Detailed Class Syllabus

Module 1: Build an overall security strategy and architecture

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

Module 2: Design a security operations strategy

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

Module 3: Design an identity security strategy

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

Module 4: Evaluate a regulatory compliance strategy

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

Module 5: Evaluate security posture and recommend technical strategies to manage risk

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

Module 6: Understand architecture best practices and how they are changing with the Cloud

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

Module 7: Design a strategy for securing server and client endpoints

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

Module 8: Design a strategy for securing PaaS, IaaS, and SaaS services

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

Module 9: Specify security requirements for applications

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

Module 10: Design a strategy for securing data

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