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SC-401: Administering Information Security in Microsoft 365
The SC-401: Administering Information Security in Microsoft 365 course is designed for security and compliance professionals who are responsible for protecting sensitive organizational data, managing information risk, and enforcing compliance controls across Microsoft 365 environments. This course is aligned with the Microsoft Certified: Information Security Administrator Associate role and prepares learners for the SC-401 certification exam.The Information Security Administrator plays a pivotal role in translating organizational, regulatory, and compliance requirements into technical controls. In this course, you will learn how to design and implement policies for content classification, sensitivity labeling, data loss prevention, retention, insider risk management, auditing, and investigation, ensuring that security controls align with business and regulatory expectations.
By the end of this course, learners will be equipped with the skills required to plan, implement, monitor, and improve information security controls in Microsoft 365, and will be well prepared to attempt the SC-401: Administering Information Security in Microsoft 365 certification exam using Microsoft Purview and related security services.This course focuses on the three core capability areas
- Implementing information protection
- Implementing data loss prevention (DLP) and retention
- Managing risks, alerts, and security activities
Who should attend SC-401: Administering Information Security in Microsoft 365 course ?
For Professionals
The course is ideal for Information Security Administrators, Microsoft 365 Security and Compliance Administrators, IT and Security Professionals, Compliance and Governance Professionals, Risk and Insider Threat Practitioners, Consultants and Solution Architects, Professionals preparing for the SC-401 certification exam
For Businesses
For SC-401: Administering Information Security in Microsoft 365, companies should nominate people who design, enforce, or monitor data protection and compliance controls, not general end users.
Prerequisites for the "SC-401: Administering Information Security in Microsoft 365" Certification Course
Before attending this course, students should have:
- 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.
Key Features of Flexmind SC-401 Training
This training is delivered by Flexmind through flexible online and offline formats and is designed to align with the most current certification exam requirements. The key features of this training are as follows:
Course Duration
The course has a total duration of 32 hours and is completed over 4 days.
Instructor-Led Training
Delivered by a senior Microsoft Certified Trainer with real-world, enterprise-scale experience in Microsoft Purview and Microsoft 365 security.
Microsoft Official Courseware
Delivered by Flexmind using official Microsoft courseware, this program blends study material, hands‑on labs, and applied workshops with instructor-led guidance throughout.
Applied Workshop
The final‑day applied workshop allows learners to practice their skills by selecting a scenario and building a complete solution, including any required automation.
Course Completion Certificate
Course completion includes certification, formally validating the skills gained and reinforcing professional credibility.
Course Outline
Module 1: Implement Information Protection
- Protect sensitive data in a digital world, including cloud, collaboration, and AI-driven data risks
- Classify data for protection and governance using sensitive information types and trainable classifiers
- Review and analyze data classification and protection using Microsoft Purview reports, Data Explorer, Content Explorer, and Activity Explorer
- Create and manage sensitive information types, including custom SITs, keyword dictionaries, exact data match (EDM), and document fingerprinting
- Create, configure, and administer sensitivity labels with encryption, access controls, visual markings, and label policies
- Apply and manage sensitivity labels across Microsoft 365 apps, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Groups, meetings, and containers
- Protect data in cloud and SaaS applications using Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps and label-based governance
- Classify and protect on-premises data using the Microsoft Purview Information Protection scanner
- Understand encryption in Microsoft 365, including data at rest, data in transit, and identity-based encryption
- Deploy and manage Microsoft Purview Message Encryption using mail flow rules, branding templates, and advanced encryption controls
- Secure sensitive data used by AI workloads and Microsoft 365 Copilot through labeling, DLP, and governance controls
- Lab: Prepare the Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview environment for information security administration
- Lab: Manage compliance and security roles in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview
- Lab: Create and manage sensitive information types, including custom, EDM, and keyword-based classifiers
- Lab: Create, publish, and apply sensitivity labels with encryption and auto-labeling policies
- Lab: Deploy Microsoft Purview Message Encryption with mail flow rules and custom branding
Module 2: Implement and manage data loss prevention
- Plan and design data loss prevention policies by identifying sensitive data, defining protection goals, selecting workloads, and validating policies using simulation mode
- Prepare the Microsoft 365 environment for DLP by configuring licensing, roles, audit logging, alerts, notifications, policy tips, and override workflows
- Create and manage DLP policies using templates or custom configurations, including scope, conditions, actions, user notifications, and enforcement strategies
- Integrate Adaptive Protection with DLP to adjust enforcement based on insider risk levels and apply differentiated actions for high-risk users
- Enforce DLP across cloud and SaaS applications using file policies in Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps with remediation, governance, and alert integration
- Use DLP analytics to identify oversharing risks, receive policy recommendations, and refine detection accuracy based on real user activity
- Analyze DLP alerts and activity using dashboards, Activity Explorer, and incident data to investigate violations and improve policy effectiveness
- Investigate and respond to Microsoft Purview DLP alerts by reviewing alert lifecycle stages, correlating events, and taking remediation actions in Purview and Defender XDR
- Implement endpoint data loss prevention by onboarding devices, configuring endpoint settings, creating device-based DLP policies, and enforcing controls on USB, browsers, clipboard, and network actions
- Extend DLP enforcement to browsers using the Microsoft Purview browser extension and configure just-in-time (JIT) protection to delay risky actions until classification completes
- Lab – Implement and manage DLP policies using simulation mode, enforcement tuning, PowerShell deployment, and Defender for Cloud Apps file policies
- Lab – Implement and manage endpoint DLP by onboarding devices, blocking sensitive actions, configuring browser enforcement, and validating policy behavior
Module 3: Implement and manage retention and recovery in Microsoft Purview
- Understand retention in Microsoft Purview, including how retention supports data governance, investigations, security operations, and the end-to-end data lifecycle
- Differentiate between retention labels and retention policies, and apply retain-only, delete-only, or retain-then-delete behaviors across Microsoft 365 workloads
- Decide when to apply retention by understanding what retention preserves, its limitations, and how it complements data loss prevention and sensitivity labels
- Plan retention and disposition using retention labels by identifying content types, defining retention periods, start events, and deletion behaviors
- Create and publish retention labels to classify and govern emails, documents, Teams messages, and Microsoft 365 content
- Configure and manage auto-apply retention labels using sensitive information types, keywords, classifiers, and simulation mode
- Create and configure adaptive scopes to dynamically target users, groups, or sites based on directory and site attributes
- Create and configure retention policies to apply default retention rules across Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, and Microsoft 365 Groups
- Understand retention label and policy precedence and how Microsoft Purview resolves conflicts when multiple retention settings apply
- Recover retained or deleted content using Microsoft 365 recovery tools such as Recycle Bin, Version History, and OneDrive Restore
- Lab – Implement and manage retention and recovery by creating retention labels, publishing label policies, applying auto-labeling, configuring adaptive scopes, and restoring deleted SharePoint content
Module 4: Implement and manage Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management
- Plan and prepare for Insider Risk Management by configuring audit logging, assigning roles, defining stakeholders, setting detection thresholds, and aligning privacy controls
- Understand insider risks including malicious and accidental behaviors, risk indicators, user activity patterns, and privacy-preserving detection principles
- Configure and manage insider risk data connectors by integrating HR systems, healthcare audit logs, physical badging systems, cloud apps, and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
- Create and manage Insider Risk Management policies using policy templates, quick policies, and custom policies with scoped users, indicators, triggers, thresholds, and content prioritization
- Manage insider risk policies by reviewing policy health, updating scope and indicators, duplicating policies, and removing policies when no longer required
- Configure forensic evidence to capture detailed activity for high-risk investigations using controlled collection, dual authorization, and privacy safeguards
- Manage the insider risk management workflow by detecting risks, analyzing user activity, prioritizing alerts, investigating cases, notifying users, and optimizing detection logic
- Use Insider Risk Management reports and dashboards to analyze alerts, cases, user activity trends, and analytics for continuous policy refinement
- Configure browser signal detection to capture risky activities such as cloud uploads, printing, USB transfers, and visits to high-risk websites
- Investigate insider risk alerts using alert dashboards, Activity Explorer, User Activity timelines, All Risk Factors, Data Risk Graph, and Microsoft Defender XDR correlation
- Create and manage insider risk cases to document investigations, assign ownership, send notices, escalate to eDiscovery, and track remediation actions
- Implement Adaptive Protection in Insider Risk Management by defining risk levels, configuring risk-based enforcement, and integrating with DLP, Data Lifecycle Management, and Conditional Access
- Manage Adaptive Protection by reviewing user risk levels, validating enforcement impact, and tuning risk criteria and enforcement mappings
- Lab – Implement and manage Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management by assigning roles, enabling indicators, integrating data connectors, creating policies, configuring notices, and investigating alerts
- Lab – Implement Adaptive Protection by mapping insider risk levels to DLP policies, configuring Conditional Access, enabling risk-based enforcement, and validating adaptive controls
Module 5: Audit and search activity in Microsoft Purview
- Search and investigate user and admin activity using Microsoft Purview Audit to track who accessed content, when it was accessed, from where, and across which Microsoft 365 services
- Analyze audit logs to identify suspicious or irregular behavior by filtering on users, files, workloads, IP addresses, and activity types
- Differentiate between Microsoft Purview Audit (Standard) and Audit (Premium), including retention periods, investigation depth, export limits, and compliance use cases
- Configure and manage Microsoft Purview Audit by verifying licensing, enabling audit logging, assigning Audit Reader and Audit Manager roles, and managing access controls
- Conduct audit searches using the Purview portal or PowerShell to investigate compliance events, security incidents, and administrative changes
- Investigate advanced activity using Audit (Premium), including detailed mailbox access, bulk operations, deduplication, and high-volume log ingestion
- Export audit log data to CSV and analyze results using Excel, Power Query, Power BI, or external SIEM tools for forensic and compliance investigations
- Configure custom audit log retention policies using Audit (Premium) to meet regulatory, legal, and long-term investigation requirements
- Support investigations with Microsoft Purview Content search by locating emails, documents, Teams messages, and files across Microsoft 365 workloads
- Understand how Content search and eDiscovery work together, using Content search for rapid investigations and eDiscovery cases for legal holds, structured review, and defensible export
- Configure prerequisites and role-based access for Content search by assigning eDiscovery Manager and eDiscovery Administrator roles
- Create and run Content searches using keywords, conditions, KeyQL, Copilot-generated prompts, scoped locations, and statistics previews
- Export Content search results with workload-specific options, including PST, MSG, metadata, version history, and threaded messages for investigation or documentation
- Lab – Search the Audit log by investigating DLP-related activities, exporting audit records, and configuring audit retention policies for long-term investigations
- Lab – Perform a Content search by assigning eDiscovery permissions, running targeted searches across Microsoft 365 content, and reviewing results to identify potential data exposure
Module 6: Secure AI interactions and environments with Microsoft Purview
- Understand Microsoft Purview protections for AI by identifying AI security and compliance risks, visibility gaps, data exposure, and governance challenges introduced by AI usage
- Secure AI interactions using Microsoft Purview by discovering AI usage, protecting sensitive content, governing AI-generated output, detecting unsafe behavior, and applying consistent controls across AI environments
- Use Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) for AI to understand AI usage patterns, identify exposure risks, review assessments, and activate recommended protections across Microsoft and third-party AI tools
- Discover AI interactions in Microsoft Purview by analyzing reports, reviewing app and agent activity, investigating AI-related events in Activity explorer, and validating activity with Audit
- Evaluate oversharing and AI-related data exposure risks using DSPM for AI data risk assessments, exposure signals, and access condition analysis
- Protect sensitive data in AI interactions using sensitivity labels, Data Loss Prevention (DLP) controls, browser and endpoint protections, one-click AI policies, and risk-based enforcement
- Govern AI prompts and responses by applying retention policies, using collection policies for non-Microsoft 365 AI tools, and reviewing AI-generated content with eDiscovery
- Make governance decisions for AI-generated content by determining what to retain, review, delete, or validate across the AI content lifecycle
- Detect and address risky AI use by correlating signals from DLP, Insider Risk Management, Communication Compliance, and Audit to investigate unsafe prompts, responses, and behaviors
- Respond dynamically to AI-related risk using Adaptive Protection to adjust enforcement levels based on user risk and reduce exposure during high-risk AI interactions
- Lab – Protect data in AI environments with Microsoft Purview by creating DLP policies for generative AI, detecting risky AI usage with Insider Risk Management, running data assessments, and validating AI protections
Module 7: Validate sensitivity, DLP, and retention policies
- Validate sensitivity labels to ensure content is correctly classified, protected, and enforced in Microsoft Word
- Validate Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies by confirming sensitive data is detected and blocked when shared through Outlook
- Validate retention policies to ensure content is retained and labeled appropriately in SharePoint locations
- Lab – Validate sensitivity, DLP, and retention policies by verifying end‑user policy behavior across Word, Outlook, and SharePoint
Class Schedule
Instructor‑Led Training
- 32 Hours of Instructor‑Led Training
- One‑to‑one doubt‑resolution sessions
- Microsoft Official Lab Access
Learning Objectives
After completing the SC-401 course, learners will be able to:
- Implement information protection using Microsoft Purview to classify, label, and protect sensitive data across Microsoft 365 and AI workloads.
- Configure Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies to detect and prevent unauthorized sharing of sensitive information across email, endpoints, browsers, cloud apps, and AI tools.
- Plan and manage data retention, audit, and eDiscovery to support regulatory compliance, investigations, and data lifecycle governance.
- Detect and investigate risky user behavior using Insider Risk Management, Audit, and Activity Explorer while maintaining privacy controls.
- Secure AI and Copilot interactions by discovering AI usage, protecting sensitive data in prompts and responses, and governing AI-generated content with DSPM for AI.
- Apply Adaptive Protection to dynamically adjust enforcement based on user risk and reduce exposure during high-risk activities.
About SC-401 Certification Exam
To help you understand the assessment better, here are a few important details about the exam.
| Exam Name | SC-401: Administering Information Security in Microsoft 365 |
|---|---|
| Who should Apply | Administrator |
| Duration of Exam | 100 Minutes |
| Fees | Rs. 4,865 (India), $165 USD (United States) |
| Level of Difficulty | Intermediate |
| Type of Credential | Microsoft Certification |
| Languages | English, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), German, French, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Arabic (Saudi Arabia) |
| Exam Retake | Exam retake allowed after 24 hours |
| Quality Check during Assessment | The online exam is proctored |
The table below represents the weightage of each study area in the exam. Areas with higher percentages are expected to have more questions.
| Study Area | Percentage |
|---|---|
| Implement information protection | 30-35% |
| Implement data loss prevention and retention | 30-35% |
| Manage risks, alerts, and activities | 30-35% |
