Microsoft 365 Security provides peace of mind by helping to protect people and data from cyberthreats.
Whether you’re a student, business user, or IT professional, this Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals certification ensures you have a firm grasp of a range of topics in the rapidly growing field of cybersecurity. This Security, Compliance and Identity (SCI) fundamentals certification can serve as a steppingstone if you are interested in advancing to role-based certifications in security operations, identity and access management, and information protection.
This 1-day fundamental Microsoft Security fundamentals training course will educate you with the principles of security, compliance, and identity (SCI) across cloud-based and associated Microsoft services.
Training Duration: 1 Day
Minimum private group training class: 5 Participants
- Certificate Of Completion Available
- Group Private Class
- VILT Class Available
- SBL-Khas Claimable
This SC-900T00: Microsoft Security, Compliance, And Identity Fundamentals course provides foundational level knowledge on security, compliance, and identity concepts and related cloud-based Microsoft solutions.
After completing this cybersecurity course, students will be able to:
- Describe basic concepts of security, compliance, and identity.
- Describe the concepts and capabilities of Microsoft identity and access management solutions.
- Describe the capabilities of Microsoft security solutions.
- Describe the compliance management capabilities in Microsoft.
The audience for this cybersecurity course is looking to familiarize themselves with the fundamentals of security, compliance, and identity (SCI) across cloud-based and related Microsoft services. The content for this course aligns to the SC-900 exam objective domain. Candidates should be familiar with Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 and understand how Microsoft security, compliance, and identity solutions can span across these solution areas to provide a holistic and end-to-end solution.
Before attending this cybersecurity course, students must have:
- General understanding of networking and cloud computing concepts.
- General IT knowledge or any general experience working in an IT environment.
- General understanding of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365.
Module 1: Describe the concepts of security, compliance, and identity.
Learn about core concepts that are foundational to security, compliance, and identity solutions, including shared responsibility, Zero Trust, data residency, the role of identity providers, and more.Lessons
- Describe security and compliance concepts
- Describe identity concepts
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Describe security and compliance concepts.
- Describe identity concepts.
Module 2: Describe the capabilities of Microsoft identity and access management solutions
Azure Active Directory is the tool for identity and access management in the Microsoft Cloud. Learn about Azure AD services and identity principals, secure authentication, access management capabilities, as well as identity protection and governance.Lessons
- Describe the basic services and identity types of Azure AD
- Describe the authentication capabilities of Azure AD
- Describe the access management capabilities of Azure AD
- Describe the identity protection and governance capabilities of Azure AD
Lab : Explore Azure Active Directory
Lab : Explore Azure AD Authentication with self-service password reset
Lab : Explore access management in Azure AD with Conditional Access
Lab : Explore identity governance in Azure AD with Privileged Identity ManagementAfter completing this module, students will be able to:
- Describe the basic services and identity types of Azure AD.
- Describe the authentication capabilities of Azure AD.
- Describe the access management capabilities of Azure AD.
- Describe the identity protection and governance capabilities of Azure AD.
Module 3: Describe the capabilities of Microsoft security solutions
Learn about Microsoft’s security solutions. Topics covered include network and platform capabilities of Azure, Azure security management with Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and Microsoft Sentinel. You’ll learn about threat protection with Microsoft 365 Defender.Lessons
- Describe the basic security capabilities in Azure
- Describe the security management capabilities of Azure
- Describe the security capabilities of Microsoft Sentinel
- Describe the threat protection capabilities of Microsoft 365 Defender
Lab : Explore Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
Lab : Explore Microsoft Sentinel
Lab : Explore Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Lab : Explore Azure Network Security Groups (NSGs)
Lab : Explore the Microsoft 365 Defender portalAfter completing this module, students will be able to:
- Describe the basic security capabilities in Azure.
- Describe the security management capabilities of Azure.
- Describe the security capabilities of Microsoft Sentinel.
- Describe the threat protection capabilities of Microsoft 365 Defender.
Module 4: Describe the capabilities of Microsoft compliance solutions
Learn about Microsoft’s Service Trust Portal and privacy at Microsoft. You’ll learn about Microsoft Purview, a comprehensive set of solutions that help you govern, protect, and manage your entire data estate. You’ll also learn about Azure resource governance capabilities.Lessons
- Describe the Service Trust Portal and privacy at Microsoft
- Describe the compliance management capabilities of Microsoft Purview
- Describe information protection and data lifecycle management in Microsoft Purview
- Describe the insider risk capabilities in Microsoft Purview
- Describe the eDiscovery and audit capabilities of Microsoft Purview
- Describe the resource governance capabilities in Azure
Lab : Explore the Core eDiscovery workflow
Lab : Explore Azure Policy
Lab : Explore the Service Trust Portal
Lab : Explore the Microsoft Purview compliance portal & Compliance Manager
Lab : Explore sensitivity labels in Microsoft Purview
Lab : Explore insider risk management in Microsoft PurviewAfter completing this module, students will be able to:
- Describe the Service Trust Portal and privacy at Microsoft.
- Describe the compliance management capabilities of Microsoft Purview.
- Describe information protection and data lifecycle management in Microsoft Purview.
- Describe the insider risk capabilities in Microsoft Purview.
- Describe the eDiscovery and audit capabilities of Microsoft Purview.
- Describe the resource governance capabilities in Azure
SC-200T00: Microsoft Security Operations Analyst
Learn how to investigate, respond to, and hunt for threats using Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and Microsoft 365 Defender. In this Microsoft Security Operations Analyst 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.
SC-300T00: Microsoft Identity And Access Administrator
This SC-300T00: Microsoft Identity And Access Administrator course provides IT Identity and Access Professional, along with IT Security Professional, with the knowledge and skills needed to implement identity management solutions based on Microsoft Azure AD, and it connected identity technologies.
SC-400T00: Microsoft Information Protection Administrator
The SC-400T00: Microsoft Information Protection Administrator course covers implementation of data loss prevention policies, sensitive information types, sensitivity labels, data retention policies and Office 365 message encryption among other related topics.
SC-100T00: Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect
This certification will concentrate on creating aspects of a cybersecurity architecture and weighing the benefits and drawbacks of various options.
MS-500T00: Microsoft 365 Security Administration
In this MS-500T00: Microsoft 365 Security Administration course you will learn how to secure user access to your organization’s resources.
AZ-500T00: Microsoft Azure Security Technologies
This AZ-500T00: Microsoft Azure Security Technologies course provides IT Security Professionals with the knowledge and skills needed to implement security controls, maintain an organization’s security posture, and identify and remediate security vulnerabilities.
The SC-900T00: Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals course prepares learners for the Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals certification.
The SC-900 exam measures your ability to describe the following: concepts of security, compliance, and identity; capabilities of Microsoft identity and access management solutions; capabilities of Microsoft Security solutions; and capabilities of Microsoft compliance solutions.
Skills measured
- Describe the concepts of security, compliance, and identity (10-15%)
- Describe the capabilities of Microsoft identity and access management solutions (25-30%)
- Describe the capabilities of Microsoft Security solutions (25-30%)
- Describe the capabilities of Microsoft compliance solutions (25-30%)
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