Course Outline
1 - Module 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
2 - Module 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
3 - Module 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
- Understand security for protocols
4 - Module 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
5 - Module 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 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
6 - Module 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
- Understand network protocols and best practices for network segmentation and traffic filtering
7 - Module 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 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
8 - Module 8: Design a strategy for securing PaaS, IaaS, and SaaS services
- 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
9 - Module 9: Specify security requirements for applications
- 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
10 - Module 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
Target Audience
IT professionals with advanced experience and knowledge in a wide range of security engineering areas, including identity and access, platform protection, security operations, securing data, and securing applications. They should also have experience with hybrid and cloud implementations.