Microsoft Information Security Administrator

Learning Path: Implement Microsoft Purview Information Protection

Organizations need effective information protection to prevent data exposure, ensure compliance, and maintain security across cloud and on-premises environments. Microsoft Purview enables classification, labeling, and encryption to safeguard sensitive data across Microsoft 365 services, Exchange, and on-premises storage.

Modules

• Protect sensitive data in a digital world
• Classify data for protection and governance
• Review and analyze data classification and protection
• Create and manage sensitive information types
• Create and manage sensitivity labels with Microsoft Purview
• Apply and manage sensitivity labels
• Describe Microsoft 365 encryption
• Deploy message encryption in Microsoft Purview

Lab

• Implement Information Protection

Learning Path: Implement and manage data loss prevention

Organizations must prevent data loss and protect sensitive information across cloud and endpoint environments. Microsoft Purview provides data loss prevention (DLP) policies to detect, restrict, and respond to risky activities involving sensitive data. Learn how to plan and configure DLP policies, track policy effectiveness, and analyze data security risks to improve your organization's protection strategy.

Modules

• Plan and design data loss prevention policies
• Create and manage DLP policies
• Implement Endpoint data loss prevention
• Investigate Microsoft Purview DLP alerts

Lab

• Implement and manage data loss prevention

Learning Path: Implement and manage Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management

Implement Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management to detect, investigate, and respond to internal risks while protecting data, ensuring compliance, and maintaining employee trust.

Modules

• Plan and prepare for Insider Risk Management
• Prepare for insider risk management
• Create and manage insider risk policies
• Manage the insider risk management workflow
• Investigate insider risk management activities
• Implement Adaptive Protection in Insider Risk Management

Lab

• Implement and manage Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management

Learning Path: Protect data in AI environments with Microsoft Purview

AI tools like Microsoft Copilot are changing the way people work, but they also increase the risk of oversharing and accidental data exposure. Microsoft Purview helps organizations apply the right controls to keep sensitive data protected across AI-enabled environments.

Modules

• Discover AI interactions with Microsoft Purview
• Protect sensitive data from AI-related risks
• Govern AI usage with Microsoft Purview
• Assess and mitigate AI risks with Microsoft Purview

Lab

• Protect data in AI environments with Microsoft Purview

Learning Path: Implement and manage retention and recovery in Microsoft Purview

Learn how Microsoft Purview supports data lifecycle management through retention policies and labels. Understand how to configure and apply retention settings that meet organizational requirements for preserving or deleting content across Microsoft 365 services.

Modules

• Understand retention in Microsoft Purview
• Implement and manage retention and recovery in Microsoft Purview

Lab

• Implement and manage retention and recovery in Microsoft Purview

Learning Path: Audit and search activity in Microsoft Purview

Understand how to use Microsoft Purview to log activity and search for content across Microsoft 365 services. Learn how audit logging supports investigations and compliance requirements, and how content search can help locate specific emails, documents, and other items when needed.

Modules

• Search and investigate with Microsoft Purview Audit
• Search for content with Microsoft Purview eDiscovery

Lab

• Audit and search activity in Microsoft Purview

Learning Path: Validate sensitivity, DLP, and retention policies

Verify that the policies you configured, sensitivity labels, DLP, and retention, are working as expected in Microsoft 365 apps. This exercise helps confirm that content is:

Modules

• None

Lab

• Validate sensitivity, DLP, and retention policies