Secure Your Data at Rest

Overview

Secure Your Data at Rest is the fifth course in the Microsoft Azure Security Engineer Associate Professional Certificate training program. This course teaches storage security, data sovereignty, database monitoring, encryption, data masking, and using Defender for Cloud for advanced threat protection. You must secure data at rest as this will safeguard sensitive information, prevent unauthorized access, meet regulatory compliance, and ensure data confidentiality and integrity. By the end of this course, you will be able to: - Deploy shared access signatures (SAS). - Generate SAS tokens. - Manage storage account access keys and key rollover. - Manage Azure Active Directory storage authentication. - Implement storage service encryption. - Configure blob data retention policies. - Configure Azure Files authentication. - Enable SQL database authentication with Azure Active Directory. - Monitor your database. - Enable and monitor database auditing. - Implement data discovery and classification. - Enable Defender for SQL for advanced threat protection. - Secure your data with dynamic data masking. - Implement transparent data encryption. - Deploy an Always Encrypted implementation.

Syllabus

Storage security

In this module, you will gain an understanding about storage security and data sovereignty and how data sovereignty is achieved in Azure. You will learn how to deploy shared access signatures (SAS) and generate and test SAS tokens. You will also understand about storage access policies and how to create these policies. You will learn how to manage storage account access keys and key rollover.

Azure Storage and Azure Files

In this module, you will learn how to configure Azure AD user account authentication for storage. You will learn how to implement storage service encryption - while the data is at rest and in transit. You will explore the difference between blobs and files. You will also learn how to configure blob data retention policies, Azure files authentication, and a storage account to accept requests from secure connections only by enabling the secure transfer required property. You will also understand how to secure a storage endpoint.

Database security and monitoring

In this module, you will learn to configure which users and applications have access to your SQL databases. You will also learn how to block access to your servers using SQL database firewalls. You will learn how to discover, classify, and audit the use of your data. You will learn to encrypt and protect your data while is it stored in the database. You will gain an understanding about vulnerability assessments, data discovery and classification, and auditing. You will also learn to configure and lock down your SQL database on Azure to protect your corporate data while it is stored. Finally, you will learn how to secure your Azure SQL database to keep your data secure and diagnose potential security concerns as they happen.

Defender for Cloud and data masking and encryption

In this module, you will gain understanding of Defender for Cloud, how it works, its basic and enhanced features, and when to use Defender for Cloud. You will learn how to use data encryption, data masking, firewalls, and auditing to protect databases from attacks. You will also learn how to secure your data in transit, at rest, and on display. You will learn to configure dynamic data masking and implement transparent data encryption. You will also learn to deploy an always encrypted implementation.