Detailed Course Outline
Module 1: Build an overall security strategy and architecture
Learn how to build an overall security strategy and architecture.
Lessons
- Introduction
- Zero Trust overview
- Develop Integration points in an architecture
- Develop security requirements based on business goals
- Translate security requirements into technical capabilities
- Design security for a resiliency strategy
- Design a security strategy for hybrid and multi-tenant environments
- Design technical and governance strategies for traffic filtering and segmentation
- Understand security for protocols
- Exercise: Build an overall security strategy and architecture
- Knowledge check
- Summary
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Develop Integration points in an architecture
- Develop security requirements based on business goals
- Translate security requirements into technical capabilities
- Design security for a resiliency strategy
- Design security strategy for hybrid and multi-tenant environments
- Design technical and governance strategies for traffic filtering and segmentation
Module 2: Design a security operations strategy
Learn how to design a security operations strategy.
Lessons
- Introduction
- Understand security operations frameworks, processes, and procedures
- Design a logging and auditing security strategy
- Develop security operations for hybrid and multi-cloud environments
- Design a strategy for Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and Security Orchestration,
- Evaluate security workflows
- Review security strategies for incident management
- Evaluate security operations strategy for sharing technical threat intelligence
- Monitor sources for insights on threats and mitigations
- After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Design a logging and auditing security strategy
- Develop security operations for hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
- Design a strategy for Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and Security Orchestration, A
- Evaluate security workflows.
- Review security strategies for incident management.
- Evaluate security operations for technical threat intelligence.
- Monitor sources for insights on threats and mitigations.
Module 3: Design an identity security strategy
Learn how to design an identity security strategy.
Lessons
- Introduction
- Secure access to cloud resources
- Recommend an identity store for security
- Recommend secure authentication and security authorization strategies
- Secure conditional access
- Design a strategy for role assignment and delegation
- Define Identity governance for access reviews and entitlement management
- Design a security strategy for privileged role access to infrastructure
- Design a security strategy for privileged activities
- Understand security for protocols
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Recommend an identity store for security.
- Recommend secure authentication and security authorization strategies.
- Secure conditional access.
- Design a strategy for role assignment and delegation.
- Define Identity governance for access reviews and entitlement management.
- Design a security strategy for privileged role access to infrastructure.
- Design a security strategy for privileged access.
Module 4: Evaluate a regulatory compliance strategy
Learn how to evaluate a regulatory compliance strategy.
Lessons
- Introduction
- Interpret compliance requirements and their technical capabilities
- Evaluate infrastructure compliance by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- Interpret compliance scores and recommend actions to resolve issues or improve security
- Design and validate implementation of Azure Policy
- Design for data residency Requirements
- Translate privacy requirements into requirements for security solutions
- After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Interpret compliance requirements and their technical capabilities
- Evaluate infrastructure compliance by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- Interpret compliance scores and recommend actions to resolve issues or improve security
- Design and validate implementation of Azure Policy
- Design for data residency requirements
- Translate privacy requirements into requirements for security solutions
Module 5: Evaluate security posture and recommend technical strategies to manage risk
Learn how to evaluate security posture and recommend technical strategies to manage risk.
Lessons
- Introduction
- Evaluate security postures by using benchmarks
- Evaluate security postures by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- Evaluate security postures by using Secure Scores
- Evaluate security hygiene of Cloud Workloads
- Design security for an Azure Landing Zone
- Interpret technical threat intelligence and recommend risk mitigations
- Recommend security capabilities or controls to mitigate identified risks
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Evaluate security postures by using benchmarks
- Evaluate security postures by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- Evaluate security postures by using Secure Scores
- Evaluate security hygiene of Cloud Workloads
- Design security for an Azure Landing Zone
- Interpret technical threat intelligence and recommend risk mitigations
- Recommend security capabilities or controls to mitigate identified risks
Module 6: Understand architecture best practices and how they are changing with the Cloud
Learn about architecture best practices and how they are changing with the Cloud.
Lessons
- Introduction
- Plan and implement a security strategy across teams
- Establish a strategy and process for proactive and continuous evolution of a security strategy
- Understand network protocols and best practices for network segmentation and traffic filtering
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Describe best practices for network segmentation and traffic filtering.
- Plan and implement a security strategy across teams.
- Establish a strategy and process for proactive and continuous evaluation of security strategy.
Module 7: Design a strategy for securing server and client endpoints
Learn how to design a strategy for securing server and client endpoints.
Lessons
- Introduction
- Specify security baselines for server and client endpoints
- Specify security requirements for servers
- Specify security requirements for mobile devices and clients
- Specify requirements for securing Active Directory Domain Services
- Design a strategy to manage secrets, keys, and certificates
- Design a strategy for secure remote access
- Understand security operations frameworks, processes, and procedures
- Understand deep forensics procedures by resource type
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Specify security baselines for server and client endpoints
- Specify security requirements for servers
- Specify security requirements for mobile devices and clients
- Specify requirements for securing Active Directory Domain Services
- Design a strategy to manage secrets, keys, and certificates
- Design a strategy for secure remote access
- Understand security operations frameworks, processes, and procedures
- Understand deep forensics procedures by resource type
Module 8: Design a strategy for securing PaaS, IaaS, and SaaS services
Learn how to design a strategy for securing PaaS, IaaS, and SaaS services.
Lessons
- Introduction
- Specify security baselines for PaaS services
- Specify security baselines for IaaS services
- Specify security baselines for SaaS services
- Specify security requirements for IoT workloads
- Specify security requirements for data workloads
- Specify security requirements for web workloads
- Specify security requirements for storage workloads
- Specify security requirements for containers
- Specify security requirements for container orchestration
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Specify security baselines for PaaS, SaaS and IaaS services
- Specify security requirements for IoT, data, storage, and web workloads
- Specify security requirements for containers and container orchestration
Module 9: Specify security requirements for applications
Learn how to specify security requirements for applications.
Lessons
- Introduction
- Understand application threat modeling
- Specify priorities for mitigating threats to applications
- Specify a security standard for onboarding a new application
- Specify a security strategy for applications and APIs
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Specify priorities for mitigating threats to applications
- Specify a security standard for onboarding a new application
- Specify a security strategy for applications and APIs
Module 10: Design a strategy for securing data
Learn how to design a strategy for securing data.
Lessons
- Introduction
- Prioritize mitigating threats to data
- Design a strategy to identify and protect sensitive data
- Specify an encryption standard for data at rest and in motion
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Prioritize mitigating threats to data
- Design a strategy to identify and protect sensitive data
- Specify an encryption standard for data at rest and in motion