SC-200 Microsoft Security Operations Analyst
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Course Code:
SC-200
Duration:
4 Days
Delivery Mode:
Instructor-led training (ILT)/Online Learning (OLL)
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Fees:
$3,052.00

Learn how to investigate, respond to, and hunt for threats using Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and Microsoft 365 Defender. In this course you will learn how to mitigate cyberthreats using these technologies. Specifically, you will configure and use Microsoft Sentinel as well as utilize Kusto Query Language (KQL) to perform detection, analysis, and reporting. The course was designed for people who work in a Security Operations job role and helps learners prepare for the exam SC-200: Microsoft
Security Operations Analyst.

Course Outline

Lesson 1: Mitigate threats using Microsoft Defender XDR Microsoft 365 threat protection

  • Introduction to Microsoft Defender XDR threat protection:
    • Explore Extended Detection & Response (XDR) response use cases
    • Understand Microsoft Defender XDR in a Security Operations Center (SOC)
    • Explore Microsoft Security Graph
    • Investigate security incidents in Microsoft Defender XDR
  • Mitigate incidents using Microsoft Defender
    • Use the Microsoft Defender portal
    • Manage incidents
    • Investigate incidents
    • Manage and investigate alerts
    • Manage automated investigations
    • Use the action center
    • Explore advanced hunting
    • Investigate Microsoft Entra sign-in logs
    • Understand Microsoft Secure Score
    • Analyze threat analytics
    • Analyze reports
    • Configure the Microsoft Defender portal
  • Remediate risks with Microsoft Defender for Office 365:
    • Introduction to Microsoft Defender for Office 365
    • Automate, investigate, and remediate
    • Configure, protect, and detect
    • Simulate attacks
  • Manage Microsoft Entra Identity Protection:
    • Review identity protection basics
    • Implement and manage user risk policy
    • Exercise enable sign-in risk policy
    • Exercise configure Microsoft Entra multifactor authentication registration policy
    • Monitor, investigate, and remediate elevated risky users
    • Implement security for workload identities
    • Explore Microsoft Defender for Identity
  • Safeguard your environment with Microsoft Defender for Identity:
    • Introduction to Microsoft Defender for Identity
    • Configure Microsoft Defender for Identity sensors
    • Review compromised accounts or data
    • Integrate with other Microsoft tools
    • Remediate risks with Microsoft Defender for Office 365
  • Secure your cloud apps and services with Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps:
    • Understand the Defender for Cloud Apps Framework
    • Explore your cloud apps with Cloud Discovery
    • Protect your data and apps with Conditional Access App Control
    • Walk through discovery and access control with Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
    • Classify and protect sensitive information
    • Detect Threats
Lesson 2: Mitigate threats using Microsoft Security Copilots using Microsoft 365 Defender

  • Fundamentals of Generative AI:
    • What is generative AI?
    • What are language models?
    • Using language models
    • Understand agents
    • Understand Microsoft Copilot
    • Considerations for prompts
    • Extending and developing copilot-like agents
    • Exercise – Explore Microsoft Copilot
  • Describe Microsoft Security Copilot:
    • Get acquainted with Microsoft Security Copilot
    • Describe Microsoft Security Copilot terminology
    • Describe how Microsoft Security Copilot processes prompt requests
    • Describe the elements of an effective prompt
    • Describe how to enable Microsoft Security Copilot
  • Describe the core features of Microsoft Security Copilot:
    • Describe the features available in the standalone experience of Microsoft Security Copilot
    • Describe the features available in a session of the standalone experience
    • Describe the Microsoft plugins available in Microsoft Security Copilot
    • Describe the non-Microsoft plugins supported by Microsoft Security Copilot
    • Describe custom promptbooks
    • Describe knowledge base connections
  • Describe the embedded experiences of Microsoft Security Copilot:
    • Describe Copilot in Microsoft Defender XDR
    • Copilot in Microsoft Purview
    • Copilot in Microsoft Entra
    • Copilot in Microsoft Intune
    • Copilot in Microsoft Defender for Cloud (Preview)
  • Explore use cases of Microsoft Security Copilot:
    • Explore the first run experience
    • Explore the standalone experience
    • Configure the Microsoft Sentinel plugin
    • Enable a custom plugin
    • Explore file uploads as a knowledge base
    • Create a custom promptbook
    • Explore the capabilities of Copilot in Microsoft Defender XDR
    • Explore the capabilities of Copilot in Microsoft Purview
Lesson 3: Mitigate threats using Microsoft Purview 

  • Respond to data loss prevention alerts using Microsoft 365:
    • Describe data loss prevention alerts
    • Investigate data loss prevention alerts in Microsoft Purview
    • Investigate data loss prevention alerts in Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
  • Manage insider risk in Microsoft Purview:
    • Insider risk management overview
    • Introduction to managing insider risk policies
    • Create and manage insider risk policies
    • Knowledge check
    • Investigate insider risk alerts
    • Take action on insider risk alerts through cases
    • Manage insider risk management forensic evidence
    • Create insider risk management notice templates
  • Search and investigate with Microsoft Purview Audit:
    • Microsoft Purview Audit overview
    • Configure and manage Microsoft Purview Audit
    • Conduct searches with Audit (Standard)
    • Audit Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 interactions
    • Investigate activities with Audit (Premium)
    • Export audit log data
    • Configure audit retention with Audit (Premium)
  • Investigate threats with Content search in Microsoft Purview:
    • Explore Microsoft Purview eDiscovery solutions
    • Create a content search
    • View the search results and statistics
    • Export the search results and search report
    • Configure search permissions filtering
    • Search for and delete email messages
Lesson 4: Mitigate threats using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

  • Protect against threats with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint:
    • Introduction to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
    • Practice security administration
    • Hunt threats within your network
  • Deploy the Microsoft Defender for Endpoint environment:
    • Create your environment
    • Understand operating systems compatibility and features
    • Onboard devices
    • Manage access
    • Create and manage roles for role-based access control
    • Configure device groups
    • Configure environment advanced features
  • Implement Windows security enhancements with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint:
    • Understand attack surface reduction
    • Enable attack surface reduction rules
  • Perform device investigations in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint:
    • Use the device inventory list
    • Investigate the device
    • Use behavioral blocking
    • Detect devices with device discovery
  • Perform actions on a device using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint:
    • Explain device actions
    • Run Microsoft Defender antivirus scan on devices
    • Collect investigation package from devices
    • Initiate live response session
  • Perform evidence and entities investigations using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint:
    • Investigate a file
    • Investigate a user account
    • Investigate an IP address
    • Investigate a domain
  • Configure and manage automation using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint:
    • Configure advanced features
    • Manage automation upload and folder settings
    • Configure automated investigation and remediation capabilities
    • Block at risk devices
  • Configure for alerts and detections in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint:
    • Configure advanced features
    • Configure alert notifications
    • Manage alert suppression
    • Manage indicators
  • Utilize Vulnerability Management in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint:
    • Understand vulnerability management
    • Explore vulnerabilities on your devices
    • Manage remediation
Lesson 5: Mitigate threats using Microsoft Defender for Cloud

  • Plan for cloud workload protections using Microsoft Defender for Cloud:
    • Explain Microsoft Defender for Cloud
    • Describe Microsoft Defender for Cloud workload protections
    • Exercise – Microsoft Defender for Cloud interactive guide
    • Enable Microsoft Defender for Cloud
  • Connect Azure assets to Microsoft Defender for Cloud:
    • Explore and manage your resources with asset inventory
    • Configure auto provisioning
    • Manual log analytics agent provisioning
  • Connect non-Azure resources to Microsoft Defender for Cloud:
    • Protect non-Azure resources
    • Connect non-Azure machines
    • Connect your AWS accounts
    • Connect your GCP accounts
  • Manage your cloud security posture management:
    • Explore Secure Score
    • Explore Recommendations
    • Measure and enforce regulatory compliance
    • Understand Workbooks
  • Explain cloud workload protections in Microsoft Defender for Cloud:
    • Understand Microsoft Defender for servers
    • Understand Microsoft Defender for App Service
    • Understand Microsoft Defender for Storage
    • Understand Microsoft Defender for SQL
    • Understand Microsoft Defender for open-source databases
    • Understand Microsoft Defender for Key Vault
    • Understand Microsoft Defender for Resource Manager
    • Understand Microsoft Defender for DNS
    • Understand Microsoft Defender for Containers
    • Understand Microsoft Defender additional protections
  • Remediate security alerts using Microsoft Defender for Cloud:
    • Understand security alerts
    • Remediate alerts and automate responses
    • Suppress alerts from Defender for Cloud
    • Generate threat intelligence reports
    • Respond to alerts from Azure resources
Lesson 6: Create queries for Microsoft Sentinel using Kusto Query Language (KQL)

  • Construct KQL statements for Microsoft Sentinel:
    • Understand the Kusto Query Language statement structure
    • Use the search operator
    • Use the where operator
    • Use the let statement
    • Use the extend operator
    • Use the order by operator
    • Use the project operators
  • Analyze query results using KQL:
    • Use the summarize operator
    • Use the summarize operator to filter results
    • Use the summarize operator to prepare data
    • Use the render operator to create visualizations
  • Build multi-table statements using KQL:
    • Use the union operator
    • Use the join operator
  • Work with data in Microsoft Sentinel using Kusto Query Language:
    • Extract data from unstructured string fields
    • Extract data from structured string data
    • Integrate external data
    • Create parsers with functions
Lesson 7: Configure your Microsoft Sentinel environment

  • Introduction to Microsoft Sentinel:
    • Introduction to the Unified Security Operations Platform
    • What is Microsoft Sentinel?
    • How Microsoft Sentinel works
    • When to use Microsoft Sentinel
  • Create and manage Microsoft Sentinel workspaces:
    • Plan for the Microsoft Sentinel workspace
    • Create a Microsoft Sentinel workspace
    • Manage workspaces across tenants using Azure Lighthouse
    • Understand Microsoft Sentinel permissions and roles
    • Manage Microsoft Sentinel settings
    • Configure logs
  • Query logs in Microsoft Sentinel:
    • Query logs in the logs page
    • Understand Microsoft Sentinel tables
    • Understand common tables
    • Understand Microsoft Defender XDR table
  • Use watchlists in Microsoft Sentinel:
    • Plan for watchlists
    • Create a watchlist
    • Manage watchlists
  • Utilize threat intelligence in Microsoft Sentinel:
    • Define threat intelligence
    • Manage your threat indicators
    • View your threat indicators with KQL
  • Integrate Microsoft Defender XDR with Microsoft Sentinel:
    • Understand the benefits of integrating Microsoft Sentinel with Defender XDR
    • Explore the capability differences between Microsoft Defender XDR and Microsoft Sentinel portals
    • Onboarding Microsoft Sentinel to Microsoft Defender XDR
    • Explore Microsoft Sentinel features in Microsoft Defender XDR
Lesson 8: Connect logs to Microsoft Sentinel

  • Connect data to Microsoft Sentinel using data connectors:
    • Ingest log data with data connectors
    • Understand data connector providers
    • View connected hosts
  • Connect Microsoft services to Microsoft Sentinel:
    • Plan for Microsoft services connectors
    • Connect the Microsoft Office 365 connector
    • Connect the Microsoft Entra connector
    • Connect the Microsoft Entra ID Protection connector
    • Connect the Azure Activity connector
  • Connect Microsoft Defender XDR to Microsoft Sentinel:
    • Plan for Microsoft Defender XDR connectors
    • Connect the Microsoft Defender XDR connector
    • Connect Microsoft Defender for Cloud connector
    • Connect Microsoft Defender for IoT
    • Connect Microsoft Defender legacy connectors
  • Connect Windows hosts to Microsoft Sentinel:
    • Plan for Windows hosts security events connector
    • Connect using the Windows Security Events via AMA Connector
    • Connect using the Security Events via Legacy Agent Connector
    • Collect Sysmon event logs
  • Connect Common Event Format logs to Microsoft Sentinel:
    • Plan for Common Event Format connector
    • Connect your external solution using the Common Event Format connector
  • Connect syslog data sources to Microsoft Sentinel:
    • Plan for syslog data collection
    • Collect data from Linux-based sources using syslog
    • Configure the Data Collection Rule for Syslog Data Sources
    • Parse syslog data with KQL
  • Connect threat indicators to Microsoft Sentinel
    • Plan for threat intelligence connectors
    • Connect the threat intelligence TAXII connector
    • Connect the threat intelligence platforms connector
    • View your threat indicators with KQL
Lesson 9: Create detections and perform investigations using Microsoft Sentinel

  • Threat detection with Microsoft Sentinel analytics:
    • Exercise – Detect threats with Microsoft Sentinel analytics
    • What is Microsoft Sentinel Analytics?
    • Types of analytics rules
    • Create an analytics rule from templates
    • Create an analytics rule from wizard
    • Manage analytics rules
    • Exercise – Detect threats with Microsoft Sentinel analytics
  • Automation in Microsoft Sentinel:
    • Understand automation options
    • Create automation rules
  • Threat response with Microsoft Sentinel playbooks:
    • Exercise – Create a Microsoft Sentinel playbook
    • What are Microsoft Sentinel playbooks?
    • Trigger a playbook in real-time
    • Run playbooks on demand
    • Exercise – Create a Microsoft Sentinel playbook
  • Security incident management in Microsoft Sentinel:
    • Exercise – Set up the Azure environment
    • Understand incidents
    • Incident evidence and entities
    • Incident management
    • Exercise – Investigate an incident
  • Identify threats with Behavioral Analytics:
    • Understand behavioral analytics
    • Explore entities
    • Display entity behavior information
    • Use Anomaly detection analytical rule templates
  • Data normalization in Microsoft Sentinel:
    • Understand data normalization
    • Use ASIM Parsers
    • Understand parameterized KQL functions
    • Create an ASIM Parser
    • Configure Azure Monitor Data Collection Rules
  • Query, visualize, and monitor data in Microsoft Sentinel:
    • Exercise – Query and visualize data with Microsoft Sentinel Workbooks
    • Monitor and visualize data
    • Query data using Kusto Query Language
    • Use default Microsoft Sentinel Workbooks
    • Create a new Microsoft Sentinel Workbook
    • Exercise – Visualize data using Microsoft Sentinel Workbooks
  • Manage content in Microsoft Sentinel:
    • Use solutions from the content hub
    • Use repositories for deployment
Lesson 10: Perform threat hunting in Microsoft Sentinel

  • Explain threat hunting concepts in Microsoft Sentinel:
    • Understand cybersecurity threat hunts
    • Develop a hypothesis
    • Explore MITRE ATT&CK
  • Threat hunting with Microsoft Sentinel:
    • Exercise setup
    • Explore creation and management of threat-hunting queries
    • Save key findings with bookmarks
    • Observe threats over time with livestream
    • Exercise – Hunt for threats by using Microsoft Sentinel
  • Use Search jobs in Microsoft Sentinel:
    • Hunt with a Search Job
    • Restore historical data
  • Hunt for threats using notebooks in Microsoft Sentinel:
    • Access Azure Sentinel data with external tools
    • Hunt with notebooks
    • Create a notebook
    • Explore notebook code

Course Fee (inclusive of 9% GST)

$3,052.00 *Funding not available
Course Prerequisite
  • Basic understanding of Microsoft 365
  • Fundamental understanding of Microsoft security, compliance, and identity products
  • Intermediate understanding of Microsoft Windows
  • Familiarity with Azure services, specifically Azure SQL Database and Azure Storage
  • Familiarity with Azure virtual machines and virtual networking Basic understanding of scripting concepts
Important Notes
None.
Who Should Attend?
The Microsoft Security Operations Analyst collaborates with organizational stakeholders to secure information technology systems for the organization. Their goal is to reduce organizational risk by rapidly remediating active attacks in the environment, advising on improvements to threat protection practices, and referring violations of organizational policies to appropriate stakeholders. Responsibilities include threat management, monitoring, and response by using a variety of security solutions across their environment. The role primarily investigates, responds to, and hunts for threats using Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender XDR, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and third-party security products. Since the Security Operations Analyst consumes the operational output of these tools, they are also a critical stakeholder in the configuration and deployment of these technologies.

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