policies that address the organization's information security and risk reduction objectives. You will collaborate with workload administrators, enterprise application owners, and governance stakeholders to implement technology solutions that support necessary policies and controls. This role is also involved in responding to information security incidents.

You should be familiar with all Microsoft 365 services, PowerShell, Microsoft Entra, the Microsoft Defender portal, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Applications.

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