CertPREP Courseware: Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect (SC-100) — Self-Paced, 180-Day access

Lesson 1: Build an overall security strategy and architecture (2 hours and 48 minutes).

• Skill 1.1: Identify the integration points in an architecture by using Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architectures (MCRA) (36 minutes).
  • MCRA and Cloud Adoption Framework Secure Methodology.
  • How to use the MCRA to identify integration points.
• Skill 1.2: Translate business goals into security requirements (24 minutes)
  • Translation process.
• Skill 1.3: Translate security requirements into technical capabilities, including security services, security products and security processes (1 hour).
  • Requirement: Mitigate compromise of accounts using password spray and other credential compromise.
  • Requirement: Shorten response times to attacks across resources in the environment.
  • Requirement: Integrate network security into Infrastructure as a Code (IaC) automation.
  • Requirement: Enable eDiscovery processes for Office 365 data.
• Skill 1.4: Design security for a resiliency strategy (24 minutes).
  • Reducing risk by reducing critical security events.
  • Resilience requires shifting from a network-centric to an asset- and data-centric mindset.
• Skill 1.5: Integrate a hybrid or multi-tenant environment into a security strategy (12 minutes).
• Skill 1.6: Develop a technical governance strategy for security (12 minutes).
• Summary
• Case Study
• Quiz

Lesson 2: Design a security operations strategy (5 hours and 24 minutes)

• Skill 2.1: Design a logging and auditing strategy to support security operations (1 hour).
  • Centralizing log collection.
  • Deciding which logs have security value.
  • Designing security operations use cases.
  • Determining log retention periods.
• Skill 2.2: Develop security operations to support a hybrid or multi-cloud environment (1 hour).
  • Cross-platform log collection.
  • Cloud security posture management (CSPM).
  • Focus on identity.
  • Internet of Things (IoT)/Operational Technology (OT) coverage.
• Skill 2.3: Design a strategy for SIEM and SOAR (48 minutes).
  • Microsoft Security Operations Reference Architecture.
  • Ingest logs into your SIEM.
  • Automate, automate, automate.
• Skill 2.4: Evaluate security workflows (36 minutes).
  • General incident response workflow.
  • Automation, automation, automation (again).
• Skill 2.5: Evaluate a security operations strategy for the incident management lifecycle (1 hour and 24 minutes).
  • Microsoft’s approach to security incident management.
  • Detection and analysis.
  • Post-incident activity.
• Skill 2.6: Evaluate a security operations strategy for sharing technical threat intelligence (36 minutes).
  • Microsoft’s threat intelligence strategy.
  • Sharing technical threat intelligence in your organization.
• Summary
• Case Study
• Quiz

Lesson 3: Design an identity security strategy (6 hours and 36 minutes).

• Skill 3.1: Design a strategy for access to cloud resources (1 hour and 24 minutes).
  • Identity-related access controls.
  • Network-related access controls.
  • Coordinated identity and network access.
  • Interconnection and cross-service collaboration.
  • Assume-breach and explicitly verify.
  • People, process, and technology approach.
• Skill 3.2: Recommend an identity store (tenants, B2B, B2C, and hybrid) (36 minutes).
  • Foundational implementations.
  • External collaboration.
• Skill 3.3: Recommend an authentication strategy (1 hour).
  • Enterprise accounts.
  • Specialized accounts.
  • Controlling authentication sessions.
  • Key recommendations.
• Skill 3.4: Recommend an authorization strategy (48 minutes).
  • Configuring access to support authorization.
  • Decentralized identities.
  • Key recommendations.
• Skill 3.5: Design a strategy for conditional access (24 minutes).
  • Key recommendations.
• Skill 3.6: Design a strategy for role assignment and delegation (36 minutes).
  • Delegating to non-administrators.
  • Delegating access to service providers.
• Skill 3.7: Design security strategy for privileged-role access to infrastructure, including identity-based firewall rules and Azure PIM (1 hour).
  • Privileged Access Workstation (PAW).
  • Privileged Identity Management (PIM).
  • Microsoft Entra Permissions Management.
  • Key recommendations.
• Skill 3.8: Design security strategy for privileged activities, including PAM, entitlement management, and cloud tenant administration (48 minutes).
  • Privileged Access Workstation (PAM).
  • Privileged Identity Management (PIM).
  • Microsoft Entra Permission Management.
• Summary
• Case Study
• Quiz

Lesson 4: Design a regulatory compliance strategy (1 hour and 48 minutes).

• Skill 4.1: Interpret compliance requirements and translate specific technical capabilities (new or existing) (36 minutes).
  • Security compliance translation process.
  • Resolving conflicts between compliance and security.
• Skill 4.2: Evaluate infrastructure compliance by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud (12 minutes).
• Skill 4.3: Interpret compliance scores and recommend actions to resolve issues or improve security (12 minutes).
• Skill 4.4: Design implementation of Azure Policy (12 minutes).
• Skill 4.5: Design for data residency requirements (12 minutes).
• Skill 4.6: Translate privacy requirements into requirements for security solutions (24 minutes).
  • Security and privacy.
• Summary
• Case Study
• Quiz

Lesson 5: Evaluate security posture and recommend technical strategies to manage risk (4 hours and 48 minutes).

• Skill 5.1: Evaluate security posture by using benchmarks (including Azure Security benchmarks for Microsoft Cloud security benchmark, ISO 27001, etc.) (48 minutes).
  • Microsoft Cloud security benchmark.
  • Monitoring your MCSB compliance.
  • Industry standards.
• Skill 5.2: Evaluate security posture by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud (1 hour).
  • Defender for Cloud.
  • Security posture management.
  • Considerations for multi-cloud.
  • Considerations for vulnerability assessment.
• Skill 5.3: Evaluate security posture by using Secure Scores (24 minutes).
• Secure Score in Defender for Cloud.
• Skill 5.4: Evaluate security posture of cloud workloads (24 minutes).
• Workload security.
• Skill 5.5: Design security for an Azure Landing Zone (1 hour and 12 minutes).
  • Design principles.
  • Enforcing guardrails.
  • Single management plane.
  • Application–centric.
  • Security considerations.
• Skill 5.6: Interpret technical threat intelligence and recommend risk mitigations (36 minutes).
  • Threat intelligence in Defender for Cloud.
  • Threat intelligence in Microsoft Sentinel.
• Skill 5.7: Recommend security capabilities or controls to mitigate identified risks (24 minutes).
  • Identifying and mitigating risks.
• Summary
• Case Study
• Quiz

Lesson 6: Design a strategy for securing server and client endpoints (9 hours and 36 minutes).

• Skill 6.1: Specify security baselines for server and client endpoints (2 hours and 48 minutes).
  • Group Policy Objects (GPO).
  • Security Compliance Toolkit (SCT).
  • Azure Security Benchmark (ASB).
  • Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM).
  • PowerShell DSC.
  • Azure Automation.
  • Azure Policy.
  • Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates.
  • Microsoft Defender for Cloud (MDC).
  • Microsoft Defender for IoT (MDIoT).
  • Baseline configuration.
  • Key Recommendations.
• Skill 6.2: Specify security requirements for servers, including multiple platforms and operating systems (1 hour and 36 minutes).
  • Shared responsibility in the cloud.
  • Legacy insecure protocols.
  • Threat protection.
  • Local Administrator Password Management (LAPS).
  • User rights assignments.
  • Network-based controls.
• Skill 6.3: Specify security requirements for mobile devices and clients, including endpoint protection, hardening, and configurations (1 hour and 48 minutes).
  • Local Administrator Password Management.
  • Basic Mobility and Security.
  • Threat protection.
  • Conditional access.
  • Microsoft Intune.
  • User rights assignments.
  • Micro-segmentation.
  • Other security controls.
• Skill 6.4: Specify requirements to secure Active Directory Domain Services (1hour and 12 minutes).
  • Secure the control plane.
  • Privileged Access Management.
  • Key recommendations.
  • Microsoft Defender for Identity.
  • Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS).
• Skill 6.5: Design a strategy to manage secrets, keys, and certificates (1 hour).
  • Access control.
  • Configuration control.
  • Key management.
  • Key recommendations.
• Skill 6.6: Design a strategy for secure remote access (1hour and 36 minutes).
  • Key configurations to enable secure remote access.
  • Remote access to desktop, applications, and data.
  • Remote access to on-premises web applications.
  • RDP/SSH connectivity.
  • Remotely provisioning new devices.
  • B2B collaboration.
  • Key recommendations.
• Summary
• Case Study
• Quiz

Lesson 7: Design a strategy for securing SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS services (4 hours).

• Skill 7.1: Specify security baselines for SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS services (24 minutes).
  • Specify security baselines for SaaS services.
• Skill 7.2: Specify security requirements for IoT workloads (36 minutes).
  • Security requirements.
  • Security posture and threat detection.
• Skill 7.3: Specify security requirements for data workloads, including SQL, Azure SQL Database, Azure Synapse, and Azure Cosmos DB (24 minutes).
  • Security considerations for Azure Cosmos DB.
• Skill 7.4: Specify security requirements for web workloads, including Azure App Service (48 minutes).
  • Network communication.
  • Authentication and authorization.
  • Security posture and threat protection.
• Skill 7.5: Specify security requirements for storage workloads, including Azure Storage (1 hour).
  • Data protection.
  • Identity and access management.
  • Logging and monitoring.
• Skill 7.6: Specify security requirements for containers (24 minutes).
  • Hardening access to Azure Container Registry.
• Skill 7.7: Specify security requirements for container orchestration (24 minutes).
  • Threat detection.
• Summary
• Case Study
• Quiz

Lesson 8: Specify security requirements for applications (2 hours).

• Skill 8.1: Specify priorities for mitigating threats to applications (48 minutes).
  • Classifying applications.
  • Application threat modeling.
  • Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL).
• Skill 8.2: Specify a security standard for onboarding a new application (36 minutes).
  • Old versus new.
  • Security standards for onboarding applications.
• Skill 8.3: Specify a security strategy for applications and APIs (36 minutes).
  • Waterfall to Agile/DevOps.
  • Security in DevOps (DevSecOps).
• Summary
• Case Study
• Quiz

Lesson 9: Design a strategy for securing data (2 hours and 12 minutes)

• Skill 9.1: Specify priorities for mitigating threats to data (36 minutes)
  • Common threats.
• Skill 9.2: Design a strategy to identify and protect sensitive data (1 hour)
  • Know your data.
  • Protect your data.
  • Prevent data loss.
  • Govern your data.
• Skill 9.3: Specify an encryption standard for data at rest and in motion (36 minutes) Encrypt at rest.
  • Encryption in motion.
• Summary
• Case Study
• Quiz

Lesson 10: Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architectures and Microsoft cloud security benchmark best practices (48 minutes).

• Skill 10.1: Recommend best practices for cybersecurity capabilities and controls (12 minutes).
• Skill 10.2: Recommend best practices for protecting from insider and external attacks (12 minutes).
• Skill 10.3: Recommend best practices for Zero Trust security (12 minutes)
• Skill 10.4: Recommend best practices for the Zero Trust Rapid Modernization Plan (12 minutes).
• Summary
• Case Study
• Quiz

Lesson 11: Recommend a secure methodology by using the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) (2 hours and 36 minutes)

• Skill 11.1: Recommend a DevSecOps process (1 hour and 12 minutes)
  • DevSecOps Control.
  • Plan and develop.
  • Commit the code.
  • Build and test.
  • Go to production and operate.
• Skill 11.2: Recommend a methodology for asset protection (48 minutes)
  • Getting secure.
  • Staying secure.

Key recommendations for an asse protection program

• Skill 11.3: Recommend strategies for managing and minimizing risk (36 minutes)
  • Measuring risk.
  • Managing security risk.
• Summary
• Case Study
• Quiz

Lesson 12: Recommend a ransomware strategy by using Microsoft Security Best Practices (1 hour and 48 minutes)

• Skill 12.1: Plan for ransomware protection and extortion-based attacks (36 minutes)
  • Security hygiene and damage control.
• Skill 12.2: Protect assets from ransomware attacks (48 minutes)
  • Enter environment.
  • Traverse and spread.
  • Execute objective.
• Skill 12.3: Recommend Microsoft ransomware best practices (24 minutes)
  • Best practices.
• Summary
• Case Study
• Quiz

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