This advanced course prepares students to design and evaluate cybersecurity strategies in areas such as Zero Trust, GRC, and SecOps. It focuses on architecting solutions using zero trust principles and specifying security requirements for cloud infrastructure across SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS models. Ideal for professionals aiming to enhance their expertise in cybersecurity architecture.

Learning Outcomes

• Build an Overall Security Strategy and Architecture
• Design a Security Operations Strategy
• Design an Identity Security Strategy
• Evaluate a Regulatory Compliance Strategy
• Evaluate Security Posture and Recommend Technical Strategies to Manage Risk
• Understand Architecture Best Practices and How They are Changing with the Cloud
• Design a Strategy for Securing Server and Client Endpoints
• Design a Strategy for Securing PaaS, IaaS, and SaaS Services
• Specify Security Requirement for Applications
• Design a Strategy for Securing Data
• Recommend security best practices using Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architectures (MCRA) and Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmarks
• Recommend a secure methodology using the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)
• Recommend a ransomware strategy by using Microsoft Security Best Practices

Prerequisites

Students must have advanced experience and knowledge in identity and access, platform protection, security operations, securing data, and securing applications, as well as experience with hybrid and cloud implementations. It is highly recommended to have attended and passed an associate-level certification such as AZ-500, SC-200, or SC-300.

Prerequisite Courses

• AZ-500
• SC-200
• SC-300