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Microsoft Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500) Professional Certificate
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Microsoft Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500) Professional Certificate

Build a career in Microsoft Azure security. Advance your skills to be job-ready as an Azure security engineer associate. Prepare for the AZ-500: Microsoft Azure Security Technologies certification exam.

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Instructor: Microsoft

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Professional Certificate - 7 course series

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4.6

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Intermediate level

Recommended experience

6 months at 5 hours a week
Flexible schedule
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What you'll learn

  • Use Azure Active Directory to create and manage users, manage authentication, and implement identity protection and governance.

  • Implement perimeter, network, host, and container security and services such as Azure Key Vault to secure the platform and applications.

  • Secure data by implementing storage security, data sovereignty, database monitoring, encryption, & data masking using tools like Defender for Cloud.

  • Manage security operations with Microsoft Defender and use monitoring tools such as Azure Resource Monitor and Azure Monitor Application Insights.

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Intermediate level

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6 months at 5 hours a week
Flexible schedule
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Secure Access with Azure Active Directory

Course 112 hours4.4 (23 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Explain the features of Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) and Azure AD Domain Services

  • Create and manage users and groups in cloud and hybrid contexts and configure Azure AD administrative units

  • Describe the authentication and password protection methods available in Azure AD and how to configure and implement multifactor authentication

  • Deploy and configure Azure AD Connect to create a hybrid identity solution

Skills you'll gain

Category: Azure Kubernetes Service
Category: Network security group
Category: Web application firewall
Category: Front Door and Application Gateway
Category: Azure Firewall

What you'll learn

  • Explain the features of Azure AD Identity Protection.

  • Explain how to configure Azure ADPIM and work with Azure AD groups and guests.

  • Implement and configure Azure policies and RBAC in Azure.

  • Enable resource locks and deploy blueprints in Azure.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
Category: Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Category: azure key vault
Category: Azure Monitor
Category: Azure AD

What you'll learn

  • Describe defense in depth.

  • Review core security concepts and approaches that form part of the defense in depth strategy.

  • Implement and configure an Azure Application Gateway to protect your perimeter.

  • Configure and deploy the Azure Web Application Firewall.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Azure SQL security
Category: Storage encryption
Category: Azure files security
Category: Azure AD RBAC
Category: storage account

Secure Your Applications

Course 413 hours

What you'll learn

  • Describe the purpose of Azure Key Vault and its importance in defense in depth strategy

  • Deploy and manage Key Vault certificates, secrets, and keys to secure access to your applications

  • Explain app registration, types of permissions supported by the Microsoft identity platform and create an Azure AD tenant.

  • Configure Microsoft Graph permissions and web app certificates

Skills you'll gain

Category: Azure Active Directory Connect
Category: Azure Active Directory administrative units
Category: Azure Active Directory Domain Services
Category: Multi-Factor Authentication
Category: Azure Active Directory

Secure Your Data at Rest

Course 516 hours

What you'll learn

  • Deploy shared access signatures (SAS).

  • Enable and monitor database auditing.

  • Enable Defender for SQL for advanced threat protection.

  • Deploy an Always Encrypted implementation.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Category: Microsoft Defender for Servers
Category: Azure Monitor
Category: Log Analytics Workspace
Category: Microsoft Sentinel

Manage Security Operations

Course 617 hours

What you'll learn

  • Configure and monitor metrics and logs in Azure Monitor.

  • Manage applications by using Azure Monitor Application Insights.

  • Implement, configure, and deploy Microsoft Defender for Cloud.

  • Implement just-in-time VPN access to protect against brute-force attacks.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Microsoft Graph
Category: azure key vault
Category: Azure AD application registration
Category: Microsoft identity platform
Category: Managed identities

What you'll learn

  • Implement multifactor authentication.

  • Create a resource group and a new storage account and provide access to a user.

  • Create a strategy for implementing Azure security using security groups.

  • Set up a virtual machine (VM) to host a website, allowing only HTTP and HTTPS traffic.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Conditional access policies
Category: Azure AD Privileged Identity Management
Category: Azure role-based access control
Category: Azure blueprint
Category: Azure AD identity protection

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Microsoft
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