Microsoft Information Protection Administrator (SC-400) Virtual Classroom Live March 31, 2025

Course Overview

1 - Introduction to information protection and data lifecycle management in Microsoft Purview

• Know your data
• Protect your data
• Prevent data loss
• Govern your data

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

3 - Create and manage sensitive information types

• Compare built-in versus custom sensitive information types
• Create and manage custom sensitive information types
• Describe custom sensitive information types with exact data match
• Implement document fingerprinting
• Describe named entities
• Create keyword dictionary

4 - Understand Microsoft 365 encryption

• Learn how Microsoft 365 data is encrypted at rest
• Understand service encryption in Microsoft Purview
• Explore customer key management using Customer Key
• Learn how data is encrypted in-transit

5 - Deploy Microsoft Purview Message Encryption

• Implement Microsoft Purview Message Encryption
• Implement Microsoft Purview Advanced Message Encryption
• Use Microsoft Purview Message Encryption templates in mail flow rules

6 - Create and configure sensitivity labels with Microsoft Purview

• Sensitivity label overview
• Create and configure sensitivity labels and label policies
• Configure encryption with sensitivity labels
• Implement auto-labeling policies
• Use the data classification dashboard to monitor sensitivity labels

7 - Apply sensitivity labels for data protection

• Foundations of sensitivity label integration in Microsoft 365
• Manage sensitivity labels in Office apps
• Apply sensitivity labels with Copilot for Microsoft 365 for secure collaboration
• Protect meetings with sensitivity labels
• Apply sensitivity labels to Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 groups, and SharePoint sites

8 - Prevent data loss in Microsoft Purview

• Data loss prevention overview
• Identify content to protect
• Identify sensitive data with optical character recognition (preview)
• Define policy settings for your DLP policy
• Test and create your DLP policy
• Prepare Endpoint DLP
• Manage DLP alerts in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal
• View data loss prevention reports
• Implement the Microsoft Purview Extension

9 - Configure DLP policies for Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps and Power Platform

• Configure data loss prevention policies for Power Platform
• Integrate data loss prevention in Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
• Configure policies in Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
• Manage data loss prevention violations in Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

10 - Manage data loss prevention policies and reports in Microsoft 365

• Configure data loss prevention for policy precedence
• Implement data loss prevention policies in test mode
• Explain data loss prevention reporting capabilities
• Manage permissions for data loss prevention reports
• Manage and respond to data loss prevention policy violations

11 - Manage the data lifecycle in Microsoft Purview

• Data Lifecycle Management overview
• Configure retention policies
• Configure retention labels
• Configure manual retention label policies
• Configure auto-apply retention label policies
• Import data for Data Lifecycle Management
• Manage, monitor, and remediate Data Lifecycle Management

12 - Manage data retention and deletion in Microsoft 365 workloads

• Explain retention in SharePoint Online and OneDrive
• Explain retention in Microsoft Teams
• Explain retention in Copilot for Microsoft 365
• Explain retention in Viva Engage
• Explain retention in Exchange Online
• Apply mailbox holds in Microsoft Exchange
• Recover content in Microsoft Exchange
• Recover content in Microsoft 365 workloads

13 - Manage records in Microsoft Purview

• Records management overview
• Import a file plan
• Configure retention labels
• Configure event driven retention
• Manage, monitor, and remediate records

14 - Explore compliance in Microsoft 365

• Plan for security and compliance in Microsoft 365
• Plan your beginning compliance tasks in Microsoft Purview
• Manage your compliance requirements with Compliance Manager
• Examine the Compliance Manager dashboard
• Analyze the Microsoft Compliance score

15 - Search for content in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal

• Explore Microsoft Purview eDiscovery solutions
• Create a content search
• View the search results and statistics
• Export the search results and search report
• Configure search permissions filtering
• Search for and delete email messages

16 - Manage Microsoft Purview eDiscovery (Standard)

• Explore Microsoft Purview eDiscovery solutions
• Implement Microsoft Purview eDiscovery (Standard)
• Create eDiscovery holds
• Search for content in a case
• Export content from a case
• Close, reopen, and delete a case

17 - Manage Microsoft Purview eDiscovery (Premium)

• Explore Microsoft Purview eDiscovery (Premium)
• Implement Microsoft Purview eDiscovery (Premium)
• Create and manage an eDiscovery (Premium) case
• Manage custodians and non-custodial data sources
• Analyze case content

18 - Search and investigate with Microsoft Purview Audit

• Microsoft Purview Audit overview
• Configure and manage Microsoft Purview Audit
• Conduct searches with Audit (Standard)
• Audit Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 interactions
• Investigate activities with Audit (Premium)
• Export audit log data
• Configure audit retention with Audit (Premium)

19 - Prepare Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance

• Plan for communication compliance
• Identify and resolve communication compliance workflow
• Case study--Configure an offensive language policy
• Investigate and remediate communication compliance alerts

20 - Manage insider risk in Microsoft Purview

• Insider risk management overview
• Create and manage insider risk policies
• Investigate insider risk alerts
• Take action on insider risk alerts through cases
• Manage insider risk management forensic evidence
• Create insider risk management notice templates

21 - Implement Adaptive Protection in Insider Risk Management

• Adaptive Protection Overview
• Understand and configure risk levels in Adaptive Protection
• Configure Adaptive Protection
• Manage Adaptive Protection

22 - Implement Microsoft Purview Information Barriers

• Explore Microsoft Purview Information Barriers
• Configure information barriers in Microsoft Purview
• Examine information barriers in Microsoft Teams
• Examine information barriers in OneDrive
• Examine information barriers in SharePoint

23 - Manage regulatory and privacy requirements with Microsoft Priva

• Create and manage risk management policies
• Investigate and remediate risk management alerts
• Create rights requests
• Manage data estimate and retrieval for rights requests
• Review data from rights requests
• Get reports from rights requests

24 - Implement privileged access management

• Case study--Implementing privileged access management

25 - Manage Customer Lockbox

• Manage Customer Lockbox requests

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.