Microsoft Defender Cloud Compliance - Secure Azure Services

Upon completion of this course, you will be adequately prepared to take Microsoft's Secure Azure services and workloads with Microsoft Defender for Cloud regulatory compliance controls Applied Skill assessment. This course covers all necessary content and provides essential practice to boost your confidence and ensure success in the final assessment. Intro to Secure Azure Cloud Services/Workloads and Microsoft Defender Regulatory Compliance Controls Innovation meets Efficiency when you add Microsoft Defender to the most widely integrated cloud used by professionals. This short course was designed to centralize your security needs for the over 200 Azure Services today, that blend across all categories of Azure Cloud. Once you have completed this course, you will be amazed at how you can consolidate numerous, cumbersome processes into a centralized hub, streamline efficiency, expedite tasks and minimize the risk of overlooking any crucial steps. By the end of this 1.5 hour course, you will be able to: Prepare the Microsoft Azure Lab Environment Create and Configure Log Analytics workspace for Microsoft Defender in Azure Cloud Prepare an environment in Microsoft Defender to defend cloud services against threats Simplify and assemble a log agent to employ centralization Prepare and Implement an Azure Key Vault Some new skills and tips you will take away are: What are Workspaces and KQL Query and why you need them Learning about how threats grow to your environment and how Microsoft Defender evolves to assist with them How Log Agents will take all your loose end security fears and centralize them for a more confident solution Using Azure Key Vaults to lock away Secrets and Certificates, and how to create policies to access them by only the right users This course is unique because your expert guide will take you on the journey of Microsoft Defender in the Azure Cloud, and point you to the most important resources, without you having to dig through the documentation, and help menus to get what you need. Once you experience this course, you will know exactly where to begin, applying your new skills daily, and how to keep up with the future of Cloud Security. Although the course does not expect pre-requisite classes, to be successful in this course, it will be helpful if you have some experience with terminology, or working with Azure Services, such as Virtual Networks, Virtual Machines, Firewalls, DNS, and Network Security Groups. We also highly recommend taking this course before you get you started if you do not have any prior experience: - Configure secure access to your workloads using Azure networking" course, also offered by Coursera. Good News! You can obtain a free Azure Trial Account Here: https://azure.microsoft.com/ to perform the hands on labs. (We highly recommend NOT using your work account as we will be putting hands on labs into the account that could interfere with your current setup). https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/purchase-options/azure-account Want more great news? Microsoft Defender is free for your first 30 days, so you will get to see the environment, use it hands on, at no cost to the learner.

• Defender Compliance Essentials for Securing Azure Cloud Services
• Users will explore various tools within Microsoft Defender that ensure regulatory compliance in the Azure Cloud.
• Lesson 1: Prepare the Microsoft Lab Environment
• In this foundational lesson, you will be able to prepare your own lab environment with a free trial of Microsoft Azure. We will also explore the trial’s features and options throughout this lesson and short course to prepare you for used cases in real-world environments.
• Lesson 2: Create a Log Analytics Workspace for Microsoft Defender in Azure Cloud
• In this lesson, you will be able to gain a better understanding of the kind of data we seek to collect with Microsoft Defender, where to put that data, how to structure it and how to access it through the use of KQL queries when result sets are needed for monitoring, and compliance.
• Lesson 3: Microsoft Defender Set Up for Azure Cloud
• This Lesson is the most critical in the course because it focuses on Microsoft Defender which is an arsenal of tools that were designed to help secure, support, monitor and track security issues from within any environment, dependent on the compliance factors at a specific company or home business. Microsoft Defender has a 30-day free trial, but is an add-on which is optional for companies to purchase. In this lesson, we will explore the ease with which Defender is installed, and the bevy of controls and tools it uses to support any compliance rules.
• Lesson 4: Configure and Integrate a Log Analytics Agent
• In this lesson, you will see how lessons 1-3 in the course are connected as we dig deeper into configuring and integrating log analytics into your environment.
• Lesson 5: Preparing Azure Key Vaults
• In this lesson, you will be able to navigate Microsoft's Azure Key Vault Service while learning how Key Vault protects cryptographic keys and secrets essential for cloud applications and services.