Exam Ref MS-900 Microsoft 365 Fundamentals

Chapter 3. Understand security, compliance, privacy, and trust in Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365 was originally conceived as a product that would present users with familiar tools—such as the Office productivity applications—and enable them to collaborate in new ways, more easily, more efficiently, and using any device at any location. This is a wonderful aspiration, but the product’s designers soon realized that this idea of universal collaboration raised security, compliance, privacy, and trust issues that had to be addressed before the ideal could be realized.

Typically, these issues are the main impediment to the full adoption of Microsoft 365 for many IT professionals. The idea of storing sensitive data in the cloud and allowing workers to ...