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
