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Guidance for establishing a Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management (IRM) baseline - detecting and managing risky insider activity (data theft, leaks, policy violations) with privacy-by-design. Covers prerequisites, HR connector, policy templates,…
Guidance for advanced Microsoft Purview DLP capabilities - Adaptive Protection (risk-based DLP driven by Insider Risk), Exact Data Match, contextual conditions, and advanced Endpoint DLP egress controls. Covers dynamic, risk-adaptive enforcement and…
Guidance for securing and governing AI agents (Microsoft 365 Copilot agents, Copilot Studio agents, and Security Copilot agents) with Microsoft Purview - applying DSPM for AI, DLP, sensitivity labels, Communication Compliance, and audit to agent data…
Guidance for Microsoft Purview Audit (Standard and Premium) - logging and searching user/admin activity across Microsoft 365 for investigations and compliance. Covers tier differences, default and extended retention, high-value events, audit search UX, Office…
Guidance for assessing and remediating oversharing before and during Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption, using SharePoint Advanced Management (SAM), sensitivity labels, restricted content discovery, and DLP for Copilot so Copilot only surfaces content users…
Guidance for Microsoft Purview data classification and sensitivity labels - sensitive information types (SITs), trainable classifiers, exact data match, and sensitivity label taxonomy with auto-labelling. Covers building a label taxonomy, picking detection…
Guidance for Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management and Records Management - retention labels and policies to retain and delete content across Microsoft 365, plus declaring records. Covers retention strategy, adaptive vs static scopes, principle of…
Guidance for the Microsoft Purview Data Map - the foundation that scans and maps data sources across multicloud and on-premises estates to power cataloging and governance. Covers source registration, integration runtimes (managed vs self-hosted), scan rule…
Guidance for designing baseline Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies across Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, and Endpoint. Covers locations, conditions (SITs/labels/classifiers), severity-tiered actions, simulation mode, exception…
Guidance for Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI (DSPM for AI) - discovering, monitoring, and protecting sensitive data interactions with generative AI apps like Microsoft 365 Copilot, Security Copilot, Copilot Studio agents, and…
Guidance for Microsoft Purview eDiscovery (unified experience consolidating prior Standard and Premium) - identifying, preserving, collecting, reviewing, analysing, and exporting content across Microsoft 365 for legal cases, regulatory requests, and…
Guidance for applying Microsoft Purview data security and compliance across Microsoft 365 workloads (Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams) - coordinating labels, DLP, retention, and Copilot data protection per workload with each workload's distinct…
Guidance for an end-to-end Microsoft Purview information governance / information protection strategy - sequencing classification, labelling, protection, lifecycle, and risk into a coherent program aligned to the Zero Trust data pillar. Covers maturity-based…
Guidance for securing Azure App Service web apps and APIs — managed identity, Easy Auth with Microsoft Entra ID, network isolation via private endpoints + VNet integration, HTTPS / TLS hardening, Key Vault references for secrets, and front-end WAF (Front Door…
Guidance for Azure Arc — projecting on-premises, multicloud (AWS/GCP), and edge servers, Kubernetes, and data services into Azure Resource Manager for unified governance, security, and management. Covers Arc-enabled servers onboarding, extending Defender for…
Guidance for Azure Firewall — managed cloud-native L3-L7 stateful network firewall for centralised egress, east-west, and ingress control. Covers SKU choice (Basic vs Standard vs Premium), Firewall Policy hierarchy, application/network/DNAT rules, threat…
Guidance for Azure Key Vault — securely storing and managing secrets, keys, and certificates with RBAC, network isolation, managed identity access, soft delete / purge protection, and rotation. Covers when to use standard Key Vault vs Managed HSM (FIPS 140-3…
Guidance for designing secure Azure network architecture — hub-spoke topology (or Virtual WAN), segmentation with NSGs/ASGs, private endpoints / Private Link for PaaS, egress through Azure Firewall, DDoS protection, WAF on Front Door/App Gateway, and…
Guidance for Azure Policy — enforcing and auditing governance and security guardrails at scale across Azure with definitions, initiatives, assignments, and remediation tasks. Covers effects (Audit, Deny, Append, Modify, DeployIfNotExists, AuditIfNotExists),…
Guidance for Azure Site Recovery (ASR) — disaster-recovery-as-a-service that replicates Azure VMs and on-premises machines to a secondary region for orchestrated failover. Covers RPO / RTO design, replication setup, recovery plans with start-up ordering and…
Guidance for designing BitLocker drive encryption for Windows endpoints managed via Microsoft Intune — encryption policy, silent enablement, recovery key escrow to Entra ID, TPM, pre-boot authentication trade-offs, and BitLocker To Go for removable media.…
Guidance for Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps (MDA) — the CASB for SaaS discovery, app governance, session controls, and threat detection. Covers Cloud Discovery via Defender for Endpoint integration, OAuth app governance, Conditional Access App Control…
Guidance for Microsoft Defender for Cloud — cloud security posture management (CSPM) and cloud workload protection (CWPP) across Azure, AWS, and GCP. Covers Foundational vs Defender CSPM, Secure Score, Defender plans (Servers, Storage, Containers, Databases,…
Guidance for Microsoft Intune app protection policies (MAM) — protecting corporate data inside mobile apps with or without device enrollment. Covers MAM-WE for BYOD vs APP on managed devices, data-relocation controls (cut/copy/paste, Save As, encryption), app…
Guidance for Microsoft Intune device management — enrollment, configuration, compliance, and security baselines across Windows, macOS, iOS/iPadOS, and Android. Covers Autopilot vs corporate-vs-BYOD enrollment, compliance policies that feed Conditional Access,…
Guidance for Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management (PIM) — just-in-time, time-bound, approval-based, audited elevation for Entra roles, Azure resource roles, and privileged groups. Covers eligible vs active assignments, activation controls (MFA +…
Guidance for Microsoft Entra Conditional Access (CA) and multifactor authentication — the Zero Trust policy engine that enforces grant/block decisions based on user, device, location, app, and risk signals. Covers a baseline 6-policy set, authentication…
Guidance for Microsoft Entra ID Governance — automating identity lifecycle and access with entitlement management (access packages), access reviews, lifecycle workflows for joiner-mover-leaver, separation of duties, and guest access governance. Covers when to…
Guidance for Microsoft Entra ID Protection — risk-based identity security that detects user and sign-in risk and automates remediation. Covers risk detections, risk-based Conditional Access, self-remediation via MFA / secure password change, risky-user…
Guidance for Microsoft Entra Permissions Management (CIEM) — discovers, right-sizes, and monitors permissions across Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud. Covers cloud onboarding, the Permission Creep Index (PCI), generating least-privilege policies from…
Guidance for designing Privileged Access Workstations (PAW) and the Microsoft privileged access strategy (enterprise access model, clean source principle, tiered admin isolation). Covers when to use Enterprise vs Specialized vs Privileged device profiles,…
Guidance for designing public key infrastructure (PKI) and certificate management on Azure and hybrid environments. Covers CA strategy (offline root + issuing CAs, AD CS vs managed/third-party vs public CA), Azure Key Vault certificates, HSM key protection,…
Guidance for Windows Hello for Business (WHfB) — passwordless, phishing-resistant authentication using a PIN or biometric backed by an asymmetric key or certificate. Covers trust model selection (cloud Kerberos trust default for hybrid; key trust legacy;…
Guidance for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) — enterprise endpoint security with next-gen AV, EDR, attack surface reduction (ASR), Defender Vulnerability Management, automated investigation and remediation (AIR), and live response. Covers Plan 1 vs Plan…
Guidance for Microsoft Defender for Identity (MDI) — identity threat detection (ITDR) across on-premises Active Directory, AD CS, AD FS, and Entra Connect using sensors. Covers sensor placement, prerequisites, posture assessments, and lateral-movement…
Guidance for Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (MDO) — protection for email and collaboration (Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive) against phishing, malware, spoofing, and business email compromise. Covers Plan 1 vs Plan 2 selection, preset security policies…
Guidance for Microsoft Defender XDR — the unified extended detection and response suite that correlates signals across endpoints, identities, email, and cloud apps into prioritised incidents with attack-graph context. Covers onboarding the four core…
Guidance for Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) — cloud identity and access management and the control plane for Zero Trust. Covers tenant and identity model, authentication methods (passkeys, FIDO2, certificate-based), hybrid identity with Entra Connect…
Guidance for designing and operating Microsoft Sentinel, the cloud-native SIEM and SOAR delivered through the Defender portal. Covers workspace design, data connectors, ingestion tiers (Analytics/Basic/Auxiliary/ADX), analytics rules, hunting, watchlists,…
Guidance for the Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark (MCSB) — Microsoft's canonical set of cloud security best-practice controls mapped to industry frameworks and monitored in Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Covers control domains, applying the benchmark, and…