
Build a solid foundation by exploring on-premise Active Directory domain services, virtualization concepts, and the Microsoft cloud framework, including Microsoft 365, Azure, and IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
Explore the foundations of Active Directory domains, domain controllers, and centralization through DNS, Kerberos, LDAP, and group policy objects to manage authentication and policy replication.
Learn to ask questions effectively, contact the instructor, and search official Microsoft Docs for updated guidance on topics like Microsoft 365 dynamic groups, exam labs, and Udemy policies.
Use data explorer to surface sensitive data and labels, and activity explorer to monitor user actions; learn how connectors ingest external data, like Salesforce, into Purview.
Assign roles in Microsoft Purview to manage sensitivity labels—compliance administrator, information protection admin, and analyst—and recognize investigators and readers with least privilege for label policies and DLP in Microsoft 365.
Publish sensitivity labels by creating a publishing policy, selecting the label, assigning admin units, and applying the policy to all users and groups across Office apps and Power BI.
Learn how users apply sensitivity labels to Word documents using desktop and web Word after signing in with a Microsoft 365 license. Note possible label delays up to 24 hours.
Defender for cloud apps secures cloud usage by monitoring user activities, preventing shadow IT, and enforcing data policies across on-prem and cloud apps through discovery, app connectors, and remediation policies.
Shows how to auto apply sensitivity labels using Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps by creating a file policy that labels external document sharing in SharePoint with a top secret label.
Explore the Microsoft Purview information protection client, a Windows-based tool for classifying, labeling, and encrypting sensitive data across files and emails, with file explorer integration and on-prem data scanning.
Download and install the Microsoft Purview Information Protection client on a Windows machine or an Azure virtual machine, then verify it appears in control panel.
Install the Microsoft Purview Information Protection scanner on Windows servers and configure SQL to scan on-prem files for labels and DLP policies, with results visible in Content Explorer.
Delete the virtual machine by removing its resource group in portal.azure.com to conserve Azure credits. Use the force delete option, confirm the name, and delete so you can move on.
Explore data loss prevention roles and permissions in Microsoft Purview, focusing on built-in roles like compliance administrator, compliance data administrator, and information protection admin to create policies and view reports.
Explore how adaptive protection in Microsoft Purview uses insider risk management and monitoring to tailor data loss prevention policies to user risk levels, enabling proactive protection with alerts and actions.
Just-in-time protection in Purview data loss prevention dynamically evaluates files during share, copy, or move to block or allow actions in real time.
Explore insider risk management in Microsoft Purview, using policy-driven alerts, triage, and case-based investigations to detect, analyze, and take action on internal data threats.
Configure data connectors in Microsoft Purview to ingest third-party data for insider risk management, enabling connectors with permissions, eDiscovery, and retention in insider risk policies.
Explore insider risk management settings in Microsoft Purview, including analytics, data sharing, detected groups, exclusions, inline alert customization, and policy indicators to tune alerts and privacy options.
Explore how insider risk alerts trigger automatic notifications and how to create and manage cases from those alerts, collaborating with admins to investigate and save findings.
Learn to audit with Microsoft Purview by navigating to compliance, opening audit, and filtering by dates, activities, users, and workloads, then review details and export results.
Protect content in AI environments with purview controls, including data classification and retention labeling, DLP, and access controls, and monitor with audit logs while integrating AI models for secure usage.
Implement data security posture management to discover sensitive data, assess risk, enforce compliance, and monitor controls across Microsoft 365 AI workloads, including SharePoint over sharing, DLP, and insider risk management.
Deploy and configure a Windows 11 Azure virtual machine for hands-on practice, including resource group setup, VM creation, remote access with an rdp file, and basic defaults.
Learn to set up DSPM for AI with Purview, including prerequisites, analytics, data discovery, risk assessments, access control, and AI privacy and compliance.
We really hope you'll agree, this training is way more than the average course on Udemy!
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Training from an instructor of over 20 years who has trained thousands of people and also a Microsoft Certified Trainer
Lecture that explains the concepts in an easy to learn method for someone that is just starting out with this material
Instructor led hands on and simulations to practice that can be followed even if you have little to no experience
TOPICS COVERED INCLUDING HANDS ON LECTURE AND PRACTICE TUTORIALS:
Introduction
Welcome to the course!
Understanding the Microsoft 365 and Azure Environment
A Solid Foundation of Active Directory Domains
A Solid Foundation of RAS, DMZ, and Virtualization
A Solid Foundation of the Microsoft Cloud Services
DONT SKIP: Before beginning your account setup
Creating a trial Microsoft 365/Azure Account
IMPORTANT Using Assignments in the course
Questions for John Christopher
Certificate of Completion
Using Data Classification and Sensitivity Label in Microsoft Purview
Introducing the new Microsoft Purview portal
Understanding requirements for sensitive information
Concepts of built-in or custom sensitive information requirements
Creating custom sensitive info types
Document Fingerprinting
Working with exact data match (EDM) classifiers
Understanding trainable classifiers
Working with trainable classifiers
Using data explorer & content explorer for monitoring data classification
Sensitive info types with optical character recognition (OCR)
Understanding sensitivity labels
Administering permissions for sensitivity labels
Creating sensitivity labels
Sensitivity label protection settings and content marking
Publishing sensitivity labels in Microsoft Purview
Using auto-labeling policies for sensitivity labels
Controlling sensitivity label to containers
How users can apply sensitivity labels manually using Microsoft Word
Monitor label usage by using Content explorer, Activity explorer, & label reports
Concepts of Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
How Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps can apply sensitivity labels
Using Microsoft Purview for information protection of clients and data
Concepts of the Microsoft Purview Information Protection Client
Setting up the Microsoft Purview Information Protection Client
Using the Microsoft Purview Information Protection client to manage files
Understanding MS Purview Information Protection scanner bulk classifications
Deleting the Azure VM that is no longer needed
Understanding the Microsoft 365 email Encryption solutions
Microsoft Purview Message Encryption
Microsoft Purview Advanced Message Encryption
Using Data Loss Prevention with Microsoft Purview
Understanding data loss prevention policies
Data loss prevention roles and permissions
Creating data loss prevention policies
Using Adaptive Protection with data loss prevention
Data loss prevention policy and rule precedence
Using Defender for Cloud apps to deploy DLP file policies
Monitor for DLP alerts, events, and view reports
Concepts of Endpoint DLP device requirements
Settings used to manage Endpoint DLP
Managing DLP policies using the advanced rules
Working with just-in-time (JIT) protection
How to monitor endpoint activities
Using and maintaining retention in Microsoft Purview
Understanding information retention and disposition
Retention Policies vs Retention Labels vs Retention Label Policies
Using adaptive scopes
Creating retention labels
Publishing a retention label using a label policy
Using auto-apply labels for retention
Understanding policy precedence in regards to conflicts
Creating retention policies
Concepts for recovering retained content in Microsoft 365
Using Insider Risk Management in Microsoft Purview
Understanding Insider Risk Management in Microsoft 365
Concepts of Insider Risk Management roles and permissions
Using Insider Risk Management connectors
Managing Insider Risk Management settings
Managing the settings for policy indicators
Understanding the concepts of policy templates
Creating Insider Risk Management policies
Working with forensic evidence settings
Managing insider risk levels for Adaptive Protection
Insider risk alerts and cases
Using notice templates within Insider Risk Management
Using alert monitoring and protecting data used by AI services
Understanding the license concepts for Microsoft Purview Audit (Premium)\
Looking into activities by using Microsoft Purview Audit
Working with audit retention policies
Using activity explorer to analyze Microsoft Purview activities
Data loss prevention alerts in Microsoft Purview
Viewing insider risk activities
Viewing Purview alerts in Microsoft Defender XDR
Working with file policy alerts using Defender for Cloud Apps
Performing content searches
Understanding controls for the AI services in Microsoft Purview
Concepts of Microsoft 365 workload controls
Setting up a Windows 11 VM for hands on
Setting up the pre-requisites involving DSPM for AI
AI policies with DSPM
DSPM for AI activity monitoring
Deleting the Windows 11 VM from the lab