Course MS-500 Microsoft 365 Administrator: Security

This course provides students with the knowledge and skills required to protect your Microsoft Office 365 environment from attacks with integrated and automated security, to secure user access to your organization’s resources as well as to conduct content searches and investigations.

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Administer user and group security in Microsoft Office 365
• Manage passwords in Microsoft Office 365
• Describe Azure Identity Protection features
• Plan and implement Azure AD Connect
• Manage synchronized identities
• Plan implement federated identities
• Describe and use conditional access
• Describe cyber-attack threat vectors
• Describe security solutions for Microsoft Office 365
• Use Microsoft Secure Score to evaluate your security posture
• Use the Security Dashboard in the Microsoft Security & Compliance center
• Configure various advanced threat protection services for Microsoft Office 365
• Configure Advanced Threat Analytics
• Plan and deploy Mobile Device Management
• Implement information rights management
• Secure messages in Office 365
• Configure Data Loss Prevention policies
• Deploy and manage Cloud App Security
• Implement Azure information protection for Microsoft Office 365
• Implement Windows information protection for devices
• Plan and deploy a data archiving and retention system
• Perform assessments in Compliance Manager
• Manage email retention through Exchange
• Conduct an audit log investigation
• Create and manage an eDiscovery investigation
• Manage GDPR data subject requests

Audience Profile

This course is for the Microsoft Office 365 security administrator role. This role collaborates with the Microsoft Office 365 Enterprise Administrator, business stakeholders and other workload administrators to plan and implement security strategies and ensures that the solutions comply with the policies and regulations of the organization.

This role proactively secures Microsoft Office 365 enterprise environments. Responsibilities include responding to threats, implementing, managing and monitoring security and compliance solutions for the Microsoft Office 365 environment. They respond to incidents, investigations and enforcement of data governance.

The Microsoft Office 365 Security administrator is familiar with Microsoft Office 365 workloads and has strong skills and experience with identity protection, information protection, threat protection, security management and data governance. This role focuses on the Microsoft Office 365 environment and includes hybrid environments.

The secondary audience for this course includes IT professionals who take this course as preparation material for Azure exam MS-500: Microsoft 365 Security Administration.

Before attending this course, students must have:

• Basic conceptual understanding of Microsoft Azure
• Experience with Windows 10 devices
• Experience with Office 365
• Basic understanding of authorization and authentication
• Basic understanding of computer networks
• Working knowledge of managing mobile devices