Microsoft Defender for Cloud essentials

AZ-500 · Secure Azure using Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Microsoft Sentinel · Updated

Secure score, CSPM versus Defender plans, regulatory compliance, multicloud connectors, agents and workflow automation in Microsoft Defender for Cloud.

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In this lesson
  • Posture: recommendations and secure score
  • Protection: Defender plans
  • Connecting machines and clouds
  • Alerts and automation
  • Exam traps
  • Practice questions

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AZ-500 course outline

All 8 lessons · Course overview
  1. Conditional Access and MFA in Microsoft Entra IDSecure identity and access Free
  2. Privileged Identity Management and Azure RBACSecure identity and access Free
  3. App registrations and managed identitiesSecure identity and access Full access
  4. NSGs, ASGs and Azure FirewallSecure networking Full access
  5. Private endpoints, service endpoints and BastionSecure networking Full access
  6. Azure Key Vault and disk encryptionSecure compute, storage and databases Full access
  7. Microsoft Defender for Cloud essentialsSecure Azure using Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Microsoft Sentinel Full access
  8. Microsoft Sentinel and Log Analytics queriesSecure Azure using Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Microsoft Sentinel Full access