Skip to Content
Exam Ref SC-200 Microsoft Security Operations Analyst, 2nd Edition
book

Exam Ref SC-200 Microsoft Security Operations Analyst, 2nd Edition

by Yuri Diogenes, Sarah Young
April 2026
Intermediate
323 pages
8h 34m
English
Microsoft Press
Content preview from Exam Ref SC-200 Microsoft Security Operations Analyst, 2nd Edition

Chapter 2

Configure protections and detections

One critical component of any Security Operations Center (SOC) is the quality of the alert that is received from a given data source. The quality of the alert can be measured by the relevance of the information contained in the alert, how that alert reflects the threat vectors of a cloud workload, and how these indications can help Security Operations Analysts investigate and respond to that alert. The products within the Defender security technologies provide tailored threat detection that can empower the SOC to have more accurate and relevant information to perform investigations. These alerts are also streamed to Microsoft Defender XDR and Microsoft Sentinel, which will enhance SOC Analysts’ ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Microsoft Security Operations Analyst Exam Ref SC-200 Guide - Second Edition

Microsoft Security Operations Analyst Exam Ref SC-200 Guide - Second Edition

Steve Miles, Junaid Mumtaz, Trevor Stuart, Joe Anich
Exam Ref SC-200 Microsoft Security Operations Analyst

Exam Ref SC-200 Microsoft Security Operations Analyst

Yuri Diogenes, Jake Mowrer, Sarah Young
Exam Ref SC-900 Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals, 2nd Edition

Exam Ref SC-900 Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals, 2nd Edition

Mark David Morowczynski, Nicholas Lee DiCola, Yuri Diogenes, Kevin McKinnerney

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780135590805