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Implement Platform Protection

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18 hours to complete
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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
4.6

(10 reviews)

Intermediate level

Recommended experience

18 hours to complete
3 weeks at 6 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Describe defense in depth.

  • Review core security concepts and approaches that form part of the defense in depth strategy.

  • Implement and configure an Azure Application Gateway to protect your perimeter.

  • Configure and deploy the Azure Web Application Firewall.

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There are 4 modules in this course

In this module, you will learn about some of the perimeter level security tools provided by Azure to help prevent attacks to your Azure solutions. You will explore the concepts of defense in depth and zero trust to secure Azure perimeter. You will learn about network security and firewalls and tools to strengthen network protection in Azure. Azure virtual network security and enabling and configuring a distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection implementation is also covered in this module. You will learn how to deploy Azure Firewall implementation and configure and deploy the Azure Firewall Manager. The module also covers how you can secure your solutions using VPNs, Network virtual appliances (NVAs), and the Azure network virtual appliances firewall architecture. Finally, you will learn how to configure VPN forced tunneling.

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17 videos14 readings4 assignments1 discussion prompt

Network security is an integral part of a defense in depth strategy. In this module, you will learn how to deploy and configure network security groups, create application security groups, and enable service endpoints. You will learn how to configure service endpoint services, deploy private links, and integrate private endpoints with other services. You will gain an understanding of encrypting traffic with SSL by using Application Gateway and learn about the various components of an application gateway. The module also covers implementing an Azure application gateway, configuring back-end pools for encryption, and configuring Application Gateway listener for encryption. You will learn how to deploy a web application firewall. You will also learn how to configure and manage Azure front door to define, manage, and monitor the global routing for your web traffic by optimizing for best performance and instant global failover for high availability.

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12 videos12 readings4 assignments

In this module, you will learn how to use Host security as part of your defense strategy. You will learn how to configure and manage Host security to keep application host machines secure and how to configure and deploy Endpoint Protection. You will learn how to deploy a privileged access strategy for devices and privileged workstations and secure access to your virtual machines. You will gain an appreciation of the practice of layered security. You will learn how to configure and manage security for Azure Container Instances (ACI). You will learn about the Azure Container Registry (ACR) and how to enable Azure Container Registry authentication. You will learn about security for serverless compute and Azure App service, and how Kubernetes deployments and Azure Kubernetes Service works. You will understand how to configure Azure Kubernetes Service networking and deploy Azure Kubernetes Service storage. You will also learn how to secure authentication to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) with Active Directory and manage access to AKS using Azure role-based access controls.

What's included

25 videos14 readings4 assignments

In this module, you will attempt a course-level ungraded project and graded assessment.

What's included

4 videos1 reading1 assignment1 peer review2 discussion prompts

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