Top 10 Security Features to Enable within Microsoft 365

Course details

Microsoft 365 offers a suite of robust software and services that you can configure to suit your needs. The area of security is near the top of everyone’s priority list, but with so many features, you may find yourself unclear over which options to choose. In this course, Microsoft MVP Liam Cleary shares his top 10 security controls that you should enable in your Microsoft 365 tenant. He starts with the core security categories and controls of Microsoft 365 that are available out of the box. He then shows how to enable the standard features to help protect user passwords, control access to the tenant, block data leakage, control device access, and manage external sharing capabilities.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Secure Microsoft 365 with these tips
02 - What you should know

1. Security Features within Microsoft 365

03 - Understanding core Microsoft 365 security
04 - Protecting account logins
05 - Blocking access to applications and services
06 - Controlling the flow of data
07 - Protecting external access

2. Protecting User Accounts and Passwords

08 - Managing and protecting user accounts
09 - Multi-factor authentication advantages
10 - Enabling multi-factor authentication
11 - Managing account passwords
12 - Configuring password expiration
13 - Banning passwords

3. Controlling Access to Microsoft 365

14 - Understanding Conditional Access
15 - Blocking legacy authentication
16 - Identifying applications that use legacy authentication
17 - Configuring policies to block legacy authentication
18 - Managing access with Conditional Access
19 - Create base Conditional Access policies

4. Blocking Data Leakage

20 - How does data leak within Exchange Online
21 - Exchange Online core protections
22 - Understanding transport rules
23 - Blocking forwarding of email

5. Controlling Device Access

24 - Mobile device management within Microsoft 365
25 - Supporting bring your own device (BYOD)
26 - Mobile device management capabilities
27 - Mobile application management capabilities
28 - Creating mobile application policies

6. Managing External Sharing Capabilities

29 - Understanding external sharing in Microsoft 365
30 - Allowing external access
31 - Controlling external access
32 - Restricting external access within SharePoint Online
33 - Restricting external access within OneDrive for Business
34 - Managing external access within Microsoft Teams

Conclusion

35 - Next steps

Top 10 Security Features to Enable within Microsoft 365

Authors

Liam Cleary