Microsoft SC-200: Security Operations Analyst Certification

Explore Defender for Endpoint architecture as a digital immune system with four core components—sensor, cloud platform, threat intelligence, and vulnerability management—to enable proactive, integrated threat detection and response.

Onboard and configure devices with Defender for Endpoint to gain visibility, then apply configuration profiles and ASR rules via Intune, group policy, SCCM, or scripts, using audit, validate, block.

Follow a real-world ransomware attack from first click to containment, learning threat detection, attack story timeline, PowerShell, lateral movement, and rapid device isolation to stop the breach.

Learn proactive threat hunting with kql in microsoft defender: build hypotheses, query device process events with where and project, identify encoded PowerShell commands, and automate detections with custom rules.

Defender for Identity protects the new perimeter—user identities—by monitoring domain controllers with a sensor and cloud portal to detect compromised accounts and proactively address identity hygiene issues.

Identity theft drives modern breaches; attackers log in with stolen credentials, move laterally, and use techniques like pass-the-hash, golden tickets, and dc-sync to seize control, highlighting identity-based defense.

Explain how Defender for Office 365 protects emails, links, and documents with a multi-layer shield, using Safe Attachments, Safe Links, sandboxing, dynamic delivery, and Campaign Views.

Explore how security analysts use Threat Explorer to investigate phishing emails, assess damage, and execute a rapid, organization-wide response with hard deletes and a submissions portal.

Unify multi-cloud visibility and secure posture by using cloud security posture management to inventory assets, perform continuous assessment, prioritize fixes with secure score, and automate remediation via quickfix and compliance.

Learn to protect heterogeneous cloud workloads with Defender for Cloud's modular workload protection, securing servers, containers, and databases through workload-specific telemetry and centralized monitoring.

Shift left security integrates security from day one into the development pipeline with Defender for DevOps, using IaC scanning and secret scanning to prevent breaches before deployment.

Architect a scalable Microsoft Sentinel deployment by establishing a Log Analytics workspace, wiring in data connectors, and enabling hunting with KQL, analytics rules, and playbooks.

Master data connectors in Microsoft Sentinel to enable visibility by ingesting logs from 100+ built-in sources. Configure connectors correctly to feed rich telemetry into analytics rules and SOAR playbooks.

Master log management with Microsoft Sentinel by balancing performance, compliance, and cost through interactive retention, archiving, and data classification into analytics and basic logs for fast threat hunting.

Master KQL fundamentals for security by using where, project, extend, summarize, and sort to hunt threats in Microsoft Sentinel. Build queries with go function, has, and parse for precise detection.

Engineer cross-table KQL queries to link device alerts with identity logs, apply serialize and window functions, and leverage UEBA enrichment for high-fidelity Microsoft Sentinel detections.

Create and tune analytics rules in Microsoft Sentinel to convert raw logs into actionable alerts using KQL-powered scheduled rules, enrichment, event grouping, and health monitoring.

Turn chaos into control with a structured incident management workflow in Microsoft Sentinel. Use alert aggregation, a unified incident, and the investigation graph to guide containment and recovery.

Learn how Microsoft Sentinel uses playbooks and automation to speed incident response in security operations with Azure Logic Apps, enrichment, containment, and orchestration.

Integrate threat intelligence with Microsoft Sentinel to transform logs into proactive threat hunting using IOCs, TI-MAP rules, and threat intelligence feeds.

Analyze two real incidents—FinanceCorp ransomware and an insider threat at Tech Innovate—using the Microsoft security stack to detect, respond, and harden defenses.

An insider threat case shows how UEBA flags abnormal downloads, off-hours activity, USB use ban, and personal cloud uploads, enabling swift containment, access revocation, and strengthened data loss prevention.