Security, Compliance and Identity training and certifications

Microsoft Certified: Security Operations Analyst Associate

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 Azure Sentinel, Azure Defender, 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.

Knowledge and experience:

Candidates for this course should have foundational knowledge of Microsoft 365 and Azure. They should be familiar with cybersecurity threat mitigation and response concepts.

Skills measured:

After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Mitigate threats using Microsoft 365 Defender
• Mitigate threats using Azure Defender
• Mitigate threats using Azure Sentinel

Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate

The Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator designs, implements, and operates an organization’s identity and access management systems by using Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). They manage tasks such as providing secure authentication and authorization access to enterprise applications. The administrator provides seamless experiences and self-service management capabilities for all users. Adaptive access and governance are core elements to the role. This role is also responsible for troubleshooting, monitoring, and reporting for the identity and access environment.

The Identity and Access Administrator may be a single individual or a member of a larger team. This role collaborates with many other roles in the organization to drive strategic identity projects to modernize identity solutions, to implement hybrid identity solutions, and to implement identity governance.

Knowledge and experience:

A candidate for this course should have previous knowledge of Azure Active Directory, either on-premises or in the cloud.  An understanding of security concepts like Zero Trusty and Least Access Privilege are a plus.  Candidates should have strong familiarity with Microsoft cloud capabilities, products, and services.

Skills measured:

After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Implement an Identity Management Solution
• Implement an Authentication and Access Management Solution
• Implement Access Management for Apps
• Plan and Implement an Identity Governance Strategy

Microsoft Certified: Information Protection Administrator Associate

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.

Knowledge and experience:

A candidate for this course should have a foundational knowledge of Microsoft security and compliance technologies, as well as basic knowledge of information protection concepts.

Skills measured:

After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Implement Information Protection
• Implement Data Loss Prevention
• Implement Information Governance