Essential Skills Gained

Design secure Windows Server environments.

Implement advanced auditing and threat analysis.

Configure and manage your virtualization platform.

Protect data with encryption and dynamic access control.

Format

Instructor-led
5 days with lectures and hands-on labs.

Audience

IT administrators
Network security specialists
System engineers
70-744 exam candidates

Description

This five-day, instructor-led course teaches IT professionals how they can enhance the security of the IT infrastructure that they administer. This course begins by emphasizing the importance of assuming that network breaches have occurred already, and then teaches you how to protect administrative credentials and rights to ensure that administrators can perform only the tasks that they need to, when they need to. This course also details how you can mitigate malware threats, identify security issues by using auditing and the Advanced Threat Analysis feature in Windows Server 2016, secure your virtualization platform, and use new deployment options, such as Nano server and containers to enhance security. The course also explains how you can help protect access to files by using encryption and dynamic access control, and how you can enhance your network’s security.

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Course Outline

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Module 1: Breach detection and using the Sysinternals tools

Overview of breach detection
Using the Sysinternals tools to detect breaches
Lab : Basic breach detection and incident response strategies

Module 2: Protecting credentials and privileged access

Understanding user rights
Computer and service accounts
Protecting credentials

Module 3: Limiting administrator rights with Just Enough Administration

Understanding JEA
Configuring and deploying JEA

Module 4: Privileged Access Management and administrative forests

Understanding ESAE forests
Overview of MIM
Implementing JIT and Privileged Access Management by using MIM

Module 5: Mitigating malware and threats

Configuring and managing Windows Defender
Using software restricting policies (SRPs) and AppLocker
Configuring and using Device Guard

Module 6: Analysing activity by using advanced auditing and log analytics

Overview of auditing
Understanding advanced auditing
Configuring Windows PowerShell auditing and logging

Module 7: Analysing activity with Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics feature and Operations Management Suite

Overview of Advanced Threat Analytics
Understanding OMS

Module 8: Securing your virtualization infrastructure

Overview of Guarded Fabric VMs
Understanding shielded and encryption-supported VMs

Module 9: Securing application development and server-workload infrastructure

Using Security Compliance Manager
Introduction to Nano Server
Understanding containers

Module 10: Protecting data with encryption

Planning and implementing encryption
Planning and implementing BitLocker

Module 11: Limiting access to file and folders

Introduction to FSRM
Implementing classification management and file-management tasks
Understanding Dynamic Access Control (DAC)

Module 12: Using firewalls to control network traffic flow

Understanding Windows Firewall
Software-defined distributed firewalls

Module 13: Securing network traffic

Network-related security threats and connection-security rules
Configuring advanced DNS settings
Examining network traffic with Microsoft Message Analyzer

Module 14: Updating Windows Server

Overview of WSUS
Deploying updates by using WSUS

Securing Windows Server 2016