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Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect Exam Ref SC-100

By : Dwayne Natwick
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Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect Exam Ref SC-100

5 (1)
By: Dwayne Natwick

Overview of this book

Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect Exam Ref SC-100 is a comprehensive guide that will help cybersecurity professionals design and evaluate the cybersecurity architecture of Microsoft cloud services. Complete with hands-on tutorials, projects, and self-assessment questions, you’ll have everything you need to pass the SC-100 exam. This book will take you through designing a strategy for a cybersecurity architecture and evaluating the governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) of the architecture. This will include cloud-only and hybrid infrastructures, where you’ll learn how to protect using the principles of zero trust, along with evaluating security operations and the overall security posture. To make sure that you are able to take the SC-100 exam with confidence, the last chapter of this book will let you test your knowledge with a mock exam and practice questions. By the end of this book, you’ll have the knowledge you need to plan, design, and evaluate cybersecurity for Microsoft cloud and hybrid infrastructures, and pass the SC-100 exam with flying colors.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Part 1: The Evolution of Cybersecurity in the Cloud
3
Part 2: Designing a Zero-Trust Strategy and Architecture
7
Part 3: Evaluating Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Technical Strategies and Security Operations Strategies
10
Part 4: Designing Security for Infrastructure
13
Part 5: Designing a Strategy for Data and Applications

Evaluating a security operations strategy for sharing technical threat intelligence

Security operations is a continuously evolving aspect of a company. This involves the need to stay a step or two ahead of the constant addition of new and more complex attacks, and the always-present attacks, such as phishing, malicious URLs, and brute-force attacks. Constant learning and sharing of technical threat intelligence is necessary for effective security operations.

Threat intelligence gathers data on a potential attack that assists in defining the scope and objective of the threat. This is defined in the alert with characteristics of the attack, the potential location latitude and IP address of the attack, and the resource that is the destination of the attack. Refer to Figure 3.1 to see how threat intel plays a role in the SOF tiers.

Microsoft Sentinel utilizes Microsoft’s network of global threat intelligence professionals and partners. This threat intelligence is essential...