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Microsoft Certified: Information Security Administrator Associate (SC-401)

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As an Information Security Administrator, you plan and implement information security of sensitive data by using Microsoft Purview and related services.

4 Days

Live on Teams

£1,250.00

Exam voucher Included

Training Overview

As an Information Security Administrator, you plan and implement information security of sensitive data by using Microsoft Purview and related services. You’re responsible for mitigating risks by protecting data inside collaboration environments that are managed by Microsoft 365 from internal and external threats and protecting data used by AI services. You also implement information protection, data loss prevention, retention, insider risk management, and manage information security alerts and activities.


You work with other roles that are responsible for governance, data, and security to evaluate and develop policies to address an organisation’s information security and risk reduction goals. You collaborate with workload administrators, business application owners, and governance stakeholders to implement technology solutions that support the necessary policies and controls. This role also participates in responding to information security incidents.


You should be familiar with all Microsoft 365 services, PowerShell, Microsoft Entra, the Microsoft Defender portal, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps.

Course Agenda

Implement and manage data classification

  • Identify sensitive information requirements for an organisation's data

  • Translate sensitive information requirements into built-in or custom sensitive info types

  • Create and manage custom sensitive info types

  • Implement document fingerprinting

  • Create and manage exact data match (EDM) classifiers

  • Create and manage trainable classifiers

  • Monitor data classification and label usage by using data explorer and content explorer

  • Configure optical character recognition (OCR) support for sensitive info types


Implement and manage sensitivity labels in Microsoft Purview

  • Implement roles and permissions for administering sensitivity labels

  • Define and create sensitivity labels for items and containers

  • Configure protection settings and content marking for sensitivity labels

  • Configure and manage publishing policies for sensitivity labels

  • Configure and manage auto-labeling policies for sensitivity labels

  • Apply a sensitivity label to containers, such as Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 Groups, Microsoft Power BI, and Microsoft SharePoint

  • Apply sensitivity labels by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps


Implement information protection for Windows, file shares, and Exchange

  • Plan and implement the Microsoft Purview Information Protection client

  • Manage files by using the Microsoft Purview Information Protection client

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