The Microsoft cybersecurity architect has subject matter expertise in designing and evolving the cybersecurity strategy to protect an organization’s mission and business processes across all aspects of the enterprise architecture. This certification will be available on April 7, 2022.
Before I add/update my resources (coming soon) let’s look at some resources already out there..
- Announcement on TechCommunities for SC-100
- SC-100 Exam Objectives Page
- Download the SC-100 Exam Objectives
- This is most important to know. I’ll make researched links below to be used for your studying and also in preparation for my SC-100 C.E.R.T. videos* that will be on my YouTube Channel below
- https://charbelnemnom.com/sc-100-microsoft-cybersecurity-architect-expert/
- I’ll add more as they appear.
Stay tuned for my SC-100 CERT resources that will have a channel on https://aka.ms/YouTube/CERT *
NOTE: the link to each top level objective (with the %‘s) below goes straight to the MS Learning Paths. While I also have some of those explicityly linked throughout, I also try to get the real meat and potatoes articles to really solidify your learning of the topic. If I BOLD the link, it is a MUST READ as it is very likely a great overview of a topic with a lot of value all in one place!
Design a Zero Trust strategy and architecture (30–35%)
Build an overall security strategy and architecture
- identify the integration points in an architecture by using Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architecture (MCRA)
- translate business goals into security requirements
- translate security requirements into technical capabilities, including security services, security products, and security processes
- design security for a resiliency strategy
- integrate a hybrid or multi-tenant environment into a security strategy
- develop a technical and governance strategy for traffic filtering and segmentation
Design a security operations strategy
- design a logging and auditing strategy to support security operations
- develop security operations to support a hybrid or multi-cloud environment
- MS Learn” Design a security operations strategy
- design a strategy for SIEM and SOAR
- evaluate security workflows – MS Learn
- evaluate a security operations strategy for incident management lifecycle
- evaluate a security operations strategy for sharing technical threat intelligence
Design an identity security strategy
Note: includes hybrid and multi-cloud
- design a strategy for access to cloud resources
- recommend an identity store (tenants, B2B, B2C, hybrid)
- recommend an authentication strategy
- recommend an authorization strategy
- design a strategy for conditional access – MS Learn
- design a strategy for role assignment and delegation
- design security strategy for privileged role access to infrastructure including identity based firewall rules, Azure PIM
- design security strategy for privileged activities including PAM, entitlement management, cloud tenant administration
Evaluate Governance Risk Compliance (GRC) technical strategies and security operations strategies (20–25%)
Design a regulatory compliance strategy
- interpret compliance requirements and translate into specific technical capabilities (new or existing)
- evaluate infrastructure compliance by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- interpret compliance scores and recommend actions to resolve issues or improve security
- design implementation of Azure Policy
- design for data residency requirements
- translate privacy requirements into requirements for security solutions
Evaluate security posture and recommend technical strategies to manage risk
- evaluate security posture by using benchmarks (including Azure security benchmarks, ISO 2701, etc.)
- evaluate security posture by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- evaluate security posture by using Secure Scores
- evaluate security posture of cloud workloads
- design security for an Azure Landing Zone
- Improve Landing zone security
- Cloud Adoption Framework: Design Area: Security
- interpret technical threat intelligence and recommend risk mitigations
- recommend security capabilities or controls to mitigate identified risks
Design security for infrastructure (20–25%)
Design a strategy for securing server and client endpoints
NOTE: includes hybrid and multi-cloud
- specify security baselines for server and client endpoints
- specify security requirements for servers, including multiple platforms and operating systems
- specify security requirements for mobile devices and clients, including endpoint protection, hardening, and configuration
- specify requirements to secure Active Directory Domain Services
- design a strategy to manage secrets, keys, and certificates
- design a strategy for secure remote access
Design a strategy for securing SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS services
- specify security baselines for SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS services
- specify security requirements for IoT workloads
- specify security requirements for
- data workloads, including
- SQL, Azure SQL Database,
- Azure Synapse, and
- Azure Cosmos DB
- specify security requirements for web workloads, including Azure App Service
- specify security requirements for storage workloads, including Azure Storage
- specify security requirements for containers
- specify security requirements for container orchestration
Design a strategy for data and applications (20–25%)
Specify security requirements for applications
- specify priorities for mitigating threats to applications
- specify a security standard for onboarding a new application
- specify a security strategy for applications and APIs
Design a strategy for securing data
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