Smart Cybersecurity with Microsoft: Top Solutions

This course aims to teach the fundamental concepts of cloud security and best practices for implementing it in Azure. You will learn how to protect your data, infrastructure, network, and applications in Azure, using the tools and services offered by the platform. Plus, you'll be able to test your level of knowledge with hands-on activities and quizzes.

• Know the search activities and main threats on the network
• Analyze the benefits of Microsoft Defender and how to counter threats
• Get familiar with Azure Sentinel
• Incorporate the main security elements in Azure
• Know the main threats and the actions to take

This course is aimed at IT professionals who want to learn about cloud security and how to apply it in Azure.

Unit 1 : Search and control of threats on the network

• Threat and vulnerability management
• Identify security threats with Azure Security Center
• Get started with Azure Sentinel

Unit 2: Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection

• Configuring security policies to manage data
• Creating security baselines

Unit 3: Azure Sentinel as a Native SIEM

• Deploy Azure Sentinel and connect data sources
• Obtaining security conclusions
• Quick threat detection
• Response automation
• Main security elements to take into account
• Practice: Configuring and Deploying Azure Sentinel

Unit 4: Types of threats and disasters

• Backup and disaster recovery
• Azure SQL Database Backup and Restore
• Resolve security threats with Azure Security Center

Unit 5: How to incorporate security into Azure

• The Azure Security Architecture Model
• Identity management
• Infrastructure Protection
• Encryption, use of network security groups, and service endpoints
• Network and application security

It is recommended that you have prior knowledge of core Azure services such as storage, virtual machines, networking, and web applications. It is also recommended that you be familiar with general security concepts such as authentication, authorization, encryption, and firewall.