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Identity Protection and Governance 
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About

Microsoft Azure provides a comprehensive suite of security tools and services to help you safeguard your organization's data and applications. Identity Protection and governance is the right course for you if you want to become an Azure security engineer. In this course, you will learn how to protect identities in Azure AD, the core principles of enterprise governance, and Azure role-based access control (RBAC). You will get acquainted with Conditional Access, multifactor authentication (MFA), and other capabilities. You will learn how to plan and configure privilege identity management (PIM). You will also learn how to manage, assign, activate, and approve requests for a privileged access group. You will explore how to investigate and remediate risks. This course will give you an in-depth understanding of the shared responsibility model. You will learn to create policies and configure and deploy access to services using RBAC. You will see how to configure the built-in roles in Azure to control access to Azure resources. Finally, you will learn to monitor, maintain, and protect resources. This is the second course in a series of seven courses that will prepare you to succeed in the AZ-500 exam.

Modules

Deploy Azure Active Directory identity protection

    • 8 Videos
    • 6 Readings
    • 1 Discussion
    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Knowledge check: Deploy Azure Active Directory identity protection

1 Discussions

  • Meet & greet

8 Videos

  • Introduction to the course
  • Overview of Azure Active Directory Identity Protection
  • Configure risk event detections
  • Detect risks with Azure Active Directory identity protection policies
  • Multifactor authentication and identity protection
  • What is conditional access?
  • Implement access reviews
  • Investigate and remediate risks detected by Azure Active Directory identity protection

6 Readings

  • How to be successful in this course
  • Implement user risk and sign-in policies
  • Configure conditional access and access reviews
  • Exercise: Multifactor authentication, Conditional Access and Azure Active Directory Identity Protection
  • Solution: Multifactor authentication, Conditional Access and Azure Active Directory Identity Protection
  • Smart lockout

Configure Azure Active Directory privileged identity management

    • 8 Videos
    • 4 Readings
    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Knowledge check: Azure Active Directory Privileged Identity Management

8 Videos

  • Overview of Azure Active Directory Privileged Identity Management
  • Explore the zero trust model
  • The evolution of identity management
  • Plan a Privileged Identity Management deployment
  • Assign Azure Active Directory roles in Privileged Identity Management
  • Activate an Azure Active Directory role in Privileged Identity Management
  • Approve or deny requests for Azure Active Directory roles in Privileged Identity Management
  • Implement a workflow

4 Readings

  • Configure Privileged Identity Management scope
  • Exercise: Configure Azure Active Directory Privileged Identity Management for roles and resources
  • Solution: Configure Azure Active Directory Privileged Identity Management for roles and resources
  • Additional resources: Privileged Identity Management

Working with Azure Active Directory groups and guests in Azure Privileged Identity Management

    • 3 Videos
    • 4 Readings
    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Knowledge check: Working with Azure Active Directory groups and guests in Azure Privileged Identity Management

3 Videos

  • Managing privileged access Azure Active Directory groups
  • Activate privileged access group roles and approve activation requests
  • Invite guest users and assign Azure resource roles

4 Readings

  • Assign eligibility for a privileged access group
  • Exercise: Configure Azure Active Directory Privileged Identity Management for groups
  • Solution: Configure Azure Active Directory Privileged Identity Management for groups
  • Additional resources: Bring groups into Privileged Identity Management

Graded assessment: Identity protection with Azure Active Directory

    • 1 Videos
    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Module quiz: Identity protection and governance

1 Videos

  • Module summary

Core principles of enterprise governance

    • 3 Videos
    • 3 Readings
    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Knowledge check: Core principles of enterprise governance

3 Videos

  • Overview of the shared responsibility model
  • Explore the Azure cloud security advantages
  • Review Azure hierarchy of systems

3 Readings

  • The shared responsibility model in depth
  • Policies, initiatives, and recommendations
  • Additional resources: Core principles of enterprise governance

Policies

    • 3 Videos
    • 6 Readings
    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Knowledge check: Policies

3 Videos

  • Overview of Azure policies
  • Azure policy effects
  • Group policies into initiatives

6 Readings

  • Azure built-in policies
  • Azure policy definition structure
  • Get compliance data of Azure resources
  • Built-in initiatives
  • Exercise: Implement Azure Policy
  • Solution: Implement Azure Policy

Graded assessment: Design an enterprise governance strategy

    • 1 Videos
    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Module quiz: Policies, initiatives and recommendations

1 Videos

  • Module summary

Role-based access control

    • 5 Videos
    • 4 Readings
    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Knowledge check: Role-based access control

5 Videos

  • What is Azure role-based access control?
  • Enable Azure role-based access control
  • Compare and contrast Azure role-based access control vs Azure policies
  • Azure built-in roles
  • An overview of custom roles in Azure

4 Readings

  • Exercise: Azure role-based access control Role assignments
  • Solution: Azure role-based access control Role assignments
  • Create custom roles in Azure
  • Additional resources – Role-based access control (RBAC)

Monitor, maintain and protect resources

    • 4 Videos
    • 2 Readings
    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Knowledge check: Monitor, maintain and protect resources

4 Videos

  • An overview of resource locks
  • Demo: Manage resource locks
  • Deploy Azure blueprints
  • Design an Azure subscription management plan

2 Readings

  • Exercise: Enable users to manage resource locks
  • Solution: Enable users to manage resource locks

Graded assessment: Role-based access control

    • 1 Videos
    • 1 Readings
    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Module quiz: Role-based access control

1 Videos

  • Module summary

1 Readings

  • Course 2 Glossary: Identity Protection and Governance 

Project

    • 1 Videos
    • 1 Readings
    • 1 Discussion
    • 1 PeerReview
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1 Peer Review

  • Course project

1 Discussions

  • Compare your work

1 Videos

  • Course summary

1 Readings

  • About the course project

Graded assessment

    • 1 Videos
    • 1 Discussion
    • 1 Assignment
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1 Assignment

  • Graded assessment: Identity Protection and Governance

1 Discussions

  • Share helpful hints

1 Videos

  • About the graded assessment

Course wrap-up

    • 2 Videos
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2 Videos

  • Congratulations
  • Next steps

Auto Summary

"Identity Protection and Governance" is an essential course designed for aspiring Azure security engineers, offered within the IT & Computer Science domain. This course, provided by Coursera, delves into the robust security tools and services that Microsoft Azure offers to protect organizational data and applications. Learners will master key skills such as safeguarding identities in Azure AD, understanding enterprise governance principles, and utilizing Azure role-based access control (RBAC). The curriculum covers crucial topics like Conditional Access, multifactor authentication (MFA), and privilege identity management (PIM). Participants will learn to manage, assign, activate, and approve requests for privileged access groups, and explore techniques for investigating and remediating risks. Additionally, the course provides a thorough understanding of the shared responsibility model, creation and deployment of access policies using RBAC, and configuring built-in roles to control access within Azure. Monitoring, maintaining, and protecting resources are also key components of the learning experience. As part of a series aimed at preparing students for the AZ-500 exam, this professional-level course is available through Coursera's Starter and Professional subscription plans. It is ideal for IT professionals looking to enhance their security expertise and advance their careers in Azure security engineering.

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