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Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect – Flexible Training («SC100V»)

This SC-100 training consists of a maximum of 2 half-day sessions per week for a maximum of 4 weeks. Click «Timetable» for the session plan at the bottom of the page where you select your desired date.

Vendor code

SC-100

Duration 4 days

Price 3'400.–

Course documents Official Microsoft Courseware and Microsoft Learn

Alternative learning format available: Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect – Intensive Training («SC100»)

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Course facts

Key Learnings

Designing a Zero Trust strategy and architecture
Evaluating Governance Risk Compliance (GRC) technical strategies and security operations strategies
Designing security for infrastructure
Designing a strategy for data and applications

Content

The content of this flexible training is derived from the exam «SC-100: Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect». Start preparing for the course on Microsoft Learn now and use the Learning Support if you have any questions. During the 3h instructor sessions you will work with the official Microsoft course material (more information under «Methodology & didactics»).

This course prepares students with the background to design and evaluate cybersecurity strategies in the following areas: Zero Trust, Governance Risk Compliance (GRC), security operations (SecOps), and data and applications.

Module 1: Build an overall security strategy and architecture
Lessons

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

Module 2: Design a security operations strategy
Lessons

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

Module 3: Design an identity security strategy
Lessons

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

Module 4: Evaluate a regulatory compliance strategy
Lessons

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
Lessons

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
Lessons

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

Module 7: Design a strategy for securing server and client endpoints
Lessons

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
Lessons

Specify security baselines for PaaS, IaaS, and SaaS services
Specify security requirements for IoT, data, web, and storage workloads
Specify security requirements for containers and container orchestration

Module 9: Specify security requirements for applications
Lessons

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

Module 10: Design a strategy for securing data
Lessons

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

Methodology & didactics

Digicomp Flexible Learning Approach:

Training modality: During a period of 4 weeks, 6-8 half-day (3h each) virtual live sessions with our Azure MCT experts will take place. The sessions are already planned and can be easily combined with the daily work routine. Between the sessions there is enough time to process the learned knowledge.
Detailed Session Plan: Click «Timetable» at the bottom of the page where you select your desired date.

Target audience

IT professionals with advanced experience and knowledge in a wide range of security engineering areas, including identity and access, platform protection, security operations, securing data, and securing applications. They should also have experience with hybrid and cloud implementations.

Requirements

Advanced experience and knowledge in identity and access, platform protection, security operations, securing data and securing applications
Experience with hybrid and cloud implementations

5 days

CHF

3'400.–