SC-200: Microsoft Security Operations Analyst Course Outline
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Overview
Learn how to investigate, respond to, and hunt for threats using Microsoft Azure Sentinel, Azure Defender, and Microsoft 365 Defender. In this course you will learn how to mitigate cyberthreats using these technologies. Specifically, you will configure and use Azure Sentinel as well as utilize Kusto Query Language (KQL) to perform detection, analysis, and reporting. The course was designed for people who work in a Security Operations job role and helps learners prepare for the exam SC-200: Microsoft Security Operations Analyst.
Audience profile
The Microsoft Security Operations Analyst collaborates with organizational stakeholders to secure information technology systems for the organization. Their goal is to reduce organizational risk by rapidly remediating active attacks in the environment, advising on improvements to threat protection practices, and referring violations of organizational policies to appropriate stakeholders. Responsibilities include threat management, monitoring, and response by using a variety of security solutions across their environment. The role primarily investigates, responds to, and hunts for threats using Microsoft Azure Sentinel, Azure Defender, Microsoft 365 Defender, and third-party security products. Since the Security Operations Analyst consumes the operational output of these tools, they are also a critical stakeholder in the configuration and deployment of these technologies.
Job role: Security Engineer
Preparation for exam: SC-200
Skills gained
Explain how Microsoft Defender for Endpoint can remediate risks in your environment
Create a Microsoft Defender for Endpoint environment
Configure Attack Surface Reduction rules on Windows 10 devices
Prerequisites
Basic understanding of Microsoft 365
Fundamental understanding of Microsoft security, compliance, and identity products
Intermediate understanding of Windows 10
Familiarity with Azure services, specifically Azure SQL Database and Azure Storage
Familiarity with Azure virtual machines and virtual networking
Basic understanding of scripting concepts.
Course outline
Module 1: Mitigate threats using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Implement the Microsoft Defender for Endpoint platform to detect, investigate, and respond to advanced threats. Learn how Microsoft Defender for Endpoint can help your organization stay secure. Learn how to deploy the Microsoft Defender for Endpoint environment, including onboarding devices and configuring security. Learn how to investigate incidents and alerts using Microsoft Defender for Endpoints. Perform advanced hunting and consult with threat experts. You will also learn how to configure automation in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint by managing environmental settings.. Lastly, you will learn about your environment's weaknesses by using Threat and Vulnerability Management in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.
Lessons
Protect against threats with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Deploy the Microsoft Defender for Endpoint environment
Implement Windows 10 security enhancements with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Manage alerts and incidents in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Perform device investigations in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Perform actions on a device using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Perform evidence and entities investigations using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Configure and manage automation using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Configure for alerts and detections in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Utilize Threat and Vulnerability Management in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Lab : Mitigate threats using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Deploy Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Mitigate Attacks using Defender for Endpoint
Module 2: Mitigate threats using Microsoft 365 Defender
Analyze threat data across domains and rapidly remediate threats with built-in orchestration and automation in Microsoft 365 Defender. Learn about cybersecurity threats and how the new threat protection tools from Microsoft protect your organization’s users, devices, and data. Use the advanced detection and remediation of identity-based threats to protect your Azure Active Directory identities and applications from compromise.
Lessons
Introduction to threat protection with Microsoft 365
Mitigate incidents using Microsoft 365 Defender
Protect your identities with Azure AD Identity Protection
Remediate risks with Microsoft Defender for Office 365
Safeguard your environment with Microsoft Defender for Identity
Secure your cloud apps and services with Microsoft Cloud App Security
Respond to data loss prevention alerts using Microsoft 365
Manage insider risk in Microsoft 365
Lab : Mitigate threats using Microsoft 365 Defender
Mitigate Attacks with Microsoft 365 Defender
Module 3: Mitigate threats using Azure Defender
Use Azure Defender integrated with Azure Security Center, for Azure, hybrid cloud, and on-premises workload protection and security. Learn the purpose of Azure Defender, Azure Defender's relationship to Azure Security Center, and how to enable Azure Defender. You will also learn about the protections and detections provided by Azure Defender for each cloud workload. Learn how you can add Azure Defender capabilities to your hybrid environment.
Lessons
Plan for cloud workload protections using Azure Defender
Explain cloud workload protections in Azure Defender
Connect Azure assets to Azure Defender
Connect non-Azure resources to Azure Defender
Remediate security alerts using Azure Defender
Lab : Mitigate threats using Azure Defender
Deploy Azure Defender
Mitigate Attacks with Azure Defender
Module 4: Create queries for Azure Sentinel using Kusto Query Language (KQL)
Write Kusto Query Language (KQL) statements to query log data to perform detections, analysis, and reporting in Azure Sentinel. This module will focus on the most used operators. The example KQL statements will showcase security related table queries. KQL is the query language used to perform analysis on data to create analytics, workbooks, and perform hunting in Azure Sentinel. Learn how basic KQL statement structure provides the foundation to build more complex statements. Learn how to summarize and visualize data with a KQL statement provides the foundation to build detections in Azure Sentinel. Learn how to use the Kusto Query Language (KQL) to manipulate string data ingested from log sources.
Lessons
Construct KQL statements for Azure Sentinel
Analyze query results using KQL
Build multi-table statements using KQL
Work with data in Azure Sentinel using Kusto Query Language
Lab : Create queries for Azure Sentinel using Kusto Query Language (KQL)
Construct Basic KQL Statements
Analyze query results using KQL
Build multi-table statements using KQL
Work with string data using KQL statements
Module 5: Configure your Azure Sentinel environment
Get started with Azure Sentinel by properly configuring the Azure Sentinel workspace. Traditional security information and event management (SIEM) systems typically take a long time to set up and configure. They're also not necessarily designed with cloud workloads in mind. Azure Sentinel enables you to start getting valuable security insights from your cloud and on-premises data quickly. This module helps you get started. Learn about the architecture of Azure Sentinel workspaces to ensure you configure your system to meet your organization's security operations requirements. As a Security Operations Analyst, you must understand the tables, fields, and data ingested in your workspace. Learn how to query the most used data tables in Azure Sentinel.
Lessons
Introduction to Azure Sentinel
Create and manage Azure Sentinel workspaces
Query logs in Azure Sentinel
Use watchlists in Azure Sentinel
Utilize threat intelligence in Azure Sentinel
Lab : Configure your Azure Sentinel environment
Create an Azure Sentinel Workspace
Create a Watchlist
Create a Threat Indicator
Module 6: Connect logs to Azure Sentinel
Connect data at cloud scale across all users, devices, applications, and infrastructure, both on-premises and in multiple clouds to Azure Sentinel. The primary approach to connect log data is using the Azure Sentinel provided data connectors. This module provides an overview of the available data connectors. You will get to learn about the configuration options and data provided by Azure Sentinel connectors for Microsoft 365 Defender.
Lessons
Connect data to Azure Sentinel using data connectors
Connect Microsoft services to Azure Sentinel
Connect Microsoft 365 Defender to Azure Sentinel
Connect Windows hosts to Azure Sentinel
Connect Common Event Format logs to Azure Sentinel
Connect syslog data sources to Azure Sentinel
Connect threat indicators to Azure Sentinel
Lab : Connect logs to Azure Sentinel
Connect Microsoft services to Azure Sentinel
Connect Windows hosts to Azure Sentinel
Connect Linux hosts to Azure Sentinel
Connect Threat intelligence to Azure Sentinel
Module 7: Create detections and perform investigations using Azure Sentinel
Detect previously uncovered threats and rapidly remediate threats with built-in orchestration and automation in Azure Sentinel. You will learn how to create Azure Sentinel playbooks to respond to security threats. You'll investigate Azure Sentinel incident management, learn about Azure Sentinel events and entities, and discover ways to resolve incidents. You will also learn how to query, visualize, and monitor data in Azure Sentinel.
Lessons
Threat detection with Azure Sentinel analytics
Threat response with Azure Sentinel playbooks
Security incident management in Azure Sentinel
Use entity behavior analytics in Azure Sentinel
Query, visualize, and monitor data in Azure Sentinel
Lab : Create detections and perform investigations using Azure Sentinel
Create Analytical Rules
Model Attacks to Define Rule Logic
Mitigate Attacks using Azure Sentinel
Create Workbooks in Azure Sentinel
Module 8: Perform threat hunting in Azure Sentinel
In this module, you'll learn to proactively identify threat behaviors by using Azure Sentinel queries. You'll also learn to use bookmarks and livestream to hunt threats. You will also learn how to use notebooks in Azure Sentinel for advanced hunting.
Lessons
Threat hunting with Azure Sentinel
Hunt for threats using notebooks in Azure Sentinel
Lab : Threat hunting in Azure Sentinel
Threat Hunting in Azure Sentinel
Threat Hunting using Notebooks
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