M55606A Microsoft 365 Security Administration

This course is the Community Courseware equivalent of retired MOC Course MS-500

In this course you will learn how to secure user access to your organization’s Microsoft 365 resources using the security & compliance features of Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Purview as they pertain to Microsoft 365.  This includes user password protection, multi-factor authentication, Identity Protection, Microsoft Entra Connect, and conditional access in Microsoft 365. You will also learn about threat protection technologies that help protect your Microsoft 365 environment. Specifically, you will learn about threat vectors and Microsoft’s security solutions to mitigate threats. You will learn about Secure Score, Exchange Online protection, Microsoft 365 Defender, and threat management. In the course you will learn about information protection technologies from Microsoft Purview. The course discusses information rights managed content, message encryption, as well as labels, policies and rules that support data loss prevention and information protection. Lastly, you will learn about archiving and retention in Microsoft 365 as well as data governance and how to conduct content searches and investigations. This course covers data retention policies and tags, in-place records management for SharePoint, email retention, and how to conduct content searches that support eDiscovery investigations.

This course is an alternative to the SC-200 and SC-400 courses and at appropriate level for Microsoft 365 administrators.  This course sits at level 200 to 300, the Security Administrator course covers the full range of security, compliance, privacy and trust features. Microsoft 365 Administrators will find this course aligned to their day to day requirements.  Specialist security and compliance administrators should continue to target SC-200 and SC-400 courses.