SC-100: Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect

Job role: Solution Architect

Course Level: Advanced

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Duration: 4 Days

Format: Instructor-Led

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SC-100: Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect

Course

Course Description

This course prepares students with the background 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).

Audience profile

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.

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
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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

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