Microsoft Azure Security Engineer AZ-500 Training Course

What does this training course cover?

• Module 1: Manage identity and access
• Module 2: Implement platform protection
• Module 3: Secure data and applications
• Module 4: Manage security operations

Topics include:

• Enterprise governance strategies, including role-based access control, Azure policies and resource locks.
• Azure AD (Active Directory) infrastructure, including users, groups and multifactor authentication.
• Azure AD Identity Protection, including risk policies, conditional access and access reviews.
• Azure AD Privileged Identity Management, including AD roles and Azure resources.
• Azure AD Connect, including authentication methods and on-premises directory synchronisation.
• Perimeter security strategies, including Azure Firewall.
• Network security strategies, including network security groups and application security groups.
• Host security strategies, including endpoint protection, remote access management, update management and disk encryption.
• Container security strategies including Azure Container Instances, Azure Container Registry and Azure Kubernetes.
• Azure Key Vault, including certificates, keys and secrets.
• Application security strategies, including app registration, managed identities and service endpoints.
• Storage security strategies, including shared access signatures, blob retention policies and Azure Files authentication.
• Database security strategies, including authentication, data classification, dynamic data masking and always encrypted.
• Azure Monitor, including connected sources, log analytics and alerts.
• Azure Security Center, including policies, recommendations and just-in-time virtual machine access.
• Azure Sentinel, including workbooks, incidents and playbooks.

What’s included in this course?

• Complete course materials (digital copy provided as a PDF file).
• An AZ 500: Microsoft Azure Security Technologies exam voucher (Pearson VUE).
• A certificate of attendance.

What equipment do I need?

You will need a laptop for the duration of your course and exam.

Course duration and times

• Day 1: 9:30 am – 5:00 pm
• Day 2: 9:30 am – 5:00 pm
• Day 3: 9:30 am – 5:00 pm
• Day 4: 9:30 am – 5:00 pm

Are there any prerequisites for this course?

We recommend that all attendees have knowledge of:

• Security best practices and industry security requirements such as defence in depth, least privileged access, role-based access control, multifactor authentication, shared responsibility and the zero trust model.
• Security protocols such as Virtual Private Networks, IPsec, SSL, and disk and data encryption methods.
• Experience of deploying Azure workloads.
• Windows and Linux operating systems and scripting languages. Course labs may use PowerShell and the CLI.

This knowledge can be gained by attending the following courses:

• Microsoft Azure Fundamentals AZ-900 Training Course
• Microsoft Azure Administrator AZ-104 Training Course