Microsoft Security Fundamentals (SC-900) Flashcards
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What is the purpose of Microsoft Purview Information Protection?
Answer: Classifying and protecting sensitive data through labels, encryption, and access restrictions
Microsoft Purview Information Protection applies sensitivity labels to documents and emails, enabling encryption and access restrictions that travel with the data.
What does Azure DDoS Protection Standard provide beyond Basic DDoS protection?
Answer: Adaptive tuning, attack analytics, mitigation reports, and SLA-backed financial protection
Azure DDoS Protection Standard adds intelligent adaptive tuning, detailed attack telemetry, and an SLA guarantee with cost protection against scaling charges during an attack.
Which Microsoft service detects anomalous behavior in SaaS applications and provides shadow IT discovery?
Answer: Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps is a Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) that provides visibility into SaaS app usage, detects threats, and enforces data control policies.
What is the shared responsibility model in cloud security?
Answer: Security responsibilities are divided between the cloud provider and the customer depending on service type
The shared responsibility model defines which security tasks are Microsoft's (physical infrastructure, hypervisor) and which are the customer's (data, identities, apps) based on service type.
What is a security benchmark in Microsoft Defender for Cloud?
Answer: A set of security best-practice recommendations that resources are evaluated against for compliance
Security benchmarks like the Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark provide a curated set of best-practice security controls that Defender for Cloud evaluates resources against.
What is Secure Score in Microsoft Defender for Cloud?
Answer: A numeric measure of an organization's security posture based on the percentage of security recommendations implemented
Secure Score aggregates security assessment findings into a percentage score, giving organizations a clear metric to track and improve their overall security posture.
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