WSQ - Microsoft Security Operations Analyst (SC-200)

Topic 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

Topic 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 center1
• Explore advanced hunting
• Investigate Microsoft Entra sign-in logs
• Understand Microsoft Secure Score

Topic 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

Topic 4: Remediate risks with Microsoft Defender for Office 365

• Introduction to Microsoft Defender for Office 365
• Automate, investigate, and remediate
• Configure, protect, and detect
• Simulate attacks

Topic 5: Safeguard your environment with Microsoft Defender for Identity

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

Topic 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

Topic 7: Respond to data loss prevention alerts using Microsoft 365

• Describe data loss prevention alerts7
• Investigate data loss prevention alerts in Microsoft Purview
• Investigate data loss prevention alerts in Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

Topic 8: Manage insider risk in Microsoft Purview

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

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

• Introduction to threat investigation with the Unified Audit Log (UAL)
• 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

Topic 10: 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

Topic 11: Protect against threats with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

• Introduction to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
• Practice security administration
• Hunt threats within your network

Topic 12: 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

Topic 13: Implement Windows security enhancements with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

• Understand attack surface reduction
• Enable attack surface reduction rules

Topic 14: Perform device investigations in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

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

Topic 15: 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

Topic 16: Perform evidence and entities investigations using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

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

Topic 17: 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

Topic 18: Configure for alerts and detections in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

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

Topic 19: Utilize Vulnerability Management in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

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

Topic 20: Plan for cloud workload protections using Microsoft Defender for Cloud

• Explain Microsoft Defender for Cloud
• Describe Microsoft Defender for Cloud workload protections
• Exercise – Microsoft Defender for Cloud interactive guide
• Enable Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Topic 21: Connect Azure assets to Microsoft Defender for Cloud

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

Topic 22: 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

Topic 23: Manage your cloud security posture management

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

Topic 24: 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

Topic 25: 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

Topic 26: 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

Topic 27: 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

Topic 28: Build multi-table statements using KQL

• Use the union operator
• Use the join operator

Topic 29: 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

Topic 30: Introduction to Microsoft Sentinel

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

Topic 31: 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

Topic 32: Query logs in Microsoft Sentinel

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

Topic 33: Use watchlists in Microsoft Sentinel

• Plan for watchlists
• Create a watchlist
• Manage watchlists

Topic 34: Utilize threat intelligence in Microsoft Sentinel

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

Topic 35: Connect data to Microsoft Sentinel using data connectors

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

Topic 36: 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

Topic 37: 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

Topic 38: 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

Topic 39: Connect Common Event Format logs to Microsoft Sentinel

• Plan for Common Event Format connector6
• Connect your external solution using the Common Event Format connector

Topic 40: 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

Topic 41: 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

Topic 42: Threat detection with Microsoft Sentinel analytics

• Exercise - Detect threats 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
• Exercise - Detect threats with Microsoft Sentinel analytics

Topic 43: Automation in Microsoft Sentinel

• Understand automation options
• Create automation rules

Topic 44: Threat response with Microsoft Sentinel playbooks

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

Topic 45: Security incident management in Microsoft Sentinel

• Exercise - Set up the Azure environment
• Understand incidents
• Incident evidence and entities
• Incident management
• Exercise - Investigate an incident

Topic 46: Identify threats with Behavioral Analytics

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

Topic 47: 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

Topic 48: Query, visualize, and monitor data in Microsoft Sentinel

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

Topic 49: Manage content in Microsoft Sentinel

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

Topic 50: Explain threat hunting concepts in Microsoft Sentinel

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

Topic 51: Threat hunting with Microsoft Sentinel

• Explore creation and management of threat-hunting queries
• Save key findings with bookmarks
• Observe threats over time with livestream
• Exercise - Hunt for threats by using Microsoft Sentinel

Topic 52: Use Search jobs in Microsoft Sentinel

• Hunt with a Search Job
• Restore historical data

Topic 53: Hunt for threats using notebooks in Microsoft Sentinel

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

Topic 54: Who Hacked cloud game

• Play Who Hacked?
• Keep playing to find the culprit!

Final Assessment  

• Written Assessment - Short Answer Questions (WA-SAQ)
• Practical Performance (PP)

Promotion Code

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Minimum Entry Requirement

Knowledge and Skills

• Able to operate using computer functions
• Minimum 3 GCE ‘O’ Levels Passes including English or WPL Level 5 (Average of Reading, Listening, Speaking & Writing Scores)

Attitude

• Positive Learning Attitude
• Enthusiastic Learner

Experience

• Minimum of 1 year of working experience.

Target age group: 21-65 years old

Minimum Software/Hardware Requirement

Software:

You can download and install the following software:

• Microsoft 365 Defender

Hardware: Windows and Mac Laptops

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