This is an advanced, expert-level course. Although not required to attend, students are
strongly encouraged to have taken and passed another associate level certification in
the security, compliance and identity portfolio (such as AZ-500, SC-200 or SC-300)
before attending this class.
This course prepares students with the expertise to design and evaluate cybersecurity
strategies in the following areas: Zero Trust, Governance Risk Compliance (GRC),
security operations (SecOps), and data and applications.
Students will also learn how to design and architect solutions using zero trust principles
and specify security requirements for cloud infrastructure in different service models
(SaaS, PaaS, IaaS).
Course dates and course fee may be subjected to changes.
Course Outline
Lesson 1: Build an overall security strategy and architecture
- 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
Lesson 2: Design a security operations strategy
- 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
Lesson 3: Design an identity security strategy
- 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
- Exercise: Design an identity security strategy
Lesson 4: Evaluate a regulatory compliance strategy
- 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
- Exercise: Evaluate a regulatory compliance strategy
Lesson 5: Evaluate security posture and recommend technical strategies to manage risk
- Evaluate security postures by using benchmarks
- Evaluate security postures by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- Evaluate security hygiene of Cloud Workloads
- Design security for an Azure Landing Zone
- Interpret technical threat intelligence and recommend risk mitigations
- Evaluate security postures by using secure scores
- Recommend security capabilities or controls to mitigate identified risks
- Exercise: Evaluate security posture and recommend technical strategies to manage risk
Lesson 6: Understand architecture best practices and how they are changing with the Cloud
- Plan and implement a security strategy across teams
- Establish a strategy and process for proactive and continuous evolution of a security strategy
- Exercise: Understand network protocols and best practices for network segmentation and traffic
- filtering
Lesson 7: Design a strategy for securing server and client endpoints
- 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 mange secrets, keys, and certificates
- Design a strategy for secure remote access
- Plan for endpoint forensics
- Exercise: Design a strategy for securing server and client endpoints
Lesson 8: Design a strategy for securing PaaS, IaaS, and SaaS services
- Specify security baselines for PaaS services
- Specify security baselines for IaaS
- Specify security baselines SaaS
- 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 orchestration
- Exercise: Design a strategy for securing PaaS, IaaS, and SaaS services
Lesson 9: Specify security requirements for applications
- Understand application threat modelling
- Specify priorities for mitigating threats to applications
- Specify a security standard for onboarding a new application
- Specify a security strategy for applications and APIs
- Exercise: Specify security requirements for applications
Lesson 10: Design a strategy for securing data
- 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
- Exercise: Design a strategy for securing data
Lesson 11: Recommend security best practices using Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architecture (MCRA) and Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmarks
- Recommend best practices for cybersecurity capabilities and controls
- Recommend best practices for protecting from insider and external attacks
- Recommend best practices for Zero Trust security
- Recommend best practices best practices for Zero Trust Rapid Modernization Plan
Lesson 12: Recommend a secure methodology using the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)
- Recommend a DevSecOps process
- Recommend a methodology for asset protection
- Recommend strategies for managing and minimizing risk
Lesson 13: Recommend a ransomware strategy by using Microsoft Security Best Practices
- Plan for ransomware protection and extortion-based attacks
- Protect assets from ransomware attacks
- Recommend Microsoft ransomware best practices
