Prepare for Microsoft Exam SC-900 and help demonstrate your real-world knowledge of the fundamentals of security, compliance, and identity (SCI) across cloud-based and related Microsoft services. Designed for business stakeholders, new and existing IT professionals, functional consultants, and students, this Exam Ref focuses on the critical thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals level. Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives: * Describe the concepts of security, compliance, and identity * Describe the capabilities of Microsoft identity and access management solutions * Describe the capabilities of Microsoft security solutions * Describe the capabilities of Microsoft compliance solutions This Microsoft Exam Ref: * Organizes its coverage by exam objectives * Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you * Assumes you are a business user, stakeholder, consultant, professional, or student who wants to create holistic, end-to-end solutions with Microsoft security, compliance, and identity technologies About the Exam Exam SC-900 focuses on knowledge needed to describe: security and compliance concepts and methods; identity concepts; Azure AD identity services/types, authentication, access management, identity protection, and governance; Azure, Azure Sentinel, and Microsoft 365 security management; Microsoft 365 Defender threat protection and Intune endpoint security; Microsoft 365 compliance management, information protection, governance, insider risk, eDiscovery, and audit capabilities; and Azure resource governance. About Microsoft Certification Passing this exam fulfills your requirements for the Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals certification, helping to demonstrate your understanding of the fundamentals of security, compliance, and identity (SCI) across cloud-based and related Microsoft services. With this certification, you can move on to earn more advanced related Associate-level role-based certifications. See full details at: microsoft.com/learn

Build next-generation security operations with Microsoft Sentinel Microsoft Sentinel is the scalable, cloud-native, security information and event management (SIEM) solution for automating and streamlining threat identification and response across your enterprise. Now, three leading experts guide you step-by-step through planning, deployment, and operations, helping you use Microsoft Sentinel to escape the complexity and scalability challenges of traditional solutions. Fully updated for the latest enhancements, this edition introduces new use cases for investigation, hunting, automation, and orchestration across your enterprise and all your clouds. The authors clearly introduce each service, concisely explain all new concepts, and present proven best practices for maximizing Microsoft Sentinel's value throughout security operations. Three of Microsoft's leading security operations experts show how to: Review emerging challenges that make better cyberdefense an urgent priority See how Microsoft Sentinel responds by unifying alert detection, threat visibility, proactive hunting, and threat response Explore components, architecture, design, and initial configuration Ingest alerts and raw logs from all sources you need to monitor Define and validate rules that prevent alert fatigue Use threat intelligence, machine learning, and automation to triage issues and focus on high-value tasks Add context with User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) and Watchlists Hunt sophisticated new threats to disrupt cyber kill chains before you're exploited Enrich incident management and threat hunting with Jupyter notebooks Use Playbooks to automate more incident handling and investigation tasks Create visualizations to spot trends, clarify relationships, and speed decisions Simplify integration with point-and-click data connectors that provide normalization, detection rules, queries, and Workbooks About This Book For cybersecurity analysts, security administrators, threat hunters, support professionals, engineers, and other IT professionals concerned with security operations For both Microsoft Azure and non-Azure users at all levels of experience