Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect

Who is the training for?

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.

Duration

4,00 day(s)

Language(s) of service

Next session

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Prerequisites

Before attending this course, students must have:

Advanced experience and knowledge in identity and access, platform protection, security operations, securing data and securing applications.
Experience with hybrid and cloud implementations.

Goals

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Design a Zero Trust strategy and architecture
Evaluate Governance Risk Compliance (GRC) technical strategies and security operations strategies
Design security for infrastructure
Design a strategy for data and applications

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).

Points covered

Module 1: Build an overall security strategy and architecture

Learn how to build an overall security strategy and architecture.

Lesson

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.

Lesson

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.

Lesson

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.

Lesson

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.

Lesson

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.

Lesson

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.