1 - Introduction to Microsoft 365 threat protection

• Explore Extended Detection & Response (XDR) response use cases
• Understand Microsoft Defender XDR in a Security Operations Center (SOC)
• Explore Microsoft Security Graph
• Investigate security incidents in Microsoft Defender XDR

2 - Mitigate incidents using Microsoft 365 Defender

• Use the Microsoft Defender portal
• Manage incidents
• Investigate incidents
• Manage and investigate alerts
• Manage automated investigations
• Use the action center
• Explore advanced hunting
• Investigate Microsoft Entra sign-in logs
• Understand Microsoft Secure Score
• Analyze threat analytics
• Analyze reports
• Configure the Microsoft Defender portal

3 - Protect your identities with Microsoft Entra ID Protection

• Microsoft Entra ID Protection overview
• Detect risks with Microsoft Entra ID Protection policies
• Investigate and remediate risks detected by Microsoft Entra ID Protection

4 - Remediate risks with Microsoft Defender for Office 365

• Automate, investigate, and remediate
• Configure, protect, and detect
• Simulate attacks

5 - Safeguard your environment with Microsoft Defender for Identity

• Configure Microsoft Defender for Identity sensors
• Review compromised accounts or data
• Integrate with other Microsoft tools

6 - Secure your cloud apps and services with Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

• Understand the Defender for Cloud Apps Framework
• Explore your cloud apps with Cloud Discovery
• Protect your data and apps with Conditional Access App Control
• Walk through discovery and access control with Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
• Classify and protect sensitive information
• Detect Threats

7 - Respond to data loss prevention alerts using Microsoft 365

• Describe data loss prevention alerts
• Investigate data loss prevention alerts in Microsoft Purview
• Investigate data loss prevention alerts in Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

8 - Manage insider risk in Microsoft Purview

• Insider risk management overview
• Create and manage insider risk policies
• Investigate insider risk alerts
• Take action on insider risk alerts through cases
• Manage insider risk management forensic evidence
• Create insider risk management notice templates

9 - Investigate threats by using audit features in Microsoft Defender XDR and Microsoft Purview Standard

• Explore Microsoft Purview Audit solutions
• Implement Microsoft Purview Audit (Standard)
• Start recording activity in the Unified Audit Log
• Search the Unified Audit Log (UAL)
• Export, configure, and view audit log records
• Use audit log searching to investigate common support issues

10 - Investigate threats using audit in Microsoft Defender XDR and Microsoft Purview (Premium)

• Explore Microsoft Purview Audit (Premium)
• Implement Microsoft Purview Audit (Premium)
• Manage audit log retention policies
• Investigate compromised email accounts using Purview Audit (Premium)

11 - Investigate threats with Content search in Microsoft Purview

• Explore Microsoft Purview eDiscovery solutions
• Create a content search
• View the search results and statistics
• Export the search results and search report
• Configure search permissions filtering
• Search for and delete email messages

12 - Protect against threats with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

• Practice security administration
• Hunt threats within your network

13 - Deploy the Microsoft Defender for Endpoint environment

• Create your environment
• Understand operating systems compatibility and features
• Onboard devices
• Manage access
• Create and manage roles for role-based access control
• Configure device groups
• Configure environment advanced features

14 - Implement Windows security enhancements with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

• Understand attack surface reduction
• Enable attack surface reduction rules

15 - Perform device investigations in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

• Use the device inventory list
• Investigate the device
• Use behavioral blocking
• Detect devices with device discovery

16 - Perform actions on a device using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

• Explain device actions
• Run Microsoft Defender antivirus scan on devices
• Collect investigation package from devices
• Initiate live response session

17 - Perform evidence and entities investigations using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

• Investigate a file
• Investigate a user account
• Investigate an IP address
• Investigate a domain

18 - Configure and manage automation using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

• Configure advanced features
• Manage automation upload and folder settings
• Configure automated investigation and remediation capabilities
• Block at risk devices

19 - Configure for alerts and detections in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

• Configure advanced features
• Configure alert notifications
• Manage alert suppression
• Manage indicators

20 - Utilize Vulnerability Management in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

• Understand vulnerability management
• Explore vulnerabilities on your devices
• Manage remediation

21 - Plan for cloud workload protections using Microsoft Defender for Cloud

• Explain Microsoft Defender for Cloud
• Describe Microsoft Defender for Cloud workload protections
• Enable Microsoft Defender for Cloud

22 - Connect Azure assets to Microsoft Defender for Cloud

• Explore and manage your resources with asset inventory
• Configure auto provisioning
• Manual log analytics agent provisioning

23 - Connect non-Azure resources to Microsoft Defender for Cloud

• Protect non-Azure resources
• Connect non-Azure machines
• Connect your AWS accounts
• Connect your GCP accounts

24 - Manage your cloud security posture management

• Explore Secure Score
• Explore Recommendations
• Measure and enforce regulatory compliance
• Understand Workbooks

25 - Explain cloud workload protections in Microsoft Defender for Cloud

• Understand Microsoft Defender for servers
• Understand Microsoft Defender for App Service
• Understand Microsoft Defender for Storage
• Understand Microsoft Defender for SQL
• Understand Microsoft Defender for open-source databases
• Understand Microsoft Defender for Key Vault
• Understand Microsoft Defender for Resource Manager
• Understand Microsoft Defender for DNS
• Understand Microsoft Defender for Containers
• Understand Microsoft Defender additional protections

26 - Remediate security alerts using Microsoft Defender for Cloud

• Understand security alerts
• Remediate alerts and automate responses
• Suppress alerts from Defender for Cloud
• Generate threat intelligence reports
• Respond to alerts from Azure resources

27 - Construct KQL statements for Microsoft Sentinel

• Understand the Kusto Query Language statement structure
• Use the search operator
• Use the where operator
• Use the let statement
• Use the extend operator
• Use the order by operator
• Use the project operators

28 - Analyze query results using KQL

• Use the summarize operator
• Use the summarize operator to filter results
• Use the summarize operator to prepare data
• Use the render operator to create visualizations

29 - Build multi-table statements using KQL

• Use the union operator
• Use the join operator

30 - Work with data in Microsoft Sentinel using Kusto Query Language

• Extract data from unstructured string fields
• Extract data from structured string data
• Integrate external data
• Create parsers with functions

31 - Introduction to Microsoft Sentinel

• What is Microsoft Sentinel
• How Microsoft Sentinel works
• When to use Microsoft Sentinel

32 - Create and manage Microsoft Sentinel workspaces

• Plan for the Microsoft Sentinel workspace
• Create a Microsoft Sentinel workspace
• Manage workspaces across tenants using Azure Lighthouse
• Understand Microsoft Sentinel permissions and roles
• Manage Microsoft Sentinel settings
• Configure logs

33 - Query logs in Microsoft Sentinel

• Query logs in the logs page
• Understand Microsoft Sentinel tables
• Understand common tables
• Understand Microsoft Defender XDR tables

34 - Use watchlists in Microsoft Sentinel

• Plan for watchlists
• Create a watchlist
• Manage watchlists

35 - Utilize threat intelligence in Microsoft Sentinel

• Define threat intelligence
• Manage your threat indicators
• View your threat indicators with KQL

36 - Connect data to Microsoft Sentinel using data connectors

• Ingest log data with data connectors
• Understand data connector providers
• View connected hosts

37 - Connect Microsoft services to Microsoft Sentinel

• Plan for Microsoft services connectors
• Connect the Microsoft Office 365 connector
• Connect the Microsoft Entra connector
• Connect the Microsoft Entra ID Protection connector
• Connect the Azure Activity connector

38 - Connect Microsoft Defender XDR to Microsoft Sentinel

• Plan for Microsoft Defender XDR connectors
• Connect the Microsoft Defender XDR connector
• Connect Microsoft Defender for Cloud connector
• Connect Microsoft Defender for IoT
• Connect Microsoft Defender legacy connectors

39 - Connect Windows hosts to Microsoft Sentinel

• Plan for Windows hosts security events connector
• Connect using the Windows Security Events via AMA Connector
• Connect using the Security Events via Legacy Agent Connector
• Collect Sysmon event logs

40 - Connect Common Event Format logs to Microsoft Sentinel

• Plan for Common Event Format connector
• Connect your external solution using the Common Event Format connector

41 - Connect syslog data sources to Microsoft Sentinel

• Plan for syslog data collection
• Collect data from Linux-based sources using syslog
• Configure the Data Collection Rule for Syslog Data Sources
• Parse syslog data with KQL

42 - Connect threat indicators to Microsoft Sentinel

• Plan for threat intelligence connectors
• Connect the threat intelligence TAXII connector
• Connect the threat intelligence platforms connector
• View your threat indicators with KQL

43 - Threat detection with Microsoft Sentinel analytics

• What is Microsoft Sentinel Analytics
• Types of analytics rules
• Create an analytics rule from templates
• Create an analytics rule from wizard
• Manage analytics rules

44 - Automation in Microsoft Sentinel

• Understand automation options
• Create automation rules

45 - Threat response with Microsoft Sentinel playbooks

• What are Microsoft Sentinel playbooks
• Trigger a playbook in real-time
• Run playbooks on demand

46 - Security incident management in Microsoft Sentinel

• Understand incidents
• Incident evidence and entities
• Incident management

47 - Identify threats with Behavioral Analytics

• Understand behavioral analytics
• Explore entities
• Display entity behavior information
• Use Anomaly detection analytical rule templates

48 - Data normalization in Microsoft Sentinel

• Understand data normalization
• Use ASIM Parsers
• Understand parameterized KQL functions
• Create an ASIM Parser
• Configure Azure Monitor Data Collection Rules

49 - Query, visualize, and monitor data in Microsoft Sentinel

• Monitor and visualize data
• Query data using Kusto Query Language
• Use default Microsoft Sentinel Workbooks
• Create a new Microsoft Sentinel Workbook

50 - Manage content in Microsoft Sentinel

• Use solutions from the content hub
• Use repositories for deployment

51 - Explain threat hunting concepts in Microsoft Sentinel

• Understand cybersecurity threat hunts
• Develop a hypothesis
• Explore MITRE ATT&CK

52 - Threat hunting with Microsoft Sentinel

• Explore creation and management of threat-hunting queries
• Save key findings with bookmarks
• Observe threats over time with livestream

53 - Use Search jobs in Microsoft Sentinel

• Hunt with a Search Job
• Restore historical data

54 - Hunt for threats using notebooks in Microsoft Sentinel

• Access Azure Sentinel data with external tools
• Hunt with notebooks
• Create a notebook
• Explore notebook code

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