Learn how to protect information in your Microsoft 365 deployment. This course focuses on data governance and information protection within your organization. The course covers implementation of data loss prevention policies, sensitive information types, sensitivity labels, data retention policies and Microsoft message encryption among other related topics. The course was designed for the Information Protection Administrator job role. A person in this role plans and implements controls that meet organizational data compliance needs. They are responsible for translating requirements and compliance controls into technical implementation. The course helps learners prepare for the Microsoft Information Protection Administrator exam (SC-400).

The Information Protection Administrator plans and implements controls that meet organizational compliance needs. This person is responsible for translating requirements and compliance controls into technical implementation. They assist organizational control owners to become and stay compliant. They work with information technology (IT) personnel, business application owners, human resources, and legal stakeholders to implement technology that supports policies and controls necessary to sufficiently address regulatory requirements for their organization. They also work with the compliance and security leadership such as a Chief Compliance Officer and Security Officer to evaluate the full breadth of associated enterprise risk and partner to develop those policies. This person defines applicable requirements and tests IT processes and operations against those policies and controls. They are responsible for creating policies and rules for content classification, data loss prevention, governance, and protection.

Before attending this course, students should have:

• Foundational knowledge of Microsoft security and compliance technologies
• Basic knowledge of information protection concepts
• Understanding of cloud computing concepts
• Understanding of Microsoft 365 products and services

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Explain and use sensitivity labels.
• Configure Data Loss Prevention policies.
• Secure messages with Microsoft Purview
• Describe the information governance configuration process.
• Define key terms associated with Microsoft’s information protection and governance solutions.
• Explain the Content explorer and Activity explorer.
• Describe how to use sensitive information types and trainable classifiers.
• Review and analyze DLP reports.
• Identify and mitigate DLP policy violations.
• Describe the integration of DLP with Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps.
• Deploy Endpoint DLP
• Describe records management
• Configure event driven retention
• Import a file plan
• Configure retention policies and labels
• Create custom keyword dictionaries
• Implement document fingerprinting

Module 1: Implement Information Protection in Microsoft Purview