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Microsoft

Manage information protection and governance

Microsoft via Microsoft Learn

Overview

  • Module 1: Learn how Microsoft 365 information protection and governance solutions help you protect and govern your data, throughout its lifecycle – wherever it lives, or wherever it travels.
  • Upon completion of this module, you should be able to:

    • Discuss information protection and governance and why it’s important.
    • Describe Microsoft’s approach to information protection and governance.
    • Define key terms associated with Microsoft’s information protection and governance solutions.
    • Identify the solutions that comprise information and governance in Microsoft 365.
  • Module 2: Learn about the information available to help you understand your data landscape and know your data.
  • Upon completion of this module, you should be able to:

    • List the components of the Data Classification solution.
    • Identify the cards available on the Data Classification overview tab.
    • Explain the Content explorer and Activity explorer.
    • Describe how to use sensitive information types and trainable classifiers.
  • Module 3: Learn how to detect sensitive content as it's used and shared throughout your organization, in the cloud and on devices, and help prevent accidental data loss.
  • Upon completion of this module, you should be able to:

    • Discuss the information protection solution and its benefits.
    • List the customer scenarios the information protection solution addresses.
    • Describe the information protection configuration process.
    • Explain what users will experience when the solution is implemented.
    • Articulate deployment and adoption best practices.
  • Module 4: Learn how to discover, classify, and protect sensitive and business-critical content throughout its lifecycle across your organization.
  • When you finish with this module, you'll be able to:

    • Discuss the data loss prevention solution and its benefits.
    • Describe the data loss prevention configuration process.
    • Explain what users will experience when the solution is implemented.
  • Module 5: 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.
  • Upon completion of this module, you should be able to:

    • Discuss the information governance solution and its benefits.
    • List the customer scenarios the information governance solution addresses.
    • Describe the information governance configuration process.
    • Explain what users will experience when the solution is implemented.
    • Articulate deployment and adoption best practices.
  • Module 6: Learn how to use intelligent classification to automate and simplify the retention schedule for regulatory, legal, and business-critical records in your organization.
  • Upon completion of this module, you should be able to:

    • Discuss the records management solution and its benefits.
    • List the customer scenarios the records management solution addresses.
    • Describe the records management configuration process.
    • Explain what users will experience when the solution is implemented.
    • Articulate deployment and adoption best practices.
  • Module 7: Learn the key considerations for transitioning your organization from using Azure Information Protection to Microsoft Information Protection.
  • Upon completion of this module, you should be able to:

    • Articulate the importance of transitioning to Microsoft Information Protection.
    • List benefits of transitioning to Microsoft Information Protection.
    • Explain the key considerations for making the transition.
    • Identify steps for transitioning to Microsoft Information Protection.

Syllabus

  • Module 1: Introduction to information protection and governance in Microsoft 365
    • Introduction to information and governance in Microsoft 365
    • Know your data
    • Protect your data
    • Prevent data loss
    • Govern your data
    • Summary and knowledge check
  • Module 2: Classify data for protection and governance
    • Data classification overview
    • Classify data using sensitive information types
    • Classify data using trainable classifiers
    • Review sensitive information and label usage
    • Explore labeled and sensitive content
    • Understand activities related to your data
    • Summary and knowledge check
  • Module 3: Protect information in Microsoft 365
    • Information protection overview
    • Configure sensitivity labels
    • Configure sensitivity label policies
    • Configure auto-labeling policies
    • Manage, monitor, and remediate information protection
    • Summary and knowledge check
  • Module 4: Prevent data loss in Microsoft 365
    • Introduction
    • Data loss prevention overview
    • Identify content to protect
    • Define policy settings for your DLP policy
    • Test and create your DLP policy
    • Prepare Endpoint DLP
    • Manage DLP alerts in the Microsoft 365 compliance center
    • View data loss prevention reports
    • Knowledge check
    • Summary
  • Module 5: Govern information in Microsoft 365
    • Information governance overview
    • Configure retention policies
    • Configure retention labels
    • Configure manual retention label policies
    • Configure auto-apply retention label policies
    • Import data for information governance
    • Manage, monitor, and remediate information governance
    • Summary and knowledge check
  • Module 6: Manage records in Microsoft 365
    • Introduction
    • Records management overview
    • Import a file plan
    • Configure retention labels
    • Configure event driven retention
    • Manage, monitor, and remediate records
    • Summary and knowledge check
  • Module 7: Transition from Azure Information Protection to Microsoft Information Protection
    • Microsoft label management journey overview
    • Evaluate Windows labeling client alternatives
    • Transition from Azure Information Protection to Microsoft Information Protection
    • Summary and knowledge check

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