Training Category: Microsoft

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Course Duration: 4 Days

Course Overview

How do you stay ahead of threats in a constantly evolving Azure security landscape? As cloud adoption grows, so does the need for professionals who can secure Microsoft Azure environments against increasingly complex threats. This course equips you to implement advanced security controls, manage identity and access, protect data and applications, and monitor security operations across hybrid and cloud-native infrastructure. This training also prepares you for the AZ-500: Microsoft Azure Security Technologies certification.

Audience Profile

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.

At Course Completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

  • Implement secure identity and access management solutions
  • Configure platform protection for Azure compute and network
  • Manage security operations using Microsoft Defender and Sentinel
  • Secure data at rest and in transit across Azure workloads
  • Monitor and remediate vulnerabilities to maintain security posture

Prerequisites

Previous experience with cloud and on-prem core services (Network, Compute, Storage, etc.)

MS-AZ-900 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

MS-AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator

Course Outline

Identity and Access

  • Configure Azure Active Directory and Privileged Identity Management
  • Implement Azure RBAC and authentication mechanisms

Platform Protection

  • Secure network and host environments
  • Configure Azure Firewall, Application Gateway, Front Door, DDoS protection

Security Operations

  • Configure Azure Security Center / Microsoft Defender
  • Manage security policies, alerts, and baselines

Data and Applications

  • Secure data storage and encryption
  • Use Azure Key Vault; apply application security best practices

Certification Exam

  • Final review and exam administration
  • Apply for the Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate credential

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