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This course provides participants with the knowledge necessary to design and evaluate cybersecurity strategies in the following areas: Zero Trust, Governance Risk Compliance (GRC), Security Operations (SecOps), and Data and Applications. Participants will also learn how to design solutions with Zero Trust principles and specify security requirements for cloud infrastructure in different service models (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS).
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Course Contents
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- Introduction to Zero Trust and best practice frameworks
- Design solutions aligned with the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and the Well-Architected Framework (WAF)
- Design solutions aligned with the Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architecture (MCRA) and the Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark (MCSB)
- Design a resilience strategy for common cyber threats such as ransomware
- Case study: Design solutions aligned with security best practices and priorities
- Designing solutions for regulatory compliance
- Creating solutions for identity and access management
- Designing solutions to protect privileged access
- Designing solutions for security operations
- Case study: Designing functions for security operations, identity and compliance
- Designing solutions to protect Microsoft 365
- Designing solutions to protect applications
- Designing solutions to protect an organization's data
- Case study: Designing security solutions for applications and data
- Designing a strategy to protect SaaS, PaaS and IaaS services
- Designing solutions for managing security posture in hybrid and multicloud environments
- Design solutions to protect server and client endpoints
- Designing solutions for network security
- Case study: Designing security solutions for infrastructure
The original Microsoft courseware is made available to you online.
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Target Group
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This course is aimed at experienced cloud security engineers who have already achieved certification in the Security, Compliance and Identity portfolio. Learners should have extensive experience and in-depth knowledge of many security technology areas, such as identity and access, platform protection, security functions, and data and application protection. They should also have experience with hybrid and cloud implementations.
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Knowledge Prerequisites
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This is an advanced course at expert level. Learners are strongly encouraged to earn another certification in the Security, Compliance and Identity portfolio at the Associate level (e.g. AZ-500, SC-200 or SC-300) prior to taking this course - however, this is not a prerequisite.
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Course Objective
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The exam is part of the requirements for certification as a Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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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Classroom training
- Do you prefer the classic training method? A course in one of our Training Centers, with a competent trainer and the direct exchange between all course participants? Then you should book one of our classroom training dates!
-
Hybrid training
- Hybrid training means that online participants can additionally attend a classroom course. The dynamics of a real seminar are maintained, and the online participants are able to benefit from that. Online participants of a hybrid course use a collaboration platform, such as WebEx Training Center or Saba Meeting. To do this, a PC with browser and Internet access is required, as well as a headset and ideally a Web cam. In the seminar room, we use specially developed and customized audio- and video-technologies. This makes sure that the communication between all persons involved works in a convenient and fault-free way.
-
Online training
- You wish to attend a course in online mode? We offer you online course dates for this course topic. To attend these seminars, you need to have a PC with Internet access (minimum data rate 1Mbps), a headset when working via VoIP and optionally a camera. For further information and technical recommendations, please refer to.
-
Tailor-made courses
-
You need a special course for your team? In addition to our standard offer, we will also support you in creating your customized courses, which precisely meet your individual demands. We will be glad to consult you and create an individual offer for you.
You can find the complete description of this course with dates and prices ready for download at as PDF.-
This course provides participants with the knowledge necessary to design and evaluate cybersecurity strategies in the following areas: Zero Trust, Governance Risk Compliance (GRC), Security Operations (SecOps), and Data and Applications. Participants will also learn how to design solutions with Zero Trust principles and specify security requirements for cloud infrastructure in different service models (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS).
-
Course Contents
-
- Introduction to Zero Trust and best practice frameworks
- Design solutions aligned with the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and the Well-Architected Framework (WAF)
- Design solutions aligned with the Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architecture (MCRA) and the Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark (MCSB)
- Design a resilience strategy for common cyber threats such as ransomware
- Case study: Design solutions aligned with security best practices and priorities
- Designing solutions for regulatory compliance
- Creating solutions for identity and access management
- Designing solutions to protect privileged access
- Designing solutions for security operations
- Case study: Designing functions for security operations, identity and compliance
- Designing solutions to protect Microsoft 365
- Designing solutions to protect applications
- Designing solutions to protect an organization's data
- Case study: Designing security solutions for applications and data
- Designing a strategy to protect SaaS, PaaS and IaaS services
- Designing solutions for managing security posture in hybrid and multicloud environments
- Design solutions to protect server and client endpoints
- Designing solutions for network security
- Case study: Designing security solutions for infrastructure
The original Microsoft courseware is made available to you online.
-
Target Group
-
This course is aimed at experienced cloud security engineers who have already achieved certification in the Security, Compliance and Identity portfolio. Learners should have extensive experience and in-depth knowledge of many security technology areas, such as identity and access, platform protection, security functions, and data and application protection. They should also have experience with hybrid and cloud implementations.
-
Knowledge Prerequisites
-
This is an advanced course at expert level. Learners are strongly encouraged to earn another certification in the Security, Compliance and Identity portfolio at the Associate level (e.g. AZ-500, SC-200 or SC-300) prior to taking this course - however, this is not a prerequisite.
-
Course Objective
-
The exam is part of the requirements for certification as a Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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 |
-
Classroom training
- Do you prefer the classic training method? A course in one of our Training Centers, with a competent trainer and the direct exchange between all course participants? Then you should book one of our classroom training dates!
-
Hybrid training
- Hybrid training means that online participants can additionally attend a classroom course. The dynamics of a real seminar are maintained, and the online participants are able to benefit from that. Online participants of a hybrid course use a collaboration platform, such as WebEx Training Center or Saba Meeting. To do this, a PC with browser and Internet access is required, as well as a headset and ideally a Web cam. In the seminar room, we use specially developed and customized audio- and video-technologies. This makes sure that the communication between all persons involved works in a convenient and fault-free way.
-
Online training
- You wish to attend a course in online mode? We offer you online course dates for this course topic. To attend these seminars, you need to have a PC with Internet access (minimum data rate 1Mbps), a headset when working via VoIP and optionally a camera. For further information and technical recommendations, please refer to.
-
Tailor-made courses
-
You need a special course for your team? In addition to our standard offer, we will also support you in creating your customized courses, which precisely meet your individual demands. We will be glad to consult you and create an individual offer for you.
You can find the complete description of this course with dates and prices ready for download at as PDF.
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