AZ-500: Microsoft Azure Security Technologies
This course provides IT Security Professionals with the knowledge and skills needed to implement security controls, maintain an organization’s security posture, and identify and remediate security vulnerabilities. This course includes security for identity and access, platform protection, data and applications, and security operations.
Description
Overview
In this course students will gain the knowledge and skills needed to implement security controls, maintain the security posture, and identify and remediate vulnerabilities by using a variety of security tools. The course covers scripting and automation, virtualization, and cloud N-tier architecture.
Course Objectives
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Implement enterprise governance strategies including role-based access control, Azure policies, and resource locks.
- Implement an Azure AD infrastructure including users, groups, and multi-factor authentication.
- Implement Azure AD Identity Protection including risk policies, conditional access, and access reviews.
- Implement Azure AD Privileged Identity Management including Azure AD roles and Azure resources.
- Implement Azure AD Connect including authentication methods and on-premises directory synchronization.
- Implement perimeter security strategies including Azure Firewall.
- Implement network security strategies including Network Security Groups and Application Security Groups.
- Implement host security strategies including endpoint protection, remote access management, update management, and disk encryption.
- Implement container security strategies including Azure Container Instances, Azure Container Registry, and Azure Kubernetes.
- Implement Azure Key Vault including certificates, keys, and secretes.
- Implement application security strategies including app registration, managed identities, and service endpoints.
- Implement storage security strategies including shared access signatures, blob retention policies, and Azure Files authentication.
- Implement database security strategies including authentication, data classification, dynamic data masking, and always encrypted.
- Implement Azure Monitor including connected sources, log analytics, and alerts.
- Implement Azure Security Center including policies, recommendations, and just in time virtual machine access.
- Implement Azure Sentinel including workbooks, incidents, and playbooks.
Who Should Attend
This course is for Azure Security Engineers who are planning to take the associated certification exam, or who are performing security tasks in their day-to-day job. This course would also be helpful to an engineer that wants to specialize in providing security for Azure-based digital platforms and play an integral role in protecting an organization's data.
Course Outline
Module 1: Identity and Access Identity and Access
Master identity and access management in Microsoft Entra ID, securing users, groups, and external identities, implementing authentication and authorization controls, and managing application access and security.
- Manage identities in Microsoft Entra ID
- Manage authentication by using Microsoft Entra ID
- Manage authorization by using Microsoft Entra ID
- Manage application access in Microsoft Entra ID
Lab:
- Role-Based Access Control
Module 2: Secure Networking
Master the intricacies of securing Azure networks, encompassing virtual networks, encryption, firewall setup, private access, and DDoS protection, with this comprehensive training.
- Plan and implement security for virtual networks
- Plan and implement security for private access to Azure resources
- Plan and implement security for public access to Azure resources
Labs:
- Network Security Groups and Application Security Groups
- Azure Firewall
Module 3: Secure Compute, Storage, and Databases
Master the art of managing security operations in Azure, from governance and policy creation to infrastructure security, key management, security posture, threat protection, and advanced security monitoring and automation.
- Plan and implement advanced security for compute
- Plan and implement security for storage
- Plan and implement security for Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance
Labs:
- Configuring and securing ACR and AKS
- Securing Azure SQL Database
- Service Endpoints and Securing Storage
Module 4: Security Operations
Master the art of managing security operations in Azure, from governance and policy creation to infrastructure security, key management, security posture, threat protection, and advanced security monitoring and automation.
- Plan, implement, and manage governance for security
- Manage security posture by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- Configure and manage threat protection by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- Cloud Configure and manage security monitoring and automation solutions
Labs:
- Key Vault
- Azure Monitor
- Azure Security Center
- Azure Sentinel
Prerequisites
Successful learners will have prior knowledge and understanding of:
- Security best practices and industry security requirements such as defense in depth, least privileged access, role-based access control, multi-factor authentication, shared responsibility, and zero trust model.
- Be familiar with security protocols such as Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Internet Security Protocol (IPSec), Secure Socket Layer (SSL), disk and data encryption methods.
- Have some experience deploying Azure workloads. This course does not cover the basics of Azure administration, instead the course content builds on that knowledge by adding security specific information.
- Have experience with Windows and Linux operating systems and scripting languages.
Course labs may use PowerShell and the CLI.