This is a list of Office 365 and Microsoft cloud security resources that I compiled during research for my Office 365 security course at Pluralsight.

I will be maintaining this list as new resources surface. If you have suggestions that you’d like to see included, you can let me know here.

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Email Protection

Office 365 provides customers with protection from email-borne threats with Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (ATP).

Tools

Exchange Online Protection

Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)

Email Spoofing and Impersonation

Phishing

Ransomware

Endpoint Security and Management

Device security is one of the three pillars of modern IT security. You can protect your endpoints using Windows Defender, Windows Defender ATP, and Microsoft Intune.

Windows Defender

Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (WD ATP)

Microsoft Intune

User and Administrative Access

Identity protection is one of the three pillars of modern IT security. You cna protect your Office 365 identities using Azure Active Directory, Azure MFA, Conditional Access, Identity Protection, and Privileged Identity Management.

Best Practices

Azure Active Directory

Azure Multi-Factor Authentication

Azure Active Directory Conditional Access

Azure AD Identity Protection

Privileged Identity Management

Information Protection

Information protection is one of the three pillars of modern IT security. You can protect your corporate data using Office 365 DLP, Azure Information Protection, and Office 365 Message Encryption.

Office 365 Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

Azure Information Protection

Office 365 Message Encryption

Monitoring, Auditing, and Alerting

Monitoring and auditing are critical to maintaining awareness of activity in your organization.

Tools

Azure Advanced Threat Protection (Azure ATP)

Security Reports

Auditing

Blogs, Podcasts and Videos

These resources will help you to keep up with developments in the world of Office 365 security.

Books and Training Courses

These training courses will help you expand your security knowledge for Office 365, Windows, and more.

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