During this one-day course, students learn how to understand the challenges that organizations face in keeping modern IT environments secure, as the more distributed environments that re part of a cloud-first or hybrid world have rapidly created new security challenges for IT. Focus is given to the three key areas in the defense against attackers who target security vulnerabilities, resulting particularly from credential theft and compromised identities: Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), and Azure Active Directory Privileged Identity Management (PIM). Students learn to implement two-step verification to secure the sign-in process, as well as how to use advanced features like trusted IPs and Fraud Alerts with MFA to customize their identity access strategy. Using Privileged Identity Management, students learn how to apply just the right amount of access rights for just the right amount of time to the various administrative roles as well as to resources.

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Use Azure RBAC to grant a granular level of access based on an administrator’s assigned tasks
• Use Azure Multi-Factor Authentication to configure a strong authentication for users at sign-in
• User Azure AD Privileged Identity Management to configure access rights based on just-in-time administration.

It is recommended that students have previous experience on operation systems, virtualization, cloud infrastructure, storage structures, and networking