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SC-400: Microsoft Information Protection Administrator

By Della Wyler
Thursday, April 8th, 2021

Learn how to protect information in your Microsoft 365 deployment. This course focuses on data governance and information protection within your organization. The 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. The course helps learners prepare for the Microsoft Information Protection Administrator exam (SC-400).

Audience Profile

The Information Protection Administrator plans and implements controls that meet organizational compliance needs. This person is responsible for translating requirements and compliance controls into technical implementation. They assist organizational control owners to become and stay compliant. They work with information technology (IT) personnel, business application owners, human resources, and legal stakeholders to implement technology that supports policies and controls necessary to sufficiently address regulatory requirements for their organization. They also work with the compliance and security leadership such as a Chief Compliance Officer and Security Officer to evaluate the full breadth of associated enterprise risk and partner to develop those policies. This person defines applicable requirements and tests IT processes and operations against those policies and controls. They are responsible for creating policies and rules for content classification, data loss prevention, governance, and protection.

Job role: Administrator

Preparation for exam: SC-400

Features: none

Skills gained

  • Explain and use sensitivity labels.
  • Configure Data Loss Prevention policies.
  • Secure messages in Office 365.
  • Describe the information governance configuration process.
  • Define key terms associated with Microsoft’s information protection and governance solutions.
  • Explain the Content explorer and Activity explorer.
  • Describe how to use sensitive information types and trainable classifiers.
  • Review and analyze DLP reports.
  • Identify and mitigate DLP policy violations.
  • Describe the integration of DLP with Microsoft Cloud App Security (MCAS).
  • Deploy Endpoint DLP
  • Describe records management
  • Configure event driven retention
  • Import a file plan
  • Configure retention policies and labels
  • Create custom keyword dictionaries
  • Implement document fingerprinting

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, students should have:

  • Foundational knowledge of Microsoft security and compliance technologies.
  • Basic knowledge of information protection concepts.
  • Understanding of cloud computing concepts.
  • Understanding of Microsoft 365 products and services.

 

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SC-200: Microsoft Security Operations Analyst

By Della Wyler
Thursday, April 8th, 2021

Learn how to investigate, respond to, and hunt for threats using Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and Microsoft 365 Defender. In this 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. The course was designed for people who work in a Security Operations job role and helps learners prepare for the exam SC-200: Microsoft Security Operations Analyst.

Audience Profile

The Microsoft Security Operations Analyst collaborates with organizational stakeholders to secure information technology systems for the organization. Their goal is to reduce organizational risk by rapidly remediating active attacks in the environment, advising on improvements to threat protection practices, and referring violations of organizational policies to appropriate stakeholders. Responsibilities include threat management, monitoring, and response by using a variety of security solutions across their environment. The role primarily investigates, responds to, and hunts for threats using Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft 365 Defender, and third-party security products. Since the Security Operations Analyst consumes the operational output of these tools, they are also a critical stakeholder in the configuration and deployment of these technologies.

Job role: Security Engineer

Preparation for exam: SC-200

Features: none

Skills gained

  • Explain how Microsoft Defender for Endpoint can remediate risks in your environment
  • Administer a Microsoft Defender for Endpoint environment
  • Configure Attack Surface Reduction rules on Windows devices
  • Perform actions on a device using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
  • Investigate domains and IP addresses in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
  • Investigate user accounts in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
  • Configure alert settings in Microsoft 365 Defender
  • Explain how the threat landscape is evolving
  • Conduct advanced hunting in Microsoft 365 Defender
  • Manage incidents in Microsoft 365 Defender
  • Explain how Microsoft Defender for Identity can remediate risks in your environment
  • Investigate DLP alerts in Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
  • Explain the types of actions you can take on an insider risk management case
  • Configure auto-provisioning in Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
  • Remediate alerts in Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
  • Construct KQL statements
  • Filter searches based on event time, severity, domain, and other relevant data using KQL
  • Extract data from unstructured string fields using KQL
  • Manage a Microsoft Sentinel workspace
  • Use KQL to access the watchlist in Microsoft Sentinel
  • Manage threat indicators in Microsoft Sentinel
  • Explain the Common Event Format and Syslog connector differences in Microsoft Sentinel
  • Connect Azure Windows Virtual Machines to Microsoft Sentinel
  • Configure Log Analytics agent to collect Sysmon events
  • Create new analytics rules and queries using the analytics rule wizard
  • Create a playbook to automate an incident response
  • Use queries to hunt for threats
  • Observe threats over time with livestream

Prerequisites

  • Basic understanding of Microsoft 365
  • Fundamental understanding of Microsoft security, compliance, and identity products
  • Intermediate understanding of Windows 10
  • Familiarity with Azure services, specifically Azure SQL Database and Azure Storage
  • Familiarity with Azure virtual machines and virtual networking
  • Basic understanding of scripting concepts.

 

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CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+) Certification On-Demand

By Della Wyler
Friday, February 19th, 2021

About On-Demand Learning

TechSherpas 365’s On-Demand courses provide you with access to official courseware materials and hands-on labs, empowering you to learn at your own pace. On-Demand allows you to design your training around your schedule, budget, and individual learning needs.

On-Demand Learning is a perfect solution for students who are unable to attend traditional instructor-led training due to schedule constraints. You receive the same materials and labs as an instructor-led course, with the added convenience of flexible scheduling and a lower price tag.

This On-Demand Course Includes:

  • Official Courseware License with Lifetime Access (and automatic version updates)
  • Access to Hands-on Labs
  • Access to 3 hours of Instructor Time (upon request):
    • One-on-one live instructor time geared towards your specific needs
    • Scheduled in 1-hour increments

The course introduces tools and tactics to manage cybersecurity risks, identify various types of common threats, evaluate the organization’s security, collect and analyze cybersecurity intelligence, and handle incidents as they occur.

Pre-requisite(s):

CompTIA Security+ Certification

Audience:

This course is designed primarily for cybersecurity practitioners who perform job functions related to protecting information systems by ensuring their availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality, and non-repudiation. This course focuses on the knowledge, ability, and skills necessary to provide for the defense of those information systems in a cybersecurity context, including protection, detection, analysis, investigation, and response processes. In addition, the course ensures that all members of an IT team—everyone from help desk staff to the Chief Information Officer—understand their role in these security processes.

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SCOR: Implementing & Operating Cisco Security Core Technologies On-Demand

By Della Wyler
Friday, February 19th, 2021

About On-Demand Learning

TechSherpas 365’s On-Demand courses provide you with access to official courseware materials and hands-on labs, empowering you to learn at your own pace. On-Demand allows you to design your training around your schedule, budget, and individual learning needs.

On-Demand Learning is a perfect solution for students who are unable to attend traditional instructor-led training due to schedule constraints. You receive the same materials and labs as an instructor-led course, with the added convenience of flexible scheduling and a lower price tag.

This On-Demand Course Includes:

  • Official Courseware License with Lifetime Access (and automatic version updates)
  • Access to Hands-on Labs
  • Access to 3 hours of Instructor Time (upon request):
    • One-on-one live instructor time geared towards your specific needs
    • Scheduled in 1-hour increments

In this course, Implementing and Operating Cisco Security Core Technologies (SCOR), students will master the skills and technologies needed to implement core Cisco security solutions to provide advanced threat protection against cybersecurity attacks. Students will learn security for networks, cloud and content, endpoint protection, secure network access, visibility and enforcements. They will get extensive hands-on experience deploying Cisco Firepower Next-Generation Firewall and Cisco ASA Firewall; configuring access control policies, mail policies, and 802.1X Authentication; and more. Students will also get introductory practice on Cisco Stealthwatch Enterprise and Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud threat detection features.

This course will help you prepare to take the Implementing and Operating Cisco Security Core Technologies (350-701 SCOR) exam. It also helps you prepare for the CCNP Security and CCIE Security certifications and for senior-level security roles featuring Cisco security solutions.

Prerequisites

The knowledge and skills that the learner should have before attending this course are as follows:

  • Skills and knowledge equivalent to those learned in Implementing and Administering Cisco Solutions (CCNA) v1.0 course
  • Familiarity with Ethernet and TCP/IP networking
  • Working knowledge of the Windows operating system
  • Working knowledge of Cisco IOS networking and concepts
  • Familiarity with basics of networking security concepts

Course Objectives

Upon completing this course, the learner will be able to meet these overall objectives:

  • Describe information security concepts and strategies within the network
  • Describe common TCP/IP, network application, and endpoint attacks
  • Describe how various network security technologies work together to guard against attacks
  • Implement access control on Cisco ASA appliance and Cisco Firepower Next-Generation Firewall
  • Describe and implement basic email content security features and functions provided by Cisco Email Security Appliance
  • Describe and implement web content security features and functions provided by Cisco Web Security Appliance
  • Describe Cisco Umbrella security capabilities, deployment models, policy management, and Investigate console
  • Introduce VPNs and describe cryptography solutions and algorithms
  • Describe Cisco secure site-to-site connectivity solutions and explain how to deploy Cisco IOS VTI-based point-to-point IPsec VPNs, and point-to-point IPsec VPN on the Cisco ASA and Cisco FirePower NGFW
  • Describe and deploy Cisco secure remote access connectivity solutions and describe how to configure 802.1X and EAP authentication
  • Provide basic understanding of endpoint security and describe AMP for Endpoints architecture and basic features
  • Examine various defenses on Cisco devices that protect the control and management plane
  • Configure and verify Cisco IOS Software Layer 2 and Layer 3 Data Plane Controls
  • Describe Cisco Stealthwatch Enterprise and Stealthwatch Cloud solutions
  • Describe basics of cloud computing and common cloud attacks and how to secure cloud environment

Who Should Attend?

The primary audience for this course is as follows:

  • Security Engineer
  • Network Engineer
  • Network Designer
  • Network Administrator
  • Systems Engineer
  • Consulting Systems Engineer
  • Technical Solutions Architect
  • Cisco Integrators/Partners
  • Network Manager
  • Cisco integrators and partners
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MS-500: Microsoft 365 Security Administration On-Demand

By Della Wyler
Friday, February 19th, 2021

About On-Demand Learning

TechSherpas 365’s On-Demand courses provide you with access to Microsoft official courseware materials and hands-on labs, empowering you to learn at your own pace. On-Demand allows you to design your training around your schedule, budget, and individual learning needs.

On-Demand Learning is a perfect solution for students who are unable to attend traditional instructor-led training due to schedule constraints. You receive the same materials and labs as an instructor-led course, with the added convenience of flexible scheduling and a lower price tag.

This On-Demand Course Includes:

  • Microsoft Official Courseware License with Lifetime Access (and automatic version updates)
  • Access to Hands-on Labs for 180 days
  • Access to 3 hours of Instructor Time (upon request):
    • One-on-one live instructor time geared towards your specific needs
    • Scheduled in 1-hour increments

About This Course

In this course you will learn how to secure user access to your organization’s resources. The course covers user password protection, multi-factor authentication, how to enable Azure Identity Protection, how to setup and use Azure AD Connect, and introduces you to conditional access in Microsoft 365. You will learn about threat protection technologies that help protect your Microsoft 365 environment. Specifically, you will learn about threat vectors and Microsoft’s security solutions to mitigate threats. You will learn about Secure Score, Exchange Online protection, Azure Advanced Threat Protection, Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection, and threat management. In the course you will learn about information protection technologies that help secure your Microsoft 365 environment. The course discusses information rights managed content, message encryption, as well as labels, policies and rules that support data loss prevention and information protection. Lastly, you will learn about archiving and retention in Microsoft 365 as well as data governance and how to conduct content searches and investigations. This course covers data retention policies and tags, in-place records management for SharePoint, email retention, and how to conduct content searches that support eDiscovery investigations.

Audience Profile

The Microsoft 365 Security administrator collaborates with the Microsoft 365 Enterprise Administrator, business stakeholders and other workload administrators to plan and implement security strategies and to ensures that the solutions comply with the policies and regulations of the organization. This role proactively secures Microsoft 365 enterprise environments. Responsibilities include responding to threats, implementing, managing and monitoring security and compliance solutions for the Microsoft 365 environment. They respond to incidents, investigations and enforcement of data governance. The Microsoft 365 Security administrator is familiar with Microsoft 365 workloads and hybrid environments. This role has strong skills and experience with identity protection, information protection, threat protection, security management and data governance.

Job role: Administrator

Preparation for exam: MS-500

Features: none

Skills gained

  • Administer user and group access in Microsoft 365.
  • Explain and manage Azure Identity Protection.
  • Plan and implement Azure AD Connect.
  • Manage synchronized user identities.
  • Explain and use conditional access.
  • Describe cyber-attack threat vectors.
  • Explain security solutions for Microsoft 365.
  • Use Microsoft Secure Score to evaluate and improve your security posture.
  • Configure various advanced threat protection services for Microsoft 365.
  • Plan for and deploy secure mobile devices.
  • Implement information rights management.
  • Secure messages in Office 365.
  • Configure Data Loss Prevention policies.
  • Deploy and manage Cloud App Security.
  • Implement Windows information protection for devices.
  • Plan and deploy a data archiving and retention system.
  • Create and manage an eDiscovery investigation.
  • Manage GDPR data subject requests.
  • Explain and use sensitivity labels.

Prerequisites

Learners should start this course already having the following skills:

  • Basic conceptual understanding of Microsoft Azure.
  • Experience with Windows 10 devices.
  • Experience with Office 365.
  • Basic understanding of authorization and authentication.
  • Basic understanding of computer networks.
  • Working knowledge of managing mobile devices.

 

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MS-101: Microsoft 365 Mobility and Security On-Demand

By Della Wyler
Friday, February 19th, 2021

About On-Demand Learning

TechSherpas 365’s On-Demand courses provide you with access to Microsoft official courseware materials and hands-on labs, empowering you to learn at your own pace. On-Demand allows you to design your training around your schedule, budget, and individual learning needs.

On-Demand Learning is a perfect solution for students who are unable to attend traditional instructor-led training due to schedule constraints. You receive the same materials and labs as an instructor-led course, with the added convenience of flexible scheduling and a lower price tag.

This On-Demand Course Includes:

  • Microsoft Official Courseware License with Lifetime Access (and automatic version updates)
  • Access to Hands-on Labs for 180 days
  • Access to 3 hours of Instructor Time (upon request):
    • One-on-one live instructor time geared towards your specific needs
    • Scheduled in 1-hour increments

This course covers three central elements of Microsoft 365 enterprise administration – Microsoft 365 security management, Microsoft 365 compliance management, and Microsoft 365 device management. In Microsoft 365 security management, you will examine all the common types of threat vectors and data breaches facing organizations today, and you will learn how Microsoft 365’s security solutions address these security threats. You will be introduced to the Microsoft Secure Score, as well as to Azure Active Directory Identity Protection. You will then learn how to manage the Microsoft 365 security services, including Exchange Online Protection, Advanced Threat Protection, Safe Attachments, and Safe Links. Finally, you will be introduced to the various reports that monitor your security health. You will then transition from security services to threat intelligence; specifically, using the Security Dashboard and Advanced Threat Analytics to stay ahead of potential security breaches. With your Microsoft 365 security components now firmly in place, you will examine the key components of Microsoft 365 compliance management. This begins with an overview of all key aspects of data governance, including data archiving and retention, Information Rights Management, Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (S/MIME), Office 365 message encryption, and data loss prevention (DLP). You will then delve deeper into archiving and retention, paying particular attention to in-place records management in SharePoint, archiving and retention in Exchange, and Retention policies in the Security and Compliance Center. Now that you understand the key aspects of data governance, you will examine how to implement them, including the building of ethical walls in Exchange Online, creating DLP policies from built-in templates, creating custom DLP policies, creating DLP policies to protect documents, and creating policy tips. You will then focus on managing data governance in Microsoft 365, including managing retention in email, troubleshooting retention policies and policy tips that fail, as well as troubleshooting sensitive data. You will then learn how to implement Azure Information Protection and Windows Information Protection. You will conclude this section by learning how to manage search and investigation, including searching for content in the Security and Compliance Center, auditing log investigations, and managing advanced eDiscovery. The course concludes with an in-depth examination of Microsoft 365 device management. You will begin by planning for various aspects of device management, including preparing your Windows 10 devices for co-management. You will learn how to transition from Configuration Manager to Intune, and you will be introduced to the Microsoft Store for Business and Mobile Application Management. At this point, you will transition from planning to implementing device management; specifically, your Windows 10 deployment strategy. This includes learning how to implement Windows Autopilot, Windows Analytics, and Mobile Device Management (MDM). When examining MDM, you will learn how to deploy it, how to enroll devices to MDM, and how to manage device compliance.

Audience Profile

This course is designed for persons who are aspiring to the Microsoft 365 Enterprise Admin role and have completed one of the Microsoft 365 role-based administrator certification paths.

Job role: Administrator

Preparation for exam: MS-101

Features: none

Skills gained

  • Microsoft 365 Security Metrics
  • Microsoft 365 Security Services
  • Microsoft 365 Threat Intelligence
  • Data Governance in Microsoft 365
  • Data Governance in Microsoft 365 Intelligence
  • Search and Investigations
  • Device Management
  • Windows 10 Deployment Strategies
  • Mobile Device Management

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, students must have:

  • Completed a role-based administrator course such as Messaging, Teamwork, Security and Compliance, or Collaboration.
  • A proficient understanding of DNS and basic functional experience with Microsoft 365 services.
  • A proficient understanding of general IT practices.

 

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Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) On-Demand

By Della Wyler
Friday, February 19th, 2021

About On-Demand Learning

TechSherpas 365’s On-Demand courses provide you with access to official courseware materials and hands-on labs, empowering you to learn at your own pace. On-Demand allows you to design your training around your schedule, budget, and individual learning needs.

On-Demand Learning is a perfect solution for students who are unable to attend traditional instructor-led training due to schedule constraints. You receive the same materials and labs as an instructor-led course, with the added convenience of flexible scheduling and a lower price tag.

This On-Demand Course Includes:

  • Official Courseware License with Lifetime Access (and automatic version updates)
  • Access to Hands-on Labs
  • Access to 3 hours of Instructor Time (upon request):
    • One-on-one live instructor time geared towards your specific needs
    • Scheduled in 1-hour increments

In this course, you’ll cover all four domains of the ISACA Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) exam and gain the knowledge and concepts required to obtain CRISC certification. Since its inception in 2010, the CRISC certification is designed for IT and business professionals who identify and manage risks through the development, implementation, and maintenance of appropriate information systems (IS) controls.

About the exam

The ISACA Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) exam verifies that the candidate possesses the fundamental knowledge and proven skills in the area of ISACA Risk and Information Systems Control.

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AZ-500: Microsoft Azure Security Technologies On-Demand

By Della Wyler
Friday, February 19th, 2021

About On-Demand Learning

TechSherpas 365’s On-Demand courses provide you with access to Microsoft official courseware materials and hands-on labs, empowering you to learn at your own pace. On-Demand allows you to design your training around your schedule, budget, and individual learning needs.

On-Demand Learning is a perfect solution for students who are unable to attend traditional instructor-led training due to schedule constraints. You receive the same materials and labs as an instructor-led course, with the added convenience of flexible scheduling and a lower price tag.

This On-Demand Course Includes:

  • Microsoft Official Courseware License with Lifetime Access (and automatic version updates)
  • Access to Hands-on Labs for 180 days
  • Access to 3 hours of Instructor Time (upon request):
    • One-on-one live instructor time geared towards your specific needs
    • Scheduled in 1-hour increments

This 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. This course includes security for identity and access, platform protection, data and applications, and security operations.

Audience Profile

This course is for Azure Security Engineers who are planning to take the associated certification exam, or who are performing security tasks in their day-to-day job. This course would also be helpful to an engineer that wants to specialize in providing security for Azure-based digital platforms and play an integral role in protecting an organization’s data.

Job role: Security Engineer

Preparation for exam: AZ-500

Features: none

Skills gained

  • Implement enterprise governance strategies including role-based access control, Azure policies, and resource locks.
  • Implement an Azure AD infrastructure including users, groups, and multi-factor authentication.
  • Implement Azure AD Identity Protection including risk policies, conditional access, and access reviews.
  • Implement Azure AD Privileged Identity Management including Azure AD roles and Azure resources.
  • Implement Azure AD Connect including authentication methods and on-premises directory synchronization.
  • Implement perimeter security strategies including Azure Firewall.
  • Implement network security strategies including Network Security Groups and Application Security Groups.
  • Implement host security strategies including endpoint protection, remote access management, update management, and disk encryption.
  • Implement container security strategies including Azure Container Instances, Azure Container Registry, and Azure Kubernetes.
  • Implement Azure Key Vault including certificates, keys, and secretes.
  • Implement application security strategies including app registration, managed identities, and service endpoints.
  • Implement storage security strategies including shared access signatures, blob retention policies, and Azure Files authentication.
  • Implement database security strategies including authentication, data classification, dynamic data masking, and always encrypted.
  • Implement Azure Monitor including connected sources, log analytics, and alerts.
  • Implement Azure Security Center including policies, recommendations, and just in time virtual machine access.
  • Implement Azure Sentinel including workbooks, incidents, and playbooks.

Prerequisites

Successful learners will have prior knowledge and understanding of:

  • Security best practices and industry security requirements such as defense in

depth, least privileged access, role-based access control, multi-factor authentication,

shared responsibility, and zero trust model.

  • Be familiar with security protocols such as Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Internet

Security Protocol (IPSec), Secure Socket Layer (SSL), disk and data encryption methods.

  • Have some experience deploying Azure workloads. This course does not cover the basics

of Azure administration, instead the course content builds on that knowledge by adding

security specific information.

  • Have experience with Windows and Linux operating systems and scripting languages.

Course labs may use PowerShell and the CLI.

Prerequisite courses (or equivalent knowledge and hands-on experience):

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CISSP – A Certification for Cybersecurity Leaders

By Della Wyler
Monday, November 2nd, 2020

Looking to Excel Your Career with More Opportunities? Do you want one of the most globally recognized certifications for information security professionals? If the answer is yes, then the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) is the cybersecurity certification for you. The typical candidate for CISSP certification has at least 5 years of recent full-time […]

Categories : Careers in IT, IT Certifications, IT Security

CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor

By Della Wyler
Tuesday, October 27th, 2020

An ISACA Certified Information Systems Auditor is recognized as one of the leading authorities in the areas of IS auditing, control, and information security. This CISA training course provides you with in-depth coverage of the five CISA domains that are covered on the CISA exam. These domains include auditing information systems; IT governance and management; information systems acquisition, development, and implementation; information systems operations, maintenance, and support; and protection of information assets.

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