Microsoft Information Protection Administrator Training (SC-400)

Learn how to protect information in your Microsoft 365 deployment. This course focuses on data governance and information protection within your organisation. The course covers the implementation of data loss prevention policies, sensitive information types, sensitivity labels, data retention policies, and Office 365 message encryption, among other related topics. In addition, the course helps learners prepare for the Microsoft Information Protection Administrator exam (SC-400).

SC-400 Delivery Methods

• In-Person

• Online

SC-400 Course Information

• SC-400 Course Benefits

  • Explain and use sensitivity labels.
  • Configure Data Loss Prevention policies.
  • Secure messages in Office 365.
  • 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 analyse DLP reports.
  • Identify and mitigate DLP policy violations.
  • Describe the integration of DLP with Microsoft Cloud App Security (MCAS).
  • 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.
  • Continue learning and face new challenges with after-course one-on-one instructor coaching.

• SC-400 Course Prerequisites

  • 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.

• SC-400 Exam Information

  This course can help you prepare for the following Microsoft role-based certification exam SC-400: Microsoft Information Protection Administrator .

SC-400 Training Outline

Module 1: Implement Information Protection in Microsoft Purview

Organisations require information protection solutions to protect their data against theft and accidental loss. Learn how to protect your sensitive information. Learn how Microsoft Purview information protection and governance solutions help you protect and govern your data throughout its lifecycle – wherever it lives or travels. Learn about the information available to help you understand your data landscape and know your data. Learn how to use sensitive information types to support your information protection strategy. Learn how sensitivity labels are used to classify and protect business data while ensuring user productivity and collaboration ability is not hindered.

Lessons

• Introduction to information protection in Microsoft Purview
• Classify data for protection and governance
• Create and manage sensitive information types
• Describe Microsoft 365 encryption
• Deploy message encryption with Microsoft Purview
• Protect the information in Microsoft Purview
• Apply and manage sensitivity labels

Lab: Implement Information Protection

• Manage Compliance Roles
• Manage Microsoft Purview message encryption
• Manage Sensitive Information Types
• Manage Trainable Classifiers
• Manage Sensitivity Labels

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe Microsoft’s approach to information protection and governance.
• List the components of the Data Classification solution.
• Describe how to use sensitive information types and trainable classifiers.
• Implement document fingerprinting
• Create custom keyword dictionaries
• Deploy message encryption in Microsoft Purview

Module 2: Implement Data Loss Prevention

This module discusses implementing data loss prevention techniques to secure your Microsoft 365 data. First, learn how to discover, classify, and protect sensitive and business-critical content throughout its lifecycle across your organisation. Next, learn to configure and implement data loss prevention policies and integrate them with Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps. Finally, learn how to respond to and mitigate data loss policy violations.

Lessons

• Prevent Data loss with Microsoft Purview
• Implement Endpoint data loss prevention
• Configure DLP policies for Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps and Power Platform
• Manage DLP policies and reports in Microsoft Purview

Lab: Implement Data Loss Prevention

• Manage DLP policies
• Manage Endpoint DLP
• Manage DLP reports

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe the information protection configuration process.
• Articulate deployment and adoption of best practices.
• Describe the integration of DLP with Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps.
• Configure policies in Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps.
• Review and analyse DLP reports.
• Identify and mitigate DLP policy violations.
• Mitigate DLP violations in Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps.

Module 3: Implement Data Lifecycle and Records Management

In this module, you will learn how to plan and implement information governance strategies for an organisation. Learn how to manage your content lifecycle using solutions to import, store, and classify business-critical data so you can keep what you need and delete what you don't. Learn how to manage Retention for Microsoft 365 and how retention solutions are implemented in the individual Microsoft 365 services. Learn how to use intelligent classification to automate and simplify your organisation's retention schedule for regulatory, legal, and business-critical records.

Lessons

• Data Lifecycle Management in Microsoft Purview
• Manage data retention in Microsoft 365 workloads
• Manage records in Microsoft Purview

Lab: Implement Data Lifecycle and Records Management

• Configure Retention Labels
• Implement Retention Labels
• Configure Service-based Retention
• Configure event-based Retention
• Use eDiscovery for Recovery
• Configure Records Management

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe the information governance configuration process.
• Articulate deployment and adoption of best practices.
• Describe the retention features in Microsoft 365 workloads.
• Configure retention settings in Microsoft Teams and SharePoint Online.
• Implement Retention for Exchange Mailbox items.
• Recover content protected by retention settings.
• Regain protected items from Exchange Mailboxes.
• Describe the records management configuration process.