Security Operations Analyst

Duration: 8 weeks + 4weeks project
Language: English
Level: Intermediate
Delivery Method: Online
Start Date: Jan 11, 2025
End Date: March 30th, 2025
Classes are weekends only

Overview

As a candidate for this course, you’re a Microsoft security operations analyst who reduces organizational risk by:

  • Rapidly remediating active attacks in cloud and on-premises environments.
  • Advising on improvements to threat protection practices.
  • Identifying violations of organizational policies.

As a security operations analyst, you:

  • Perform triage.
  • Respond to incidents.
  • Mitigate risk by using exposure management.
  • Hunt for threats by using threat intelligence.
  • Use KQL for reporting, detections, and investigations.

You also monitor, identify, investigate, and respond to threats in cloud and on-premises environments by using:

  • Microsoft Defender XDR
  • Copilot for Security
  • Microsoft Sentinel
  • Microsoft Defender for Cloud Workload Protections
  • Third-party security solutions

You collaborate with business and security leadership to define security standards for the organization. You work with other roles across the digital enterprise to implement the standards, to enhance the security posture of an organization, and to raise security awareness.

As a candidate, you should be familiar with:

  • Microsoft 365
  • Azure cloud services
  • Windows, Linux, and mobile operating systems
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What you will learn ?

  • Manage a security operations environment ( 20 – 25% )
  • Configure protections and detections ( 15 – 20% )
  • Manage incident response ( 25 – 30% )
  • Manage security threats ( 15 – 20% )

Manage a security operations environment Configure settings in Microsoft Defender XDR

  • Configure alert and vulnerability notification rules
  • Configure Microsoft Defender for Endpoint advanced features
  • Configure endpoint rules settings
  • Manage automated investigation and response capabilities in Microsoft Defender XDR
  • Configure automatic attack disruption in Microsoft Defender XDR

Manage assets and environments

  • Configure and manage device groups, permissions, and automation levels in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
  • Identify unmanaged devices in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
  • Discover unprotected resources by using Defender for Cloud
  • Identify and remediate devices at risk by using Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management
  • Mitigate risk by using Exposure Management in Microsoft Defender XDR

Design and configure a Microsoft Sentinel workspace

  • Plan a Microsoft Sentinel workspace
  • Configure Microsoft Sentinel roles
  • Specify Azure RBAC roles for Microsoft Sentinel configuration
  • Design and configure Microsoft Sentinel data storage, including log types and log retention

Ingest data sources in Microsoft Sentinel

  • Identify data sources to be ingested for Microsoft Sentinel
  • Implement and use Content hub solutions
  • Configure and use Microsoft connectors for Azure resources, including Azure Policy and diagnostic settings
  • Plan and configure Syslog and Common Event Format (CEF) event collections
  • Plan and configure collection of Windows Security events by using data collection rules, including Windows Event Forwarding (WEF)
  • Create custom log tables in the workspace to store ingested data
  • Monitor and optimize data ingestion

Configure protections and detections Configure protections in Microsoft Defender security technologies

  • Configure policies for Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
  • Configure policies for Microsoft Defender for Office 365
  • Configure security policies for Microsoft Defender for Endpoints, including attack surface reduction (ASR) rules
  • Configure cloud workload protections in Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Configure detections in Microsoft Defender XDR

  • Configure and manage custom detection rules
  • Manage alerts, including tuning, suppression, and correlation
  • Configure deception rules in Microsoft Defender XDR

Configure detections in Microsoft Sentinel

  • Classify and analyze data by using entities
  • Configure and manage analytics rules
  • Query Microsoft Sentinel data by using ASIM parsers
  • Implement behavioral analytics

Manage incident response

  • Respond to alerts and incidents in the Microsoft Defender portal
  • Investigate and remediate threats by using Microsoft Defender for Office 365
  • Investigate and remediate ransomware and business email compromise incidents identified by automatic attack disruption
  • Investigate and remediate compromised entities identified by Microsoft Purview data loss prevention (DLP) policies
  • Investigate and remediate threats identified by Microsoft Purview insider risk policies
  • Investigate and remediate alerts and incidents identified by Microsoft Defender for Cloud workload protections
  • Investigate and remediate security risks identified by Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
  • Investigate and remediate compromised identities that are identified by Microsoft Entra ID
  • Investigate and remediate security alerts from Microsoft Defender for Identity

Respond to alerts and incidents identified by Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

  • Investigate device timelines
  • Perform actions on the device, including live response and collecting investigation packages
  • Perform evidence and entity investigation

Investigate Microsoft 365 activities

  • Investigate threats by using the unified audit log
  • Investigate threats by using Content Search
  • Investigate threats by using Microsoft Graph activity logs

Respond to incidents in Microsoft Sentinel

  • Investigate and remediate incidents in Microsoft Sentinel
  • Create and configure automation rules
  • Create and configure Microsoft Sentinel playbooks
  • Run playbooks on on-premises resources

Implement and use Copilot for Security

  • Create and use promptbooks
  • Manage sources for Copilot for Security, including plugins and files
  • Integrate Copilot for Security by implementing connectors
  • Manage permissions and roles in Copilot for Security
  • Monitor Copilot for Security capacity and cost
  • Identify threats and risks by using Copilot for Security
  • Investigate incidents by using Copilot for Security

Manage security threats, Hunt for threats by using Microsoft Defender XDR

  • Identify threats by using Kusto Query Language (KQL)
  • Interpret threat analytics in the Microsoft Defender portal
  • Create custom hunting queries by using KQL

Hunt for threats by using Microsoft Sentinel

  • Analyze attack vector coverage by using the MITRE ATT&CK matrix
  • Manage and use threat indicators
  • Create and manage hunts
  • Create and monitor hunting queries
  • Use hunting bookmarks for data investigations
  • Retrieve and manage archived log data
  • Create and manage search jobs

Create and configure Microsoft Sentinel workbooks

  • Activate and customize workbook templates
  • Create custom workbooks that include KQL
  • Configure visualizations
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