
Meet the instructor of the Windows 10 security features course and explore the course structure and key aspects of the cybersecurity professional track.
Explore Windows 10 security features, from hardware protections like secure boot to software defenses such as Windows Defender Firewall and Credential Guard, with hands-on labs and a ransomware case study.
Learn to prepare a lab for Windows 10 security features by installing VirtualBox, importing three preconfigured VMs, configuring a dedicated network, and validating inter-VM connectivity before hands-on security labs.
Discover how Windows 10's defense stack combats evolving attacks, from hardware and software protections to post-breach capabilities like Defender for Endpoint, and understand the threat landscape.
Explore how Windows 10 secures startup with secure boot in UEFI, TPM integration, and trusted boot, including Windows boot manager and automatic TPM initialization.
Explore how Windows 10 uses secure boot, trusted boot, and measured boot with UEFI and TPM to protect startup against rootkits and bootkits.
Explore Windows 10 security features, including early launch antimalware (eelam), data execution prevention, address space layout randomization, protected processes, and kernel pool protections to block tampering at startup.
Learn about Windows Defender Firewall with Advanced Security and Virtual Secure Mode, including benefits like reduced attack surface, IPsec integration, credential guard support, and management through PowerShell.
Explore credential guard and BitLocker in Windows 10 security features, detailing virtualization based security that isolates credentials and BitLocker’s TPM-based encryption with AES-based options and Azure AD recovery.
Explore Windows Defender Antivirus with cloud-delivered protection, rich local context, and tamper-proofing, and understand Windows Information Protection for data separation, app controls, encryption, remote wipe, Intune and Configuration Manager.
Discover Windows Defender Remote Credential Guard, which protects credentials during remote desktop sessions by redirecting Kerberos requests to the client, never sending credentials to target device, and enabling single sign-on.
Discover how device guard enforces code integrity to run only trusted apps, via kernel and user mode integrity, secure boot, and virtualization based security, with group policy and Intune management.
Learn how App Locker with Device Guard enables fine grained application control, defining allow and deny rules for executables, scripts, Windows Installer files, DLLs, and packaged apps.
Discover Windows Defender SmartScreen’s anti-phishing and anti-malware protection, including drive-by attack safeguards and URL reputation checks, and examine Windows 10 telemetry levels and data use.
Explore Windows 10 security features, focusing on Windows Hello and Windows Hello for Business, biometric two-factor authentication with TPM bound keys, and deployment options cloud, hybrid, and on premise.
Explore enterprise certificate pinning and new group policy settings. Learn how Windows Defender Security Center, Exploit Guard, and Application Guard protect Windows 10 devices.
Explore how Windows 10 security features mitigate the Petya ransomware attack through a multi-layer defense, including Device Guard, Credential Guard, Secure Boot, and blocker.
In this course we will examine the out-of-the-box security features and technologies in the Windows 10 Operating system. We will cover topics like the hardware security features (Secure Boot, VSM, etc.) and software security features (Device Guard, Windows Defender Firewall, Credential Guard, AppLocker, etc.)
After completing this course, you will be able to:
Understand the current nature of the security threat landscape
Explain the built-in security defenses Windows 10
Understand Windows 10 mitigations that you can configure
Understand the Windows 10 mitigations that require no configuration
Describe some of the external tools that enhance endpoint security
This course is designed to get you started as quickly as possible. There are a variety of self-paced learning activities. You will get:
Video lectures on each topic explaining each concept thoroughly with examples (and Demonstrations where applicable)
Review questions (quizz) at the end of each section
Hands-on Labs at the end of the course in which you will practice at your own pace. You will have 3 Labs available and step by step instruction files available to complete the Labs tasks like: implementing Windows Defender Firewall rules, IPSec, Bitlocker and much more.
Final Exam at the end of the course - 20 questions to test your knowledge on the topics and concepts learned in the course
Links to official Microsoft resources/blogs/videos for further documentation.
This course is the 6th course from a series of 9 courses which address all aspects to become a Microsoft Cyber Security Professional . This cyber security track is designed to teach you, or fill in the knowledge gaps, all the aspects and technologies to become a successful cyber security professional. The entire track addresses mostly Microsoft security technologies, including the latest cloud services made available by Microsoft like: Microsoft Defender Suite, Office 365 security features and services, Microsoft Graph, Azure Active Directory Security and many more.
Microsoft, Windows, Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. This course is not certified, accredited, affiliated with, nor endorsed by Microsoft Corporation.