I. Overview:

This course provides introductory level knowledge on security, compliance, and identity concepts and related cloud-based Microsoft solutions.

II. Duration: 01 days (08 hours)

III. Intended Audience:

The audience for this course is looking to obtain an introduction to 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.

IV. Prerequisites:

Before attending this 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.

V. Course outlines:

1. Introduction to security, compliance, and identity concepts

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.

• Describe security and compliance concepts: Learn about common security and compliance concepts that are foundational to Microsoft solutions. Topics include the shared responsibility and Zero Trust models, encryption, data residency and data sovereignty, and more.
• Describe identity concepts: Learn about the key concepts of authentication and authorization and why identity is important in securing corporate resources. You'll also learn about some identity-related services.

2. Introduction to Microsoft Entra

Microsoft Entra ID is Microsoft's cloud-based identity and access management solution. Learn about Microsoft Entra services and identity principals, secure authentication, access management capabilities, as well as identity protection and governance.

• Describe the function and identity types of Microsoft Entra ID: Microsoft Entra ID is Microsoft's cloud-based identity and access management solution that connects people to their apps, devices, and data. Learn about the functions and identity types supported by Microsoft Entra ID.
• Describe the authentication capabilities of Microsoft Entra ID: Learn about the authentication capabilities of Microsoft Entra ID, including multifactor authentication, and how they improve security. You'll also learn about self-service password reset (SSPR) and the password protection and management capabilities.
• Describe access management capabilities of Microsoft Entra: A key function of Microsoft Entra is to manage access. Learn about Microsoft's Security Service Edge (SSE) solution, conditional access, and how Microsoft Entra roles and role-based access control (RBAC) help organizations manage access.
• Describe the identity protection and governance capabilities of Microsoft Entra: Microsoft Entra provides identity protection and governance capabilities. Learn about these capabilities, the use cases, and benefits.

3. Introduction to Microsoft security solutions

Learn about security capabilities in Microsoft. Topics covered will include network and platform capabilities of Azure, Azure security management, and Sentinel. You'll learn about threat protection with Microsoft Defender XDR and Microsoft 365 security management.

• Describe Microsoft Security Copilot: Get acquainted with Microsoft Security Copilot. You're introduced to some basic terminology, how Microsoft Security Copilot processes prompts, the elements of an effective prompt, and how to enable the solution.
• Describe core infrastructure security services in Azure: Learn about capabilities Azure supports to protect your network, VMs, and your data.
• Describe the security management capabilities in Azure: Learn about Microsoft Defender for Cloud and the capabilities it brings together to protect your cloud through secure score, recommendations, and enhanced features that provide cloud workload protection.
• Describe security capabilities of Microsoft Sentinel: Learn about Microsoft Sentinel a scalable, cloud-native, security information event management (SIEM), and security orchestration automated response (SOAR) solution. In this module, you'll also be introduced to Microsoft Security Copilot.
• Describe threat protection with Microsoft Defender XDR: Protect against cyber threats with Microsoft Defender XDR across endpoints, identities, email, and applications.

4. Introduction to Microsoft Priva and Microsoft Purview

Learn about compliance solutions in Microsoft. Topics covered will include the Microsoft Purview compliance portal, Information protection and governance in Microsoft 365, Insider Risk, audit, and eDiscovery solutions. Also covered are Azure resources governance capabilities.

• Describe Microsoft's Service Trust portal and privacy capabilities: Microsoft runs on trust! Here you'll explore the Service Trust Portal for content on how Microsoft delivers on our commitment of trust. You'll also learn about Microsoft Priva, a solution to help meet privacy goals.
• Describe the data security solutions of Microsoft Purview: Describe the data security solutions of Microsoft Purview.
• Describe the data compliance solutions of Microsoft Purview: Learn how Microsoft Purview data compliance solutions help organizations manage risk and regulatory requirements.
• Describe the data governance solutions of Microsoft Purview: Learn about Microsoft Purview data governance solutions that leverage AI and modern technologies to ensure data quality, security, and compliance while also accelerating value creation.