Examine threat vectors and data breaches

This module examines the types of threat vectors and their potential outcomes that organizations must deal with on a daily basis and how users can enable hackers to access targets by unwittingly executing malicious content.

Administrator

Solution Architect

Technology Manager

Microsoft 365

Office 365

Module Objectives

By the end of this module, you should be able to:

Describe techniques hackers use to compromise user accounts through email
Describe techniques hackers use to gain control over resources
Describe techniques hackers use to compromise data
Mitigate an account breach
Prevent an elevation of privilege attack
Prevent data exfiltration, data deletion, and data spillage

Units

Introduction min
Explore today's work and threat landscape min
Examine how phishing retrieves sensitive information min
Examine how spoofing deceives users and compromises data security min
Compare spam and malware min
Examine account breaches min
Examine elevation of privilege attacks min
Examine how data exfiltration moves data out of your tenant min
Examine how attackers delete data from your tenant min
Examine how data spillage exposes data outside your tenant min
Examine other types of attacks min
Knowledge check min
Summary min

Prerequisites

None