Microsoft Security Courses UK

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 Azure Sentinel, Azure Defender, 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.

Prerequisites:

• While it is advised that you first attain the Fundamentals certification, it is not a requirement.

Required Exams / Courses

• SC-200: Microsoft Security Operations Analyst

The Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator designs, implements, and operates an organization’s identity and access management systems by using Azure AD. They manage tasks such as providing secure authentication and authorization access to enterprise applications. The administrator provides seamless experiences and self-service management capabilities for all users. Adaptive access and governance are core elements to the role. This role is also responsible for troubleshooting, monitoring, and reporting for the identity and access environment.

The Identity and Access Administrator may be a single individual or a member of a larger team. This role collaborates with many other roles in the organization to drive strategic identity projects to modernize identity solutions, to implement hybrid identity solutions, and to implement identity governance.

Prerequisites:

• While it is advised that you first attain the Fundamentals certification, it is not a requirement.

Required Exams / Courses

• SC-300: Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator

The Information Protection Administrator plans and implements controls that meet organizational compliance needs. This person is responsible for translating requirements and compliance controls into technical implementation. They assist organizational control owners to become and stay compliant.

They work with information technology (IT) personnel, business application owners, human resources, and legal stakeholders to implement technology that supports policies and controls necessary to sufficiently address regulatory requirements for their organization. They also work with the compliance and security leadership such as a Chief Compliance Officer and Security Officer to evaluate the full breadth of associated enterprise risk and partner to develop those policies.

This person defines applicable requirements and tests IT processes and operations against those policies and controls. They are responsible for creating policies and rules for content classification, data loss prevention, governance, and protection.

Prerequisites:

• While it is advised that you first attain the Fundamentals certification, it is not a requirement.

Required Exams / Courses

• SC-400: Microsoft Information Protection Administrator

Azure Security Engineers implement security controls and threat protection; manage identity and access; and protect data, applications, and networks in cloud and hybrid environments as part of end-to-end infrastructure.

Prerequisites:

• While it is advised that you first attain the Fundamentals certification, it is not a requirement.

Required Exams / Courses

• AZ-500 Microsoft Azure Security Technologies

Microsoft Security Administrators proactively secure M enterprise and hybrid environments, implement and manage security and compliance solutions, respond to threats, and enforce data governance.

Prerequisites:

• While it is advised that you first attain the Fundamentals certification, it is not a requirement.

Required Exams / Courses

• MS-500 Microsoft Security Administrator