Microsoft Sentinel SC-200: Zero to Hero

Welcome to this in-depth Microsoft Sentinel (formerly Azure Sentinel) course, designed to help you get up-and-running expert users by mastering the skills and knowledge needed to take full advantage of the Microsoft Sentinel platform for deep threat detection and response. This course is available with free access to hands-on labs so that you will get real-world exposure.

What You'll Learn

Getting started with Microsoft Sentinel

How to Get an Account Set Up: How to get a free Azure account and set up Microsoft Sentinel from scratch.

First Time Setup: Know how to set up and administer a Log Analytics Workspace - the crown jewel of Microsoft Sentinel

Getting a Deep Dive into Log Analytics and KQL

Log Analysis with KQL: Master powerful log analysis using the Kusto Query Language (KQL) with critical discovery

Creating Queries: Learn how to create your own custom queries so that you can filter and analyze your log data effectively.

Data Connectors

Integration: Learn how to bring in all different kinds of data sources into Microsoft Sentinel so that you are well covered all the way across your environment.

Connector Configuration: Configure and manage data connectors for hiccup-free data ingestion.

Analytics Rule Development

Development and Management: Create and manage analytics rules to detect threats quickly and correctly and get meaningful results.

Enabling Rules: Learn how to enable and configure native rules and how to create custom rules applicable only to your organization's needs.

Alerts Management: Understand how to manage and respond to the alerts caused by analytics rules.

Incident Investigation and Management

Handling Incident: Best Practice of an incident investigation to not only know how to identify the root cause but also to manage response workflows.

Module 4: Incident Triage: This module will teach you how to categorize and prioritize your incidents based on their severity and probable impact.

Response Strategies: Develop effective response strategies which could mitigate threats by taking steps that minimize the probable impacts.

Threat Hunting

Proactive Hunting: Threat hunting should be proactive where you will identify and mitigate potential threats well before they could cause harm.

Hunting Queries: Develop and run the hunting queries to uncover hidden threats.

Threat Hunting Techniques: Learn multiple threat hunting techniques and methodologies to stay ahead of adversaries.

Workbooks

Visualization: Build and maintain insightful workboards to provide efficient data visualization and analysis.

Custom Dashboards: Develop custom dashboards to monitor and report on security metrics.
Share and Collaborate: Share workbooks and collaborate with the team on different workbooks.

Playbooks

Automate with Playbooks: Use playbooks to adopt advance automation techniques and minimize the amount of manual intervention for threat response.

Development and Playbook Management of Automated Incident Response
Integration with Logic Apps: Leverage the ability of the Playbooks via Azure Logic Apps

SOAR and Automation

Capabilities of SOAR: The ability of Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response, SOAR used in automation of tasks that prove mundane to orchestrate effective responses to incidents.
Automated Remediation: Automatically remediate to quickly respond to threats identified
Automated Workflow: Develop and orchestrate automated workflows to achieve better effectiveness
Watchlist

Management: Create and manage watchlists to filter and prioritize alerts

Use Cases: Determine the appropriate place in the process where watchlists are to be applied to assure threat detection and response.

Dynamic Watchlist: Learn how one can create and update a dynamic watchlist in feeds of real time.

UEBA

UEBA: Utilize user and entity behavior analytics to detect suspicious activity and improve monitoring to assure better security.

Behavioral Insights: Track the behavior of both users and entities to prevent any potential insider threats

Anomaly Detection: Apply anomaly detection techniques to understand better strange patterns and activity.

Reinforcing Threat Intelligence Capabilities

Threat Intelligence Feeds: Subscribe to and ingest threat intelligence feeds, knowing when emerging threats happen your way.

Using Threat Intelligence: Threat intelligence in Microsoft Sentinel - to build up detections and response activities.

Custom Threat Intelligence: Create and administer custom threat intelligence indicators.

Hands-On Labs with Real-World Experience

Hands-on labs that are created around the real world, embracing rules creation for analytics, incident investigations, and threat hunting.
Advanced Functionalities: More about Jupyter Notebooks, advantages of using Sentinel as Code, and getting the best out of the platform.
Lab Experiments: Conduct lab experiments to enforce knowledge and bring the theory into practice.
Integrated Role and Permission Summary

Security Management: Leverage the role and permission experience in Microsoft Sentinel to ensure the right order for access management as well as overall improvement of security.
Role-Based Access Control: Use the access control based on the appropriate role using RBAC.
Permission Management: Manage correct assignment of users and groups to appropriate roles.
Why take this course?

By the end of this course, you will be hands-on exposed and acquire deep knowledge about Microsoft Sentinel, which will place you as a proficient professional in the cybersecurity domain. Do you have a goal to propel forward your professional journey or to boost the security posture of your organization? This course helps you with all the necessary capabilities and expertise for that purpose.
Join us!

Diving into Microsoft Sentinel and enhancing the cybersecurity skill. The course will guide you down the path of mastering threat detection and response with the help of expert guidance combined with real-world scenarios and hands-on labs.
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