Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect (SC-100T00)

This is an advanced, expert-level course. Although not required to attend, students are strongly encouraged to have taken and passed another associate level certification in the security, compliance and identity portfolio (such as AZ-500, SC-200 or SC-300) before attending this class. This course prepares students with the expertise to design and evaluate cybersecurity strategies in the following areas: Zero Trust, Governance Risk Compliance (GRC), security operations (SecOps), and data and applications. Students will also learn how to design and architect solutions using zero trust principles and specify security requirements for cloud infrastructure in different service models (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS).

Module 1: Build an overall security strategy and architecture

• Develop Integration points in an architecture
• Develop security requirements based on business goals
• Translate security requirements into technical capabilities
• Design security for a resiliency strategy
• Design security strategy for hybrid and multi-tenant environments
• Design technical and governance strategies for traffic filtering and segmentation

Module 2: Design a security operations strategy

• Design a logging and auditing security strategy.
• Develop security operations for hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
• Design a strategy for Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR).
• Evaluate security workflows.
• Review security strategies for incident management.
• Evaluate security operations for technical threat intelligence.
• Monitor sources for insights on threats and mitigations.

Module 3: Design an identity security strategy

• Recommend an identity store for security.
• Recommend secure authentication and security authorization strategies.
• Secure conditional access.
• Design a strategy for role assignment and delegation.
• Define Identity governance for access reviews and entitlement management.
• Design a security strategy for privileged role access to infrastructure.
• Design a security strategy for privileged access.

Module 4: Evaluate a regulatory compliance strategy

• Interpret compliance requirements and their technical capabilities.
• Evaluate infrastructure compliance by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
• Interpret compliance scores and recommend actions to resolve issues or improve security.
• Design and validate implementation of Azure Policy.
• Design for data residency Requirements.
• Translate privacy requirements into requirements for security solutions.

Module 5: Evaluate security posture and recommend technical strategies to manage risk

• Evaluate security postures by using benchmarks.
• Evaluate security postures by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
• Evaluate security postures by using Secure Scores.
• Evaluate security hygiene of Cloud Workloads.
• Design security for an Azure Landing Zone.
• Interpret technical threat intelligence and recommend risk mitigations.
• Recommend security capabilities or controls to mitigate identified risks.

Module 6: Understand architecture best practices and how they are changing with the Cloud

• Plan and implement a security strategy across teams.
• Establish a strategy and process for proactive and continuous evolution of a security strategy.

Module 7: Design a strategy for securing server and client endpoints

• Design a logging and auditing security strategy.
• Develop security operations for hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
• Design a strategy for Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR).
• Evaluate security workflows.
• Review security strategies for incident management.
• Evaluate security operations for technical threat intelligence.
• Monitor sources for insights on threats and mitigations.

Module 8: Design a strategy for securing PaaS, IaaS, and SaaS services

• Specify security baselines for SaaS, PaaS and IaaS services.
• Specify security requirements for web, storage, data and IoT workloads.
• Specify security requirements for containers and container orchestration.

Module 9: Specify security requirements for applications

• Specify priorities for mitigating threats to applications.
• Specify a security standard for onboarding a new application.
• Specify a security strategy for applications and APIs.

Module 10: Design a strategy for securing data

• Specify priorities for mitigating threats to data.
• Design a strategy to identify and protect sensitive data.
• Specify an encryption standard for data at rest and in motion.

Module 11: Recommend security best practices using Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architectures (MCRA) and Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmarks

• Use the Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architecture (MCRA) to recommend security best practices
• Use Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmarks to recommend security best practices
• Use the Zero Trust Rapid Modernization Plan (RaMP) to recommend a strategy for updating organizational security

Module 12: Recommend a secure methodology using the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)

• Recommend a DevSecOps process
• Recommend a methodology for asset protection
• Recommend strategies for managing and minimizing risk

Module 13: Recommend a ransomware strategy by using Microsoft Security Best Practices

• Recognize different types of ransomware
• Help an organization mitigate risk of a ransomware attack by creating a recovery plan
• Help an organization mitigate risk of a ransomware attack by limiting the scope of damage
• Help an organization mitigate risk of a ransomware attack by hardening key infrastructure elements

Before attending this course, students must have:

• Highly recommended to have attended and passed one of the associate level certifications in the security, compliance and identity portfolio (such as AZ-500, SC-200 or SC-300)
• Advanced experience and knowledge in identity and access, platform protection, security operations, securing data and securing applications.
• Experience with hybrid and cloud implementations.

This course is for experienced cloud security engineers who have taken a previous certification in the security, compliance and identity portfolio. Specifically, students should have advanced experience and knowledge in a wide range of security engineering areas, including identity and access, platform protection, security operations, securing data, and securing applications. They should also have experience with hybrid and cloud implementations. Beginning students should instead take the course SC-900: Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals.