Microsoft 365 Security, Compliance, and Identity Administration

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Configuring a Microsoft Defender for Identity Solution

As you learned in Chapter 1, Planning for Hybrid Identity, the default identity method in Microsoft 365 is cloud-only. However, very few organizations are in the fortunate position to leverage cloud-only identities. Start-up businesses and organizations with minimal infrastructure find adopting this method easier than those with more complex infrastructure and a long-term reliance on on-premises Active Directory and legacy applications. The latter will likely leverage some form of hybrid identity strategy.

Organizations with this challenge need to consider how to extend the cloud-based protection features included in Microsoft 365 to their on-premises Active Directory domain controllers. ...