SC-200: Microsoft Security Operations Analyst

Course Description:

The SC-200: Microsoft Security Operations Analyst course will help students learn how to investigate, respond to, and hunt for threats using Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and Microsoft 365 Defender. Students will learn how to mitigate cyberthreats using these technologies.

During the class, students will configure and use Microsoft Sentinel as well as utilize Kusto Query Language (KQL) to perform detection, analysis, and reporting. This course is designed for people who work in a Security Operations job role and helps learners prepare for the exam SC-200: Microsoft Security Operations Analyst.

Audience Profile
The Microsoft Security Operations Analyst collaborates with organizational stakeholders to secure information technology systems for the organization. Their goal is to reduce organizational risk by rapidly remediating active attacks in the environment, advising on improvements to threat protection practices, and referring violations of organizational policies to appropriate stakeholders.

Responsibilities include threat management, monitoring, and response by using a variety of security solutions across their environment. The role primarily investigates, responds to, and hunts for threats using Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft 365 Defender, and third-party security products. Since the Security Operations Analyst consumes the operational output of these tools, they are also a critical stakeholder in the configuration and deployment of these technologies.

Job role: Security Engineer

Exam Code: SC-200

Skills gained

• Explain how Microsoft Defender for Endpoint can remediate risks in your environment
• Administer a Microsoft Defender for Endpoint environmentt
• Configure Attack Surface Reduction rules on Windows devicest
• Perform actions on a device using Microsoft Defender for Endpointt
• Investigate domains and IP addresses in Microsoft Defender for Endpointt
• Investigate user accounts in Microsoft Defender for Endpointt
• Configure alert settings in Microsoft 365 Defendert
• Explain how the threat landscape is evolvingt
• Conduct advanced hunting in Microsoft 365 Defendert
• Manage incidents in Microsoft 365 Defendert
• Explain how Microsoft Defender for Identity can remediate risks in your environmentt
• Investigate DLP alerts in Microsoft Defender for Cloud Appst
• Explain the types of actions you can take on an insider risk management caset
• Configure auto-provisioning in Microsoft Defender for Cloud Appst
• Remediate alerts in Microsoft Defender for Cloud Appst
• Construct KQL statementst
• Filter searches based on event time, severity, domain, and other relevant data using KQLt
• Extract data from unstructured string fields using KQLt
• Manage a Microsoft Sentinel workspacet
• Use KQL to access the watchlist in Microsoft Sentinelt
• Manage threat indicators in Microsoft Sentinelt
• Explain the Common Event Format and Syslog connector differences in Microsoft Sentinelt
• Connect Azure Windows Virtual Machines to Microsoft Sentinelt
• Configure Log Analytics agent to collect Sysmon eventst
• Create new analytics rules and queries using the analytics rule wizardt
• Create a playbook to automate an incident responset
• Use queries to hunt for threatst
• Observe threats over time with livestreamt

Module 1: Mitigate threats using Microsoft 365 Defender
Analyze threat data across domains and rapidly remediate threats with built-in orchestration and automation in Microsoft 365 Defender. Learn about cybersecurity threats and how the new threat protection tools from Microsoft protect your organization’s users, devices, and data. Use the advanced detection and remediation of identity-based threats to protect your Azure Active Directory identities and applications from compromise.
Lessons
• Introduction to threat protection with Microsoft 365
• Mitigate incidents using Microsoft 365 Defender
• Remediate risks with Microsoft Defender for Office 365
• Microsoft Defender for Identity
• Protect your identities with Azure AD Identity Protection
• Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
• Respond to data loss prevention alerts using Microsoft 365
• Manage insider risk in Microsoft 365

Module 2: Mitigate threats using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Implement the Microsoft Defender for Endpoint platform to detect, investigate, and respond to advanced threats. Learn how Microsoft Defender for Endpoint can help your organization stay secure. Learn how to deploy the Microsoft Defender for Endpoint environment, including onboarding devices and configuring security. Learn how to investigate incidents and alerts using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. Perform advanced hunting and consult with threat experts. You will also learn how to configure automation in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint by managing environmental settings. Lastly, you will learn about your environment's weaknesses by using Threat and Vulnerability Management in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.
Lessons
• Protect against threats with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
• Deploy the Microsoft Defender for Endpoint environment
• Implement Windows security enhancements
• Perform device investigations
• Perform actions on a device
• Perform evidence and entities investigations
• Configure and manage automation
• Configure for alerts and detections
• Utilize Threat and Vulnerability Management

Module 3: Mitigate threats using Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Use Microsoft Defender for Cloud, for Azure, hybrid cloud, and on-premises workload protection and security. Learn the purpose of Microsoft Defender for Cloud and how to enable it. You will also learn about the protections and detections provided by Microsoft Defender for Cloud for each cloud workload. Learn how you can add Microsoft Defender for Cloud capabilities to your hybrid environment.
Lessons
• Plan for cloud workload protections using Microsoft Defender for Cloud
• Workload protections in Microsoft Defender for Cloud
• Connect Azure assets to Microsoft Defender for Cloud
• Connect non-Azure resources to Microsoft Defender for Cloud
• Remediate security alerts using Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Module 4: Create queries for Microsoft Sentinel using Kusto Query Language (KQL)
Write Kusto Query Language (KQL) statements to query log data to perform detections, analysis, and reporting in Microsoft Sentinel. This module will focus on the most used operators. The example KQL statements will showcase security related table queries. KQL is the query language used to perform analysis on data to create analytics, workbooks, and perform hunting in Microsoft Sentinel. Learn how basic KQL statement structure provides the foundation to build more complex statements. Learn how to summarize and visualize data with a KQL statement provides the foundation to build detections in Microsoft Sentinel. Learn how to use the Kusto Query Language (KQL) to manipulate string data ingested from log sources.
Lessons
• Construct KQL statements for Microsoft Sentinel
• Analyze query results using KQL
• Build multi-table statements using KQL
• Work with string data using KQL statements

Module 5: Configure your Microsoft Sentinel environment
Get started with Microsoft Sentinel by properly configuring the Microsoft Sentinel workspace. Traditional security information and event management (SIEM) systems typically take a long time to set up and configure. They're also not necessarily designed with cloud workloads in mind. Microsoft Sentinel enables you to start getting valuable security insights from your cloud and on-premises data quickly. This module helps you get started. Learn about the architecture of Microsoft Sentinel workspaces to ensure you configure your system to meet your organization's security operations requirements. As a Security Operations Analyst, you must understand the tables, fields, and data ingested in your workspace. Learn how to query the most used data tables in Microsoft Sentinel.
Lessons
• Introduction to Microsoft Sentinel
• Create and manage Microsoft Sentinel workspaces
• Query logs in Microsoft Sentinel
• Use watchlists in Microsoft Sentinel
• Utilize threat intelligence in Microsoft Sentinel

Module 6: Connect logs to Microsoft Sentinel
Connect data at cloud scale across all users, devices, applications, and infrastructure, both on-premises and in multiple clouds to Microsoft Sentinel. The primary approach to connect log data is using the Microsoft Sentinel provided data connectors. This module provides an overview of the available data connectors. You will get to learn about the configuration options and data provided by Microsoft Sentinel connectors for Microsoft 365 Defender.
Lessons
• Connect data to Microsoft Sentinel using data connectors
• Connect Microsoft services to Microsoft Sentinel
• Connect Microsoft 365 Defender to Microsoft Sentinel
• Connect Windows hosts to Microsoft Sentinel
• Connect Common Event Format logs to Microsoft Sentinel
• Connect syslog data sources to Microsoft Sentinel
• Connect threat indicators to Microsoft Sentinel

Module 7: Create detections and perform investigations using Microsoft Sentinel
Detect previously uncovered threats and rapidly remediate threats with built-in orchestration and automation in Microsoft Sentinel. You will learn how to create Microsoft Sentinel playbooks to respond to security threats. You'll investigate Microsoft Sentinel incident management, learn about Microsoft Sentinel events and entities, and discover ways to resolve incidents. You will also learn how to query, visualize, and monitor data in Microsoft Sentinel.
Lessons
• Threat detection with Microsoft Sentinel analytics
• Security incident management in Microsoft Sentinel
• Threat response with Microsoft Sentinel playbooks
• User and entity behavior analytics in Microsoft Sentinel
• Query, visualize, and monitor data in Microsoft Sentinel

Module 8: Perform threat hunting in Microsoft Sentinel
In this module, you'll learn to proactively identify threat behaviors by using Microsoft Sentinel queries. You'll also learn to use bookmarks and livestream to hunt threats. You will also learn how to use notebooks in Microsoft Sentinel for advanced hunting.
Lessons
• Threat hunting concepts in Microsoft Sentinel
• Threat hunting with Microsoft Sentinel
• Hunt for threats using notebooks in Microsoft Sentinel

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