Advance your knowledge of architecting and evaluating cybersecurity services to tackle day-to-day challenges
Key Features
- Gain a deep understanding of all topics covered in the SC-100 exam
- Benefit from practical examples that will help you put your new knowledge to work
- Design a zero-trust architecture and strategies for data, applications, access management, identity, and infrastructure
Book Description
SC-100: Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect Expert exam preparation guide is a comprehensive guide that will help cybersecurity professionals design and evaluate Microsoft cloud services cybersecurity architecture.
Complete with hands-on tutorials, projects and self-assessment questions, this easy-to-follow guide will teach you everything you need to pass the SC-100 exam, as well as how to design and evaluate a cybersecurity architecture in the Microsoft cloud.
This book will take you through designing a strategy for a cybersecurity architecture and evaluating governance, risk, and compliance of the architecture. This will include cloud-only and hybrid infrastructures, teaching you how to protect them using the principles of zero trust, evaluate security operations, and the overall security posture. To make sure that you take the SC-100 with confidence, the last chapter of this book will let you test your knowledge with a mock exam and practice questions.
By the end of this book, you will know how to plan, design, and evaluate cybersecurity for Microsoft cloud and hybrid infrastructures, and pass SC-100 with flying colours.
What you will learn
- Design a Zero Trust strategy and architecture
- Evaluate Governance Risk Compliance (GRC) technical strategies and security operations strategies
- Design security for infrastructure
- Design a strategy for data and applications
- Learn everything you need to pass the SC-100 with ease
- Use mock exams and sample questions to prepare for the structure of the exam
Who This Book Is For
This book is for a wide variety of cybersecurity professionals - from security engineers and cybersecurity architects to Microsoft 365 administrators, user and identity administrators, infrastructure administrators, cloud security engineers, and other IT professionals preparing to take the SC-100. It's also a good resource for those designing cybersecurity architecture without preparing for the exam. To get started, you'll need a solid understanding of the fundamental services within Microsoft 365, Azure, along with security, compliance, and identity capabilities in Microsoft and hybrid architectures.
Table of Contents
- Cybersecurity in the Cloud
- Build an Overall Security Strategy and Architecture
- Design a Security Operations Strategy
- Design an Identity Security Strategy
- Design a Regulatory Compliance Strategy
- Evaluate Security Posture and Recommend Technical Strategies to Manage Risk
- Design a Strategy for Securing Server and Client Endpoints
- Design a Strategy for Securing SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS
- Specify Security Requirements for Applications
- Design a Strategy for Securing Data
- Mock Exam and Practice Questions