N° 20744 : Securing Windows Server 2016

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Secure Windows Server
• Secure application development and a server workload infrastructure
• Manage security baselines
• Configure and manage just enough and just-in-time (JIT) administration
• Manage data security
• Configure Windows Firewall and a software-defined distributed firewall
• Secure network traffic
• Secure your virtualization infrastructure
• Manage malware and threats
• Configure advanced auditing
• Manage software updates
• Manage threats by using Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA) and Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS)

Module 1: Breach detection and using the Sysinternals tools

In this module, students will learn about breach detection, attack types and vectors, cybercrime, and how you can analyse your system’s activity by using the Sysinternals tool suite.

• Understanding attacks
• Detecting breaches
• Examining activity with the Sysinternals tool

Module 2: Protecting credentials and privileged access

This module explains how you can configure user rights and security options, protect credentials by using credential guard, implement privileged-access workstations, and manage and deploy a local administrator-password solution so that you can manage passwords for local administrator accounts.

• Understanding user rights
• Computer and service accounts
• Protecting credentials
• Privileged-Access Workstations and jump servers
• Local administrator-password solution

Module 3: Limiting administrator rights with Just Enough Administration

This module explains how to deploy and configure Just Enough Administration (JEA).

Understanding JEA

• Configuring and deploying JEA

Module 4: Privileged Access Management and administrative forests

This module explains the concepts of Enhanced Security Administrative Environment (ESAE) forests, Microsoft Identity Manager (MIM), and Just In Time (JIT) Administration, or Privileged Access Management.

• ESAE forests
• Overview of Microsoft Identity Manager
• Overview of JIT administration and PAM

Module 5: Mitigating malware and threats

This module explains how to configure the Windows Defender, AppLocker, and Device Guard features.

• Configuring and managing Windows Defender
• Restricting software
• Configuring and using the Device Guard feature
• Deploying and using the EMET

Module 6: Analysing activity with advanced auditing and log analytics

This module explains how to use advanced auditing and Windows PowerShell transcripts.

• Overview of auditing
• Advanced auditing
• Windows PowerShell auditing and logging

Module 7: Deploying and configuring Advanced Threat Analytics and Microsoft Operations Management Suite

This module explains the Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics tool and the Microsoft Operations Management suite (OMS), and details how you can use them to monitor and analyse the security of a Windows Server deployment.

• Deploying and configuring ATA
• Deploying and configuring Microsoft Operations Management Suite

Module 8: Secure Virtualization Infrastructure

This module explains how to configure Guarded Fabric virtual machines (VMs), including the requirements for shielded and encryption-supported VMs.

• Guarded Fabric
• Shielded and encryption-supported virtual machines

Module 9: Securing application development and server-workload infrastructure

This module details the Security Compliance Manager, including how you can use it to configure, manage, and deploy baselines. Additionally, students will learn how to deploy and configure Nano Server, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Windows Server Containers.

• Using SCM
• Introduction to Nano Server
• Understanding containers

Module 10: Planning and protecting data

This module explains how to configure Encrypting File System (EFS) and BitLocker drive encryption to protect data at rest.

• Planning and implementing encryption
• Planning and implementing BitLocker

Module 11: Optimizing and securing file services

This module explains how to optimize file services by configuring File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) and Distributed File System (DFS). Students will learn how to protect a device’s data by using encryption or BitLocker. Students also will learn how to manage access to shared files by configuring Dynamic Access Control (DAC).

• File Server Resource Manager
• Implementing classification management and file-management tasks
• Dynamic Access Control

Module 12: Securing network traffic with firewalls and encryption

This module explains the firewalls that are present on Windows Server.

• Understanding network-related security threats
• Understanding Windows Firewall with Advanced Security
• Configuring IPsec
• Datacenter Firewall

Module 13: Securing network traffic

This module explains how to secure network traffic and how to use Microsoft Message Analyzer, Server Message Block (SMB) encryption, and Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC).

• Network-related security threats and connection-security rules
• Configuring advanced DNS settings
• Examining network traffic with Microsoft Message Analyzer
• Securing SMB traffic, and analysing SMB traffic

Module 14: Updating Windows Server

This module explains how to use Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) to deploy updates to Windows Servers and clients.

• Overview of WSUS
• Deploying updates by using WSUS

This course is for IT professionals who need to administer Windows Server 2016 networks securely. These professionals typically work with networks that are configured as Windows Server domain-based environments, with managed access to the Internet and cloud services.

Students who seek certification in the 70-744 Securing Windows server exam also will benefit from this course.

Students should have at least two years of experience in the IT field and should have:

• Completed courses 740, 741, and 742, or the equivalent.
• A solid, practical understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, User Datagram Protocol (UDP), and Domain Name System (DNS).
• A solid, practical understanding of Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) principles.
• A solid, practical understanding of Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization fundamentals.
• An understanding of Windows Server security principles.