Microsoft Cyber Security: Learning Azure Security Center

Examine the threat landscape driven by financial gains, where attackers deploy ransomware and monetize data. Understand how criminal networks coordinate malware developers, buyers, and compromised accounts on the dark web.

Strengthen defense by understanding the cyber kill chain phases from reconnaissance to C2, and applying early detection to enhance security posture. Learn how external and internal reconnaissance feed attacks.

Analyze common threats like command and control, drive-by downloads, and trojans in the cyber kill chain, and reinforce secure posture with hygiene, detection, and response across cloud and on-prem environments.

Learn how cloud threats emerge as attackers leverage VMs for on-prem attacks and DDoS, and why cloud workload protection and secure devops matter.

Map cloud security considerations across compliance, risk management, identity and access management, operational security, endpoint protection, data protection, encryption in transit and at rest.

Secure azure resources with network and storage protection, including default DDoS protection, layered defenses, encryption at rest, advanced threat protection for storage, and identity protection with comprehensive logging.

Explore cloud security posture management with Azure Security Center, covering CSPM and WPP concepts for securing IaaS, PaaS, and hybrid workloads, with protection, detection, and rapid incident response.

Learn Azure Security Center pricing, featuring a free tier, a 30-day standard trial, and the option to upgrade or downgrade while customizing bundles for virtual machines, storage, and containers.

Plan Azure security center governance with security admin and secure reader roles, using management groups for RBAC across subscriptions; centralize workspaces for billing and isolation, with exceptions for subscription needs.

Learn how Azure Security Center uses a log analytics workspace with 500 mb per day. Deployments scale via ARM templates or PowerShell, and threat detection flows into Azure Sentinel.

Upgrade from the free to standard tier in azure security center for a 30-day trial, select bundles (virtual machines, app services, storage), and enable auto provisioning with a centralized workspace.

Onboard servers to Azure Security Center by installing the agent, collecting the workspace ID and primary key, and validating installation through the portal or Windows Admin Center.

Learn to deploy Azure Security Center with PowerShell by registering the resource provider, configuring log analytics workspace, pricing tier, and email settings, and automating onboarding across subscriptions.

Learn how Azure Policy integrates with Azure Security Center to enforce governance by default, using initiatives, policy definitions, and auditing through Security Center recommendations.

Fine-tune Azure security center policies by disabling non-applicable rules and creating custom initiatives from the security center dashboard to validate items beyond default policies.

Map security policies to regulatory standards in the Azure Security Center regulatory compliance dashboard, and interpret green, red, and gray assessments for standards like CIS, PCI DSS, and ISO 27001.

Understand how Azure Security Center's secure score provides visibility into your cloud resources, tracks progress via security controls, and uses remediation as a KPI.

Learn to improve the secure score by enforcing policies early in deployment, making new resources secure by default, and using quick remediation to apply fixes in Azure Security Center.

Visualize and remediate Azure security recommendations for compute and apps from a single dashboard, filter by workload such as VMs, VM scale sets, containers, and prioritize actions.

Discover how Azure Security Center delivers network security recommendations, governance, and network visibility, including network map and NSG-based protections for Azure networks.

Explore Azure Security Center data and storage recommendations for SQL databases and storage accounts, view via overview, and perform single-click remediation such as enabling Azure Active Directory and secure transfer.

Explore how to remediate identity and access recommendations in Azure Security Center, highlighting identity as the new perimeter and secure hygiene across subscriptions and Key Vault.

Explore how Azure Security Center identifies unmanaged containers, compares configurations to the CIS Docker benchmarks, and generates secure recommendations, including Power BI and Qualys vulnerability scanning for containers and AKS.

Explore how Azure Security Center delivers recommendations for Azure App Service, including app service environments, web applications, and function applications, to enhance security and governance with management and monitoring insights.

Explore the IoT threat landscape and growing device exposure. Identify how insecure defaults, vulnerabilities, and access flaws enable threat actors to breach networks, move laterally, and exfiltrate data.

Explore how Azure IoT Hub and IoT Edge enable secure bidirectional telemetry, device health monitoring, and edge analytics, with Azure Security Center protecting IoT devices across containers, modules, and runtimes.

Configure Azure Security Center for IoT to monitor security posture and real-time threat detection. Deploy the device agent, route logs via IoT Hub, and surface actionable recommendations and alerts.

Enable just in time vm access to reduce the attack surface by blocking RDP and SSH ports until access is requested, using Azure Security Center, NSG rules, and RBAC checks.

Enable just-in-time VM access in Azure Security Center, review recommended and not recommended VMs, customize ports and source IP ranges, and automate access with a PowerShell script.

Enable file integrity monitor for each workspace in Azure Security Center standard tier to track file, registry, ACLs, and hash changes on Windows and Linux VMs.

Upgrade workspaces to standard to enable file integrity monitoring in Azure Security Center, then customize registry, files, and services monitoring; use the chains dashboard to view before and after changes.

Learn how Azure Security Center uses machine learning to suggest adaptive application control whitelists, operating in audit mode to baseline two weeks of data across VM groups.

Explore how Azure Security Center uses anomaly detection and behavior analytics to detect threats, fusion of alerts into secure incidents, and threat intelligence to verify malicious activity.

Azure Security Center normalizes data and uses secure analytics with threat intelligence. It surfaces alerts in the security center dashboard, detailing what happened, when, and where, plus remediation steps.

Explore secure alerts dashboard in Azure security center to visualize alerts and understand threat detection. Upgrade to the standard tier and review alert details, using false positive feedback to Microsoft.

Detect live threats in container environments with security center alerts for suspicious activity, including Docker privileged containers and SSH server indicators, and enable advanced threat protection for Azure SQL databases.

Enable advanced threat protection for storage accounts through Azure Security Center or per storage account to detect unusual access and malware uploads, with alerts showing operation type and client details.

Explore how Azure Security Center integrates with Defender ATP for servers and Cloud App Security, using machine learning to detect anomalies and user behavior, with alerts in secure center dashboard.

Learn how to consume Azure Security Center alerts via rest and graph apis, using http methods, headers, and status codes, to retrieve and filter high-severity alerts across services.

Explore how playbooks in Azure Security Center automate actions via Logic Apps, turning security alerts and recommendations into workflows with automation and permissions considerations.

Validate your playbook by testing alert and recommendation triggers and align the logic app with workflow automation settings. Use run history to audit executions, simulate triggers, and troubleshoot mismatches.

Learn to hunt threats in Azure Security Center by analyzing secure alerts, export to the Log Analytics workspace, and drill back using event id 4688 queries.

Navigate the secure alerts dashboard to review alerts, track attacker activity, and query logs with IntelliSense to reveal details like Mimikatz within a seven-day window.

Integrate Azure Security Center with Azure Sentinel to feed alerts and enable cross-source data correlation for threat hunting, using the Azure Security Center connector configured in Sentinel.

Compare proactive and reactive hunting in Azure Sentinel, using threat intelligence and indicators of compromise to investigate incidents and spot indications of compromise in the log analytics workspace.

Learn how Azure Sentinel handles reactive incidents through analytics, alerts and playbooks, and how proactive hunting uses built-in Kusto queries, custom hunting queries, and community resources to detect threats.

Explore how to use Azure Security Center as your cloud security posture management and workload protection platform, and outline the steps to implement and operate the solution.