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SC-100: Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect
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SC-100: Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect
Build your expertise in cybersecurity strategies. Learn how to design solutions using Zero Trust principles. And discover how cybersecurity architects specify security requirements for cloud solutions across SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS.
Benefit from instructor-led preparation for the SC-100 certification exam with tips, tricks, guidance, and mentored support.
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SC-100: Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect is a four-day, advanced level course that teaches you how to design and evaluate cybersecurity strategies. The topics covered include: Zero Trust, governance risk compliance (GRC), security operations (SecOps), security requirements for cloud infrastructure across various service models (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS), and data and applications. To get the most out of this course, you should have significant experience and knowledge of a wide range of security engineering areas and hybrid and cloud implementations.
During this course, you will learn how to design a security strategy and its related architecture considering multiple parameters. You will explore how to evaluate security workflows and security operations for technical threat intelligence. You will extend your knowledge of evaluating regulatory compliance strategy, and discover more about designing a security strategy for privileged role access to infrastructure. Plus, you will learn how to evaluate security posture using different tools, including Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Secure Scores and more.
Additionally, you will develop skills for recommending controls for risk mitigations and setting up a process for proactive and continuous evaluation of security strategies. You will look at how to design a strategy to manage secrets, keys, and certificates, and how to provide secure remote access at server and client endpoints. You will learn to design a strategy to secure PaaS, IaaS, and SaaS services, IoT workloads, and container orchestration. Plus, you will learn how to specify security strategy for the applications, API, and data.
Overall, this course will prepare you for taking the SC-100: Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect certification exam. To become a Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert, you also need to gain any one of the following certifications: SC-200/ SC-300/ AZ-500/ MS-500. Entry for these exams is not included. However, you will get a clear overview of the Microsoft certification process, plus you will get the tips and tricks, testing strategies, practice questions and useful information to help you pass the exam successfully.
This course comprises 10 purposely designed modules that take you on a carefully defined learning journey.
It is an instructor-led course which runs to a fixed schedule, with set start and finish dates. It is driven forward by your instructor and features live sessions that are aired at a set time. You will, however, have time to complete certain activities at your own pace outside of the live sessions.
The materials for each module are accessible from the start of the course and will remain available for the duration of your enrollment. Methods of learning and assessment will include reading material, hands-on labs and online practice exam questions.
As part of our mentoring service you will have access to valuable guidance and support throughout the course. We provide a dedicated discussion space where you can ask questions, chat with your peers, and resolve issues.
Once you have successfully completed the course, you will earn your Certificate of Completion.
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Design a Zero Trust strategy and architecture.
- Evaluate governance risk compliance (GRC) technical strategies and security operations strategies.
- Design security for infrastructure.
- Design a strategy for data and applications.
- Cybersecurity architects.
- Cybersecurity administrators.
- Security engineers.
- Security operations analysts.
- Solution architects.
- IDAM professionals.
- Cybersecurity professionals.
- Professional looking to take the SC-100 certification exam.
Before attending this course:
- We highly recommend that you have passed one of the associate level certifications in the Microsoft security, compliance and identity portfolio. For example, AZ-500, SC-200 or SC-300.
- You need advanced experience and knowledge in identity and access, platform protection, security operations, securing data and securing applications.
- You need experience with hybrid and cloud implementations.
This course will help you to prepare for the SC-100: Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect certification exam.
In this course, you will explore design and evaluate cybersecurity strategies in the following areas: Zero Trust, governance risk compliance (GRC), security operations (SecOps), and data and applications.
- You will learn how to design and architect solutions using Zero Trust principles.
- You will learn how to specify security requirements for cloud infrastructure in different service models (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS).
When you take this course, you will also get information and guidance on the Microsoft certification process, knowledge checks and practice questions, and useful tips on how to pass the exam.
Course Outline
Introduction
Grading Scheme
Pre-Requisite
Exam and Certification Details
About this module
Introduction
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
Knowledge check
Summary
Knowledge Check
About this module
Introduction
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
Knowledge Check
About this module
Introduction
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
Knowledge Check
About this module
Introduction
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
Knowledge Check
About this module
Introduction
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
Knowledge Check
About this module
Introduction
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
Knowledge Check
About this module
Introduction
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
Knowledge Check
About this module
Introduction
Specify security baselines for PaaS services
Specify security baselines for IaaS services
Specify security baselines for SaaS services
Specify security requirements for IoT workloads
Specify security requirements for data workloads
Specify security requirements for web workloads
Specify security requirements for storage workloads
Specify security requirements for containers
Specify security requirements for container orchestration
Knowledge Check
About this module
Introduction
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
Knowledge Check
About this module
Introduction
Prioritize mitigating threats to data
Design a strategy to identify and protect sensitive data
Knowledge Check
Instructions
Practice Set 1
Practice Set 2
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FAQs
A cybersecurity architect oversees planning, development, and management of the security solutions that protect an organization's information technology network, including computer systems and data.
Every sector, from government to corporate, military to medical, financial to personal, needs cybersecurity. Wherever a business collects, stores, and transmits data, its required. The demand for cybersecurity professionals in a range of industries is increasing, as the number of digital transactions grows. Thus, to put it simply, there is a high demand out in the market for people with the right skills. Certification is one way of proving to a prospective employer that you have those skills.
Candidates for this exam should have advanced knowledge and experience of a variety of security engineering domains, including identity and access, platform protection, security operations, data security, and application security. You should also have prior hybrid and cloud deployment experience.
Yes, Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert certification is associated with this exam. Microsoft cybersecurity architects have deep knowledge of building and evolving cybersecurity strategies to defend an organization's data and business processes across all parts of its enterprise architecture.
The steps to gaining certification in SC-100: Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect (beta) course are as follows:
Step 1: Work with a Microsoft authorised training partner to complete the SC-100 recommended training. Microsoft has approved SKillUp Online as a training partner.
Step 2: Go to Microsoft's official website when you've finished the course. Register for the SC-100: Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect (beta) exam with Pearson VUE and schedule it.
Step 3: Take and pass the exam to become certified.
Yes, you will be issued a Certificate of Completion from SkillUp Online when you complete this SC-100: Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect (beta) course. You can then upload it to your LinkedIn profile.
Before attending this course:
- We recommend that you have an associate level certification in the Microsoft security, compliance and identity portfolio. E.g. AZ-500, SC-200 or SC-300.
- You need to have advanced expertise and experience in identity and access management, platform security, security operations, data security, and application security.
- You need to have experience with hybrid and cloud implementations.
Type of certificate
Certificate of Completion
About this course
10 Modules
02 Skills
Includes
Discussion space
01 Lab
10 Knowledge checks
01 Practice exam
Create
Create and manage Azure AD users
User defined routes and network virtual appliances
Application security groups
Virtual machine templates
Key Vault keys
Create and manage roles for role-based access control
Microsoft Sentinel workspace
Exercises to explore
Azure Active Directory features
Azure AD identity protection
Multifactor authentication in Azure
Zero Trust model
Hub and spoke topology
Network security groups (NSG)
Containers and Azure Container Registry (ACR)
Azure Key Vault
Azure hardware security module
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