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Duration
4 Days
24 CPD hours
This course is intended for
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 Sentinel, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, 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.
Learn how to investigate, respond to, and hunt for threats using Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and Microsoft 365 Defender. In this course you will learn how to mitigate cyberthreats using these technologies. Specifically, you will configure and use Microsoft 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.
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.
Explore Extended Detection & Response (XDR) response use cases
Understand Microsoft Defender XDR in a Security Operations Center (SOC)
Explore Microsoft Security Graph
Investigate security incidents in Microsoft Defender XDR
Use the Microsoft Defender portal
Manage incidents
Investigate incidents
Manage and investigate alerts
Manage automated investigations
Use the action center
Explore advanced hunting
Investigate Microsoft Entra sign-in logs
Understand Microsoft Secure Score
Analyze threat analytics
Analyze reports
Configure the Microsoft Defender portal
Microsoft Entra ID Protection overview
Detect risks with Microsoft Entra ID Protection policies
Investigate and remediate risks detected by Microsoft Entra ID Protection
Automate, investigate, and remediate
Configure, protect, and detect
Simulate attacks
Configure Microsoft Defender for Identity sensors
Review compromised accounts or data
Integrate with other Microsoft tools
Understand the Defender for Cloud Apps Framework
Explore your cloud apps with Cloud Discovery
Protect your data and apps with Conditional Access App Control
Walk through discovery and access control with Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
Classify and protect sensitive information
Detect Threats
Describe data loss prevention alerts
Investigate data loss prevention alerts in Microsoft Purview
Investigate data loss prevention alerts in Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
Insider risk management overview
Create and manage insider risk policies
Investigate insider risk alerts
Take action on insider risk alerts through cases
Manage insider risk management forensic evidence
Create insider risk management notice templates
Explore Microsoft Purview Audit solutions
Implement Microsoft Purview Audit (Standard)
Start recording activity in the Unified Audit Log
Search the Unified Audit Log (UAL)
Export, configure, and view audit log records
Use audit log searching to investigate common support issues
Explore Microsoft Purview Audit (Premium)
Implement Microsoft Purview Audit (Premium)
Manage audit log retention policies
Investigate compromised email accounts using Purview Audit (Premium)
Explore Microsoft Purview eDiscovery solutions
Create a content search
View the search results and statistics
Export the search results and search report
Configure search permissions filtering
Search for and delete email messages
Practice security administration
Hunt threats within your network
Create your environment
Understand operating systems compatibility and features
Onboard devices
Manage access
Create and manage roles for role-based access control
Configure device groups
Configure environment advanced features
Understand attack surface reduction
Enable attack surface reduction rules
Use the device inventory list
Investigate the device
Use behavioral blocking
Detect devices with device discovery
Explain device actions
Run Microsoft Defender antivirus scan on devices
Collect investigation package from devices
Initiate live response session
Investigate a file
Investigate a user account
Investigate an IP address
Investigate a domain
Configure advanced features
Manage automation upload and folder settings
Configure automated investigation and remediation capabilities
Block at risk devices
Configure advanced features
Configure alert notifications
Manage alert suppression
Manage indicators
Understand vulnerability management
Explore vulnerabilities on your devices
Manage remediation
Explain Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Describe Microsoft Defender for Cloud workload protections
Enable Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Explore and manage your resources with asset inventory
Configure auto provisioning
Manual log analytics agent provisioning
Protect non-Azure resources
Connect non-Azure machines
Connect your AWS accounts
Connect your GCP accounts
Explore Secure Score
Explore Recommendations
Measure and enforce regulatory compliance
Understand Workbooks
Understand Microsoft Defender for servers
Understand Microsoft Defender for App Service
Understand Microsoft Defender for Storage
Understand Microsoft Defender for SQL
Understand Microsoft Defender for open-source databases
Understand Microsoft Defender for Key Vault
Understand Microsoft Defender for Resource Manager
Understand Microsoft Defender for DNS
Understand Microsoft Defender for Containers
Understand Microsoft Defender additional protections
Understand security alerts
Remediate alerts and automate responses
Suppress alerts from Defender for Cloud
Generate threat intelligence reports
Respond to alerts from Azure resources
Understand the Kusto Query Language statement structure
Use the search operator
Use the where operator
Use the let statement
Use the extend operator
Use the order by operator
Use the project operators
Use the summarize operator
Use the summarize operator to filter results
Use the summarize operator to prepare data
Use the render operator to create visualizations
Use the union operator
Use the join operator
Extract data from unstructured string fields
Extract data from structured string data
Integrate external data
Create parsers with functions
What is Microsoft Sentinel?
How Microsoft Sentinel works
When to use Microsoft Sentinel
Plan for the Microsoft Sentinel workspace
Create a Microsoft Sentinel workspace
Manage workspaces across tenants using Azure Lighthouse
Understand Microsoft Sentinel permissions and roles
Manage Microsoft Sentinel settings
Configure logs
Query logs in the logs page
Understand Microsoft Sentinel tables
Understand common tables
Understand Microsoft Defender XDR tables
Plan for watchlists
Create a watchlist
Manage watchlists
Define threat intelligence
Manage your threat indicators
View your threat indicators with KQL
Ingest log data with data connectors
Understand data connector providers
View connected hosts
Plan for Microsoft services connectors
Connect the Microsoft Office 365 connector
Connect the Microsoft Entra connector
Connect the Microsoft Entra ID Protection connector
Connect the Azure Activity connector
Plan for Microsoft Defender XDR connectors
Connect the Microsoft Defender XDR connector
Connect Microsoft Defender for Cloud connector
Connect Microsoft Defender for IoT
Connect Microsoft Defender legacy connectors
Plan for Windows hosts security events connector
Connect using the Windows Security Events via AMA Connector
Connect using the Security Events via Legacy Agent Connector
Collect Sysmon event logs
Plan for Common Event Format connector
Connect your external solution using the Common Event Format connector
Plan for syslog data collection
Collect data from Linux-based sources using syslog
Configure the Data Collection Rule for Syslog Data Sources
Parse syslog data with KQL
Plan for threat intelligence connectors
Connect the threat intelligence TAXII connector
Connect the threat intelligence platforms connector
View your threat indicators with KQL
What is Microsoft Sentinel Analytics?
Types of analytics rules
Create an analytics rule from templates
Create an analytics rule from wizard
Manage analytics rules
Understand automation options
Create automation rules
What are Microsoft Sentinel playbooks?
Trigger a playbook in real-time
Run playbooks on demand
Understand incidents
Incident evidence and entities
Incident management
Understand behavioral analytics
Explore entities
Display entity behavior information
Use Anomaly detection analytical rule templates
Understand data normalization
Use ASIM Parsers
Understand parameterized KQL functions
Create an ASIM Parser
Configure Azure Monitor Data Collection Rules
Monitor and visualize data
Query data using Kusto Query Language
Use default Microsoft Sentinel Workbooks
Create a new Microsoft Sentinel Workbook
Use solutions from the content hub
Use repositories for deployment
Understand cybersecurity threat hunts
Develop a hypothesis
Explore MITRE ATT&CK
Explore creation and management of threat-hunting queries
Save key findings with bookmarks
Observe threats over time with livestream
Hunt with a Search Job
Restore historical data
Access Azure Sentinel data with external tools
Hunt with notebooks
Create a notebook
Explore notebook code
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