Azure Security Administration course with SIMULATIONS

We really hope you'll agree, this training is way more than the average course on Udemy!

Have access to the following:

• Training from an instructor of over 20 years who has trained thousands of people and also a Microsoft Certified Trainer

• Lecture that explains the concepts in an easy to learn method for someone that is just starting out with this material

• Instructor led hands on and simulations to practice that can be followed even if you have little to no experience

TOPICS COVERED INCLUDING HANDS ON LECTURE AND PRACTICE TUTORIALS:

Introduction

• Welcome to the course

• Understanding the Microsoft Environment

• Having a Solid Foundation of Active Directory Domains

• Having a Solid Foundation of RAS, DMZ, and Virtualization

• Having a Solid Foundation of the Microsoft Cloud Services

• Questions for John Christopher

Setting up for hands on

• IMPORTANT Using Assignments in the course

• Creating a free Azure Account

• Activating Azure AD P2 license

Azure AD Identity and Access Control Management as part of Microsoft Entra

• Concepts behind Azure AD, Azure ADDS and Microsoft Entra

• Creating Azure AD users as well as external identities

• Using groups for secure identity management

• Creating and Configuring administrative units

• Using managed identities for securing Azure resources

• Concepts of Azure Role Permissions regarding the management hierarchy

• Using roles for access management in Azure AD

• Creating and understanding custom roles in Azure Active Directory

• Just in Time (JIT) administration using Privileged Identity Management (PIM) in Azure AD

• Implementing Privileged Identity Management (PIM) in Azure

Understanding PowerShell in use with Microsoft Azure

• Important fundamentals of using PowerShell

• Getting PowerShell connected to Azure

• Managing Azure AD with PowerShell

• CloudShell in Azure

Manage secure access by using Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), part of Microsoft Entra

• Concepts of the Zero Trust Model in Azure

• Concepts of Defense in Depth

• Implementing Self Service Password Reset in Azure

• Implementing Multi Factor Authentication (MFA)

• Protecting accounts using Azure AD Identity Protection

• Improving security with access reviews in Azure AD

• Using Conditional Access policies

Securing storage accounts in Microsoft Azure

• Creating and Configuring a storage account in Azure

• Storage account access control

• Using access keys in storage accounts

• Using Shared Access Signature (SAS) tokens for granting access

• Configure stored access policies on storage accounts

• Azure Files identity-based authentication for storage accounts

Securing Microsoft Azure Networking

• Hybrid Network Security

• Creating virtual networks with subnets

• Using Network Security Groups (NSGs) and Application Security Groups (ASGs)

• Concepts of effective rules in IP filtering with an NSG

• Using route tables for directing traffic through the Azure Firewall

• Adding an Azure Firewall for security

• Configuring Azure DDoS Protection

• Understanding Azure Application Gateway vs Azure Front Door

• Creating an Azure Application Gateway

• Storage account resource firewall settings

Advanced security for virtual machine and container services

• Installing Endpoint Protection on virtual machines (VMs) using an extension

• Deploying security updates to VMs

• Securing container services

• Security for serverless compute

• Securing Azure App Services

Securing resources using Microsoft Azure policies

• Deploying a security policy in Azure

• Creating policy initiatives

• Deploying an initiative for Azure auditing

Using Microsoft Azure Defender Services

• Microsoft Defender for Cloud

• Microsoft Defender for Servers

• Using active recommendations in Defender for Cloud to find vulnerabilities

• Microsoft Defender for SQL

Microsoft Azure Key Vault Management

• Azure Key Vault creation

• Managing Azure Key Vault access control

• Creating Azure Key Vault keys, secrets and certificates

• Performing key rotation with Azure Key Vault

• Backing up objects in an Azure Key Vault

Configuring database security in Azure

• Installing a SQL Database/Server and using SSMS

• Managing SQL firewall settings for client connections

• Configuring database authentication

• Configuring database auditing

• Enabling dynamic masking on Azure SQL

• Configuring database encryption for Azure SQL

Microsoft Sentinel

• Understanding Microsoft Sentinel

• Adding a log analytics workspace needed for Microsoft Sentinel

• Using Microsoft Sentinel

Microsoft Azure Monitor

• Using Azure Monitor to create alerts

• Diagnostic logging and log retention in Azure Monitor

• Azure Monitor security logging

Finishing Up

• Where do I go from here?