This course is for auditors and security teams responsible for security and compliance of their Microsoft 365 and Azure Active Directory (AzureAD) environments. This course will provide students with knowledge and practical skills to audit Microsoft 365 (M365) tenants, and to improve security of Microsoft 365 configuration and monitoring capabilities. This course is designed with real world scenarios in mind to provide practical, effective approaches for asking and answering compliance questions, reviewing M365 before and auditing M365 after solution adoption; to present practitioner approach to continuous audit, monitoring, and creating additional security and compliance visibility. At the end of the course student will be able to effectively audit Microsoft 365 configuration and organization compliance, understand and improve security of the environment, and implement basic continuous audit and monitoring of the organization Microsoft 365 tenant.
At course completion students will be able to:
- Answer questions and describe how Microsoft 365 complies with various regulatory frameworks and data protection standards
- Assure proper basic Microsoft 365 configuration before solution adoption and email migration
- Audit Microsoft 365 configuration after adoption (email migration) using graphical user interface (GUI) – Azure Active Directory (AzureAD), Security & Compliance center (e.g. DLP, Anti-phishing, anti-malware policies, alerts), Cloud App Security (shadow IT discovery), Microsoft 365 Admin center, Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, Intune.
- Audit specific Microsoft 365 elements that require use of PowerShell
- Understand and use Security & Compliance Center for continuous audit / monitoring
- Understand Windows Defender Security ATP Center (WDATP) role and capabilities in protecting the organization
- Understand how Azure security tools can enhance organization security and compliance, by integrating data from multiple computing platforms and environments.
- Understand how Microsoft 365 cybersecurity strategy works and protects users, devices and data.
Audience profile: This course is intended for IT professional, managers, system administrators, cybersecurity teams and auditors responsible for managing, securing and auditing Microsoft 365 environments (tenants).
Class Times:
Tuesday, June 9, 2020 9:00 AM to 1:30 PM
Wednesday, June 10, 2020 9:00 AM to 1:30 PM
CPEs earned:
10
Virtual Class link will be delivered to you by email a day before the class.