SC-100T00: Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect

This SC-100T00: Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect 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.

 

Students will also learn how to design and architect solutions using zero trust principles and specify security requirements for cloud infrastructure in different service models (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS).

• 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

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.

Before attending this course, students must have:

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

Module 1: Build an overall security strategy and
architecture
Learn how to build an overall security strategy and architecture.

Lessons

• 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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• 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 security strategy for hybrid and multi-tenant environments
• Design technical and governance strategies for traffic filtering and segmentation

Module 2: Design a security operations strategy
Learn how to design a security operations strategy.

Lessons

• 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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• 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, A
• Evaluate security workflows.
• Review security strategies for incident management.
• Evaluate security operations for technical threat intelligence.
• Monitor sources for insights on threats and mitigations.

Module 3: Design an identity security strategy
Learn how to design an identity security strategy.

Lessons

• 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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• 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 access.

Module 4: Evaluate a regulatory compliance strategy
Learn how to evaluate a regulatory compliance strategy.

Lessons

• 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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• 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
Learn how to evaluate security posture and recommend technical
strategies to manage risk.

Lessons

• 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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• 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
Learn about architecture best practices and how they are changing
with the Cloud.

Lessons

• 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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Describe best practices for network segmentation and traffic filtering.
• Plan and implement a security strategy across teams.
• Establish a strategy and process for proactive and continuous evaluation of security strategy.

Module 7: Design a strategy for securing server and client endpoints
Learn how to design a strategy for securing server and client
endpoints.

Lessons

• 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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• 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
Learn how to design a strategy for securing PaaS, IaaS, and SaaS
services.

Lessons

• 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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

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

Module 9: Specify security requirements for applications
Learn how to specify security requirements for applications.

Lessons

• 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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• 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
Learn how to design a strategy for securing data.

Lessons

• Introduction
• 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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• 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

The SC-100T00: Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect course prepares learners for the Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert certification.  To attain this credential, candidates need to complete and pass SC-100: Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect exam in addition to the following prerequisites (choose ONE):

 

Option 1: Microsoft Certified: Security Operations Analyst Associate

Option 2: Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate

Option 3: Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate

Option 4: Microsoft 365 Certified: Security Administrator Associate

 

This exam measures your ability to accomplish the following technical tasks: design a Zero Trust strategy and architecture; evaluate Governance Risk Compliance (GRC) technical strategies and security operations strategies; design security for infrastructure; and design a strategy for data and applications.

 

Skills measured

 

• Design a Zero Trust strategy and architecture (30–35%)
• Evaluate Governance Risk Compliance (GRC) technical strategies and security operations strategies (20–25%)
• Design security for infrastructure (20–25%)
• Design a strategy for data and applications (20–25%)

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Are cybersecurity skills important in today's digital landscape?

 

With the increasing use of technology and the internet, cybersecurity threats have become more frequent, sophisticated, and damaging. Cyber attacks can result in data breaches, identity theft, financial loss, and even physical harm in some cases.

 

Therefore, it is crucial for individuals and organizations to have strong cybersecurity measures in place to protect their sensitive information and systems. This requires a workforce with the necessary skills to identify, prevent, and respond to cyber threats. Cybersecurity skills can include knowledge of network security, encryption, malware analysis, penetration testing, incident response, and more.

Moreover, as technology continues to advance and new threats emerge, the demand for cybersecurity skills is only expected to grow. As such, investing in cybersecurity training and education can not only protect against cyber attacks but also create valuable career opportunities.

 

Are Microsoft certifications worth it?
 

In today's fast-paced and highly competitive world of technology, it's more important than ever to stay ahead of the curve and differentiate yourself as a skilled professional.
 

Microsoft certifications are globally recognized, industry-standard credentials that showcase your expertise in various Microsoft technologies, making them a worthwhile investment in your career growth. By obtaining a Microsoft certification, you're not only validating your skills and knowledge, but also demonstrating your commitment to continuous learning and staying current with the latest industry trends.
 

Microsoft certifications cater to a wide range of roles, including developers, administrators, data professionals, and IT managers, providing a versatile pathway to career advancement. As organizations increasingly rely on Microsoft technologies such as Azure, Office 365, and Dynamics 365, the demand for certified professionals continues to grow. A Microsoft certification not only improves your employability, but also enhances your earning potential and credibility within your field.
 

Additionally, as a certified Microsoft professional, you gain access to exclusive resources, networking opportunities, and events, further elevating your career. Invest in your future by pursuing Microsoft certifications and unlock a world of opportunities, growth, and success in the ever-evolving technology landscape.

Are Microsoft cybersecurity certifications worth my time?

 

Microsoft cybersecurity certifications can be an excellent way to demonstrate your expertise in Microsoft technologies and stand out from other candidates in a competitive job market.

With Microsoft Security, Compliance and Identity certifications, you can showcase your skills and knowledge in areas such as threat management, identity and access management, and cloud security. Employers around the world recognize the value of Microsoft certifications, so earning one can open up numerous career opportunities and help you advance in your field.

But that's not all. Microsoft offers a range of certifications that cater to different skill levels and interests, so you can choose the certification that best suits your career goals. And with Microsoft's commitment to staying ahead of emerging cybersecurity threats, you can be sure that the certifications you earn will remain relevant and valuable for years to come.

So why wait? Invest in your future with a Microsoft cybersecurity certification and take your career to the next level!