Learn how to investigate, respond to, and hunt for threats using Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender XDR and Microsoft Defender for Cloud. 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.
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Course Outline
1. Introduction to Microsoft Defender XDR threat protection
• Explore Extended Detection & Response (XDR) response use cases
• Understand Microsoft Defender XDR in a Security Operations Center (SOC)
• Explore Microsoft Security Graph
• Investigate security incidents in Microsoft Defender XDR
2. Mitigate incidents using Microsoft Defender
• Use the Microsoft Defender portal
• Manage incidents
• Investigate incidents
• Manage and investigate alerts
• Manage automated investigations
• Use the action center
• Explore advanced hunting
• Investigate Microsoft Entra sign-in logs
• Understand Microsoft Secure Score
• Analyze threat analytics with the Security Copilot Threat Intelligence Briefing Agent
• Analyze reports
• Configure the Microsoft Defender portal
3. Remediate threats using Microsoft Defender
• Introduction to Microsoft Defender for Office 365
• Automate, investigate, and remediate
• Configure, protect, and detect
• Microsoft Security Copilot Phishing Triage Agent in Microsoft Defender
• Simulate attacks
4. Manage Microsoft Entra Identity Protection
• Review identity protection basics
• Implement and manage user risk policy
• Monitor, investigate, and remediate elevated risky users
• Implement security for workload identities
• Explore Microsoft Defender for Identity
• Explore the Identity Risk Management Agent
5. Safeguard your environment with Microsoft Defender for Identity
• Introduction to Microsoft Defender for Identity
• Configure Microsoft Defender for Identity sensors
• Review compromised accounts or data
• Integrate with other Microsoft tools
6. Secure your cloud apps and services with Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
• Understand the Defender for Cloud Apps Framework
• Explore your cloud apps with Cloud Discovery
• Protect your data and apps with Conditional Access App Control
• Walk through discovery and access control with Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
• Classify and protect sensitive information
• Detect Threats
7. Introduction to generative AI and agents
• Large language models (LLMs)
• Prompts
• AI agents
8. Describe Microsoft Security Copilot
• Get acquainted with Microsoft Security Copilot
• Describe Microsoft Security Copilot terminology
• Describe how Microsoft Security Copilot processes prompt requests
• Describe the elements of an effective prompt
• Describe how to enable Microsoft Security Copilot
9. Describe the core features of Microsoft Security Copilot
• Describe the features available in the standalone experience of Microsoft Security Copilot
• Describe the features available in a session of the standalone experience
• Describe workspaces
• Describe Security Copilot plugins
• Describe custom promptbooks
• Describe knowledge base connections
10. Describe the embedded experiences of Microsoft Security Copilot
• Describe Copilot in Microsoft Defender XDR
• Copilot in Microsoft Purview
• Copilot in Microsoft Entra
• Copilot in Microsoft Intune
• Copilot in Microsoft Defender for Cloud
11. Experience Security Copilot through guided simulations
• Explore owner settings in Security Copilot
• Use prompts and promptbooks in Security Copilot
• Create a custom promptbook in Security Copilot
• Investigate data protection activity in Microsoft Purview
• Investigate insider risks and compliance in Microsoft Purview
• Investigate security incidents in Microsoft Defender XDR
• Explore and create an agent in Security Copilot
• Explore the Conditional Access Optimization Agent
12. Investigate and respond to Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention alerts
• Understand data loss prevention (DLP) alerts
• Understand the DLP alert lifecycle
• Configure DLP policies to generate alerts
• Investigate DLP alerts in Microsoft Purview
• Investigate DLP alerts in Microsoft Defender XDR
• Investigate DLP alerts with Security Copilot and AI agents
• Respond to DLP alerts
13. Investigate insider risk alerts and related activity
• Understand insider risk alerts and investigations
• Manage alert volume in insider risk management
• Investigate and triage risk alerts in Microsoft Purview
• Investigate insider risk alerts with Security Copilot and AI agents
• Analyze alert context with the All risk factors tab
• Investigate activity details with the Activity explorer tab
• Review patterns over time with the User activity tab
• Investigate insider risk alerts in Microsoft Defender XDR
• Manage and take action on insider risk cases
14. Conduct investigations with Microsoft Purview Audit
• Understand how Microsoft Purview Audit works
• Configure and manage Microsoft Purview Audit
• Configure audit retention with Audit (Premium)
• Run audit searches with Audit (Standard)
• Investigate activities with Audit (Premium)
• Search for Copilot and AI app activities
• Analyze and report on audit results
15. Search for content with Microsoft Purview eDiscovery
• Understand eDiscovery and content search capabilities
• Prerequisites for using eDiscovery in Microsoft Purview
• Create an eDiscovery search
• Conduct an eDiscovery search
• Export eDiscovery search results
16. Protect against threats with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
• Introduction to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
• Practice security administration
• Hunt threats within your network
17. Deploy the Microsoft Defender for Endpoint environment
• Create your environment
• Understand operating systems compatibility and features
• Onboard devices
• Manage access
• Create and manage roles for role-based access control
• Configure device groups
• Configure environment advanced features
18. Implement Windows security enhancements with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
• Understand attack surface reduction
• Enable attack surface reduction rules
19. Perform device investigations in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
• Use the device inventory list
• Investigate the device
• Use behavioral blocking
• Detect devices with device discovery
20. Perform actions on a device using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
• Explain device actions
• Run Microsoft Defender antivirus scan on devices
• Collect investigation package from devices
• Initiate live response session
21. Perform evidence and entities investigations using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
• Investigate a file
• Investigate a user account
• Investigate an IP address
• Investigate a domain
22. Configure and manage automation using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
• Configure advanced features
• Manage automation upload and folder settings
• Configure automated investigation and remediation capabilities
• Block at risk devices
23. Configure for alerts and detections in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
• Configure advanced features
• Configure alert notifications
• Manage alert suppression
• Manage indicators
24. Utilize Vulnerability Management in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
• Understand vulnerability management
• Explore vulnerabilities on your devices
• Manage remediation
25. Plan for cloud workload protections using Microsoft Defender for Cloud
• Explain Microsoft Defender for Cloud
• Describe Microsoft Defender for Cloud workload protections
• Enable Microsoft Defender for Cloud
26. Connect Azure assets to Microsoft Defender for Cloud
• Explore and manage your resources with asset inventory
• Configure auto provisioning
• Manual agent provisioning
27. Connect non-Azure resources to Microsoft Defender for Cloud
• Protect non-Azure resources
• Connect non-Azure machines
• Connect your AWS accounts
• Connect your GCP accounts
28. Manage your cloud security posture management
• Explore Secure Score
• Explore Recommendations
• Measure and enforce regulatory compliance
• Understand Workbooks
29. Explain cloud workload protections in Microsoft Defender for Cloud
• Understand Microsoft Defender for servers
• Understand Microsoft Defender for App Service
• Understand Microsoft Defender for Storage
• Understand Microsoft Defender for SQL
• Understand Microsoft Defender for open-source databases
• Understand Microsoft Defender for Key Vault
• Understand Microsoft Defender for Resource Manager
• Understand Microsoft Defender for DNS
• Understand Microsoft Defender for Containers
• Understand Microsoft Defender additional protections
30. Remediate security alerts using Microsoft Defender for Cloud
• Understand security alerts
• Remediate alerts and automate responses
• Suppress alerts from Defender for Cloud
• Generate threat intelligence reports
• Respond to alerts from Azure resources
31. Construct KQL statements for Microsoft Sentinel
• Understand the Kusto Query Language statement structure
• Use the search operator
• Use the where operator
• Use the let statement
• Use the extend operator
• Use the order by operator
• Use the project operators
32. Analyze query results using KQL
• Use the summarize operator
• Use the summarize operator to filter results
• Use the summarize operator to prepare data
• Use the render operator to create visualizations
33. Build multi-table statements using KQL
• Use the union operator
• Use the join operator
34. Work with data in Microsoft Sentinel using Kusto Query Language
• Extract data from unstructured string fields
• Extract data from structured string data
• Integrate external data
• Create parsers with functions
35. Introduction to Microsoft Sentinel
• What is Microsoft Sentinel?
• How Microsoft Sentinel works
• When to use Microsoft Sentinel
36. Create and manage Microsoft Sentinel workspaces
• Plan for the Microsoft Sentinel workspace
• Create a Microsoft Sentinel workspace
• Manage workspaces across tenants using Azure Lighthouse
• Understand Microsoft Sentinel permissions and roles
• Manage Microsoft Sentinel settings
• Configure logs
37. Query logs in Microsoft Sentinel
• Query logs in the logs page
• Understand Microsoft Sentinel tables
• Understand common tables
• Understand Microsoft Defender XDR tables
38. Use watchlists in Microsoft Sentinel
• Plan for watchlists
• Create a watchlist
• Manage watchlists
39. Utilize threat intelligence in Microsoft Sentinel
• Define threat intelligence
• Manage your threat indicators
• View your threat indicators with KQL
40. Integrate Microsoft Defender XDR with Microsoft Sentinel
• Understand the benefits of integrating Microsoft Sentinel with Defender XDR
• Explore the capability differences between Microsoft Defender XDR and Microsoft Sentinel portals
• Onboarding Microsoft Sentinel to Microsoft Defender XDR
• Explore Microsoft Sentinel features in Microsoft Defender XDR
41. Connect data to Microsoft Sentinel using data connectors
• Ingest log data with data connectors
• Understand data connector providers
• View connected hosts
42. Connect Microsoft services to Microsoft Sentinel
• Plan for Microsoft services connectors
• Connect the Microsoft 365 connector
• Connect the Microsoft Entra connector
• Connect the Microsoft Entra ID Protection connector
• Connect the Azure Activity connector
43. Connect Microsoft Defender XDR to Microsoft Sentinel
• Plan for Microsoft Defender XDR connectors
• Connect the Microsoft Defender XDR connector
• Connect Microsoft Defender for Cloud connector
• Connect Microsoft Defender for IoT
• Connect Microsoft Defender legacy connectors
44. Connect Windows hosts to Microsoft Sentinel
• Plan for Windows hosts security events connector
• Connect using the Windows Security Events via AMA Connector
• Connect using the Security Events via Legacy Agent Connector
• Collect Sysmon event logs
45. Connect Common Event Format logs to Microsoft Sentinel
• Plan for Common Event Format connector
• Connect your external solution using the Common Event Format connector
46. Connect syslog data sources to Microsoft Sentinel
• Plan for syslog data collection
• Collect data from Linux-based sources using syslog
• Configure the Data Collection Rule for Syslog Data Sources
• Parse syslog data with KQL
47. Connect threat indicators to Microsoft Sentinel
• Plan for threat intelligence connectors
• Connect the Defender Threat Intelligence connector
• Connect the threat intelligence TAXII connector
• Connect the threat intelligence Upload API connector
• View your threat indicators with KQL
48. Threat detection with Microsoft Sentinel analytics
• What is Microsoft Sentinel Analytics?
• Types of analytics rules
• Create an analytics rule from templates
• Create an analytics rule from wizard
• Manage analytics rules
49. Automation in Microsoft Sentinel
• Understand automation options
• Create automation rules
50. Threat response with Microsoft Sentinel playbooks
• What are Microsoft Sentinel playbooks?
• Trigger a playbook in real-time
• Run playbooks on demand
51. Security incident management in Microsoft Sentinel
• Understand incidents
• Incident evidence and entities
• Incident management
52. Identify threats with Behavioral Analytics
• Understand behavioral analytics
• Explore entities
• Display entity behavior information
• Use Anomaly detection analytical rule templates
53. Data normalization in Microsoft Sentinel
• Understand data normalization
• Use ASIM Parsers
• Understand parameterized KQL functions
• Create an ASIM Parser
• Configure Azure Monitor Data Collection Rules
54. Query, visualize, and monitor data in Microsoft Sentinel
• Monitor and visualize data
• Query data using Kusto Query Language
• Use default Microsoft Sentinel Workbooks
• Create a new Microsoft Sentinel Workbook
55. Manage content in Microsoft Sentinel
• Use solutions from the content hub
• Use repositories for deployment
Course Details
• Fundamental understanding of Microsoft security, compliance, and identity products.
• Basic understanding of Microsoft Defender XDR.
• Working knowledge of security operations and incident response.
• Basic understanding of Microsoft 365.
• Intermediate understanding of Microsoft Windows 10 and 11 devices.
• Familiarity with Azure services, specifically Azure SQL Database and Azure Storage.
• Familiarity with Azure virtual machines and virtual networking.
• Foundational knowledge of computer networking.
• Basic understanding of scripting concepts.
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 XDR, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, 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.
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