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Udemy

Microsoft Sentinel course with hands on sims for beginners

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Overview

Learn how to expertly administer Microsoft Sentinel (including SOAR and SIEM) with hands on experience!

What you'll learn:
  • Learn the concepts and perform hands on activities needed to master Microsoft Sentinel (SOAR and SIEM)
  • Gain a tremendous amount of knowledge involving Microsoft Sentinel (SOAR and SIEM)
  • Learn using hands on simulations on how to manage Microsoft Sentinel (SOAR and SIEM)
  • Learn how to set up your own test lab for practicing the concepts!

We really hope you'll agree, this training is way more than the average course on Udemy!

Have access to the following:

  • Training from an instructor of over 20 years who has trained thousands of people and also a Microsoft Certified Trainer

  • Lecture that explains the concepts in an easy to learn method for someone that is just starting out with this material

  • Instructor led hands on and simulations to practice that can be followed even if you have little to no experience

TOPICS COVEREDINCLUDINGHANDSONLECTUREANDPRACTICETUTORIALS:

Introduction

  • Welcome to the course

  • Understanding the Microsoft Environment

  • Foundations of Active Directory Domains

  • Foundations of RAS, DMZ, and Virtualization

  • Foundations of the Microsoft Cloud Services

  • DONT SKIP: The first thing to know about Microsoft cloud services

  • DONT SKIP: Azure AD is now renamed to Entra ID

  • Questions for John Christopher

Performing hands on activities

  • DONT SKIP: Using Assignments in the course

  • Creating a free Microsoft 365 Account

  • Getting your free Azure credit

Understanding and setting up a Microsoft Sentinel Workspace

  • Overview of Microsoft Sentinel

  • Configuring a Microsoft Sentinel workspace

  • Managing roles regarding Sentinel

  • Managing log types, log retention, and data storage in Sentinel

Working with data connectors and ingestion in Microsoft Sentinel

  • Microsoft Sentinel data source identification

  • Setting up connectors for ingesting data into Microsoft Sentinel

  • Connecting Sentinel with Microsoft 365 Defender and Defender for Cloud

  • Common Event Format (CEF) and Syslog event collections

  • Windows Security Event Collection setup in Microsoft Sentinel

  • Managing threat intelligence connectors in Microsoft Sentinel

  • Working with custom log tables

Using analytics rules in Microsoft Sentinel

  • Understanding analytics rules in Microsoft Sentinel

  • Fusion rule configuration

  • Security analytics rules

  • Working with scheduled query rules in Microsoft Sentinel

  • Custom scheduled query rules

  • Working with near-real-time (NRT) analytics rules

  • Content hub analytics rules

  • Watchlists in Microsoft Sentinel

  • Threat indicators in Microsoft Sentinel

Classification, normalization & security orchestration automated response (SOAR)

  • Working with using entities for classifying and analyzing data

  • Advanced Security Information Model(ASIM) queries with Microsoft Sentinel

  • ASIM parser management

  • Using automation rules

  • Using playbooks in Microsoft Sentinel

  • Automation rule triggering using analytic rules

  • Alert and incident playbook triggering

Dealing with Incidents and Workbooks for analyzes and interpretation of data

  • Incident generation in Microsoft Sentinel

  • Understanding the concepts of triaging incidents in Sentinel

  • Microsoft Sentinel incident investigation

  • How to respond to Microsoft Sentinel incidents

  • Multi-workspace incident investigation

  • Workbook template customization and management

  • Implementing custom workbooks in Microsoft Sentinel

  • Working with advanced visualizations

Threat hunting and entity behavior analytics in Microsoft Sentinel

  • MITRE ATT&CK attack vectors in Microsoft Sentinel

  • Using hunting queries from the content gallery

  • Hunting query customization

  • Data investigations with hunting bookmarks

  • Using Livestream to monitor hunting queries

  • How archived log data can be retrieved in Microsoft Sentinel

  • Search job management in Microsoft Sentinel

  • Entity Behavior Analytics settings

  • Entity page investigation of threats

  • Anomaly detection analytics rules in Microsoft Sentinel

Conclusion

  • Cleaning up your lab environment

  • Getting a Udemy certificate

  • BONUS Where do I go from here?

Taught by

John Christopher

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