Exam Ref SC-100 Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect

by Diogenes, Yuri; Young, Sarah; Simos, Mark; Rodriguez, Gladys

• ISBN13: 9780137997305
• ISBN10: 0137997302
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780137997374
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2023-03-05
• Publisher: Microsoft Press
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Summary

Prepare for Microsoft Exam SC-100 and demonstrate your real-world mastery of skills and knowledge needed to design and evolve cybersecurity strategy for all aspects of enterprise architecture. Designed for experienced IT professionals, this Exam Ref focuses on critical thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the Microsoft Certi?ed: Cybersecurity Architect Expert level.

Focus on the expertise measured by these objectives:

• Design a Zero Trust strategy and architecture
• Evaluate Governance Risk Compliance (GRC) technical strategies and security operations strategies
• Design a strategy for data and applications
• Recommend security best practices and priorities

This Microsoft Exam Ref:

• Organizes its coverage by exam objectives
• Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you
• Assumes you have advanced security engineering experience and knowledge and experience with hybrid and cloud implementations

About the Exam

Exam SC-100 focuses on the knowledge needed to build overall security strategy and architecture; design strategies for security operations, identity security, and regulatory compliance; evaluate security posture; recommend technical strategies to manage risk; design strategies to secure server endpoints, client endpoints, and SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS services; specify application security requirements; design data security strategy; recommend security best practices based on Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architecture and Azure Security Benchmarks; use the Cloud Adoption Framework to recommend secure methodologies; use Microsoft Security Best Practices to recommend ransomware strategies.

About Microsoft Certi?cation

The Microsoft Certi?ed: Cybersecurity Architect Expert certi?cation credential demonstrates your ability to plan and implement cybersecurity strategy that meets business needs and protects the organization’s mission and processes across its entire enterprise architecture. To ful?ll your requirements, pass this exam and earn one of these four prerequisite certi?cations: Microsoft Certi?ed: Azure Security Engineer Associate; Microsoft Certi?ed: Identity and Access Administrator Associate; Microsoft365 Certi?ed: Security Administrator Associate; Microsoft Certi?ed: Security Operations Analyst Associate.

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Author Biography

Yuri Diogenes, MSC Master of science in cybersecurity intelligence and forensics investigation from UTICA College, currently working on his PhD in Cybersecurity Leadership from Capitol Technology University. Yuri has been working at Microsoft since 2006, and currently he is a Principal PM Manager for the CxE Microsoft Defender for Cloud Team. Yuri has published a total of 29 books, mostly around information security and Microsoft technologies. Yuri is also a Professor at EC-Council University where he teaches at the Bachelor in Cybersecurity Program. Yuri also has an MBA and many IT/Security industry certifications, such as CISSP, MITRE ATT&CK® Cyber Threat Intelligence Certified, E|CND, E|CEH, E|CSA, E|CHFI, CompTIA Security+, CySA+, Network+, CASP and CyberSec First Responder. You can follow Yuri on Twitter at @ yuridiogenes.

Mark Simos is Lead Cybersecurity Architect for Microsoft where he leads the development of cybersecurity reference architectures, best practices, reference strategies, prescriptive roadmaps, CISO workshops, and other guidance to help organizations meet cybersecurity and digital transformation goals. Mark is co-host of the Azure Security Podcast and actively contributes to open standards and other publications such as the Zero Trust Commandments, The Open Group Zero Trust Core Principles, NIST Guide for Cybersecurity Event Recovery (800-184), NIST Guide to Enterprise Patch Management (800-40), Microsoft Digital Defense Report, and Microsoft Security blogs. Mark also co-chairs the Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) working group at The Open Group and has presented numerous conferences including Black Hat USA, RSA Conference, Gartner Security & Risk Management, Microsoft BlueHat, Microsoft Ignite, and Financial Executives International.

Sarah Young is a Senior Cloud Security Advocate at Microsoft and a CNCF Ambassador with over a decade of experience in security across Europe, the US and Asia. Sarah is an experienced public speaker and has presented on a range of IT security and technology topics at industry events and holds numerous industry qualifications including CISSP, CCSP, CISM and Azure Solutions Architect and has previously co-authored Microsoft Press technical books. She is also a co-host of the Azure Security Podcast. Sarah has also won the Security Champion award at the Australian Women in Security Awards. She is an active supporter of both local and international security and cloud native communities. You can follow Sarah on Twitter @_sarahyo, although expect many dog pictures alongside security content.

Gladys Rodriguez is Principal Cybersecurity Engineer with over 25 years in the Information Technology field. As part of the Mission Engineering team, Gladys has helped embed existing security capabilities within Microsoft developed products/services. She has also helped create new security functionality for customers to enable zero trust in their environment. Recently, Gladys has been involved in helping develop zero trust strategies for Operational Technology used in Critical Infrastructure with special focus in aerospace solutions. Gladys is co-host of the Azure Security Podcast for both English and Spanish version. She has also contributed to publications such as the Microsoft Zero Trust publications, NIST SP 800-207, Zero Trust Architecture, Microsoft Exam SC-100: Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect and others. Gladys also spends a lot of time mentoring and sharing her knowledge with others to help them get more involved in the cybersecurity space.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1      Build an overall security strategy and architecture

CHAPTER 2      Design a security operations strategy

CHAPTER 3      Design an identity security strategy

CHAPTER 4      Design a regulatory compliance strategy

CHAPTER 5      Evaluate security posture and recommend technical strategies to manage risk

CHAPTER 6      Design a strategy for securing server and client endpoints

CHAPTER 7      Design a strategy for securing SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS services

CHAPTER 8      Specify security requirements for applications

CHAPTER 9      Design a strategy for securing data

CHAPTER 10    Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architectures and Microsoft cloud security benchmark best practices

CHAPTER 11    Recommend a secure methodology by using the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)

CHAPTER 12    Recommend a ransomware strategy by using Microsoft Security Best Practices