20744 - Securing Windows Server 2016
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Course Overview
Course Length: 5 days
Description:
This course teaches IT professionals how they can enhance the security of the IT infrastructure that they administer. This course begins by emphasizing the importance of assuming that network breaches have occurred already, and then teaches you how to protect administrative credentials and rights to ensure that administrators can perform only the tasks that they need to, when they need to.
This course also details how you can mitigate malware threats, identify security issues by using auditing and the Advanced Threat Analysis feature in Windows Server 2016, secure your virtualization platform, and use new deployment options, such as Nano server and containers to enhance security. The course also explains how you can help protect access to files by using encryption and dynamic access control, and how you can enhance your network’s security.
Audience: This course is for IT professionals who need to administer Windows Server 2016 networks securely. These professionals typically work with networks that are configured as Windows Server domain-based environments, with managed access to the Internet and cloud services.
Students who seek certification in the 70-744 Securing Windows server exam also will benefit from this course.
Prerequisites: Students should have at least two years of experience in the IT field and should have:
- Completed courses 740, 741, and 742, or the equivalent.
- A solid, practical understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, User Datagram Protocol (UDP), and Domain Name System (DNS).
- A solid, practical understanding of Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) principles.
- A solid, practical understanding of Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization fundamentals.
- An understanding of Windows Server security principles.
What You're Going To Learn
- Secure application development and a server workload infrastructure
- Manage security baselines
- Configure and manage just enough and just-in-time (JIT) administration
- Manage data security
- Configure Windows Firewall and a software-defined distributed firewall
- Secure network traffic
- Secure your virtualization infrastructure
- Manage malware and threats
- Configure advanced auditing
- Manage software updates
- Manage threats by using Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA) and Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS)
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Course Outline
1. Attacks, Breach Detection, and Sysinternals Tools
- Overview of Breach Detection
- Using the Sysinternals Tools to Detect Breaches
2. Protecting Credentials and Privileged Access
- Understanding User Rights
- Computer and Service Accounts
- Protecting Credentials
- Understanding Privileged-Access Workstations and Jump Servers
- Deploying a Local Administrator-Password Solution
3. Limiting Administrator Rights with Just Enough Administration (JEA)
- Understanding JEA
- Configuring and Deploying JEA
4. Privileged Access Management and Administrative Forest
- Understanding Enhanced Security Administrative Environment (ESAE) Forests
- Overview of Microsoft Identity Manager (MIM)
- Implementing JIT and Privileged Access Management by Using MIM
5. Mitigating Malware and Threats
- Configuring and Managing Windows Defender
- Using Software Restricting Policies (SRPs)
- Configuring and Using Device Guard
- Using and Deploying the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET)
6. Analyzing Activity by Using Advanced Auditing and Log Analytics
- Overview of Auditing
- Understanding Advanced Auditing
- Configuring Windows PowerShell Auditing and Logging
7. Deploying and Configuring Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA) and Operations Management Suite (OMS)
- Overview of Advanced Threat Analytics
- Understanding OMS
8. Securing Your Virtualization and Infrastructure
- Overview of Guarded Fabric VMs
- Understanding Shielded and Encryption-Supported VMs
9. Securing Application Development and Server-Workload Infrastructure
- Using Security Compliance Manager
- Introduction to Nano Server
- Understanding Containers
10. Planning and Protecting Data
- Planning and Implementing Encryption
- Planning and Implementing BitLocker
11. Optimizing and Securing File Services
- Introduction to FSRM
- Implementing Classification Management and File-Management Tasks
- Understanding Dynamic Access Control (DAC)
12. Securing Network Traffic with Firewalls and Encryption
- Understanding Windows Firewall with Advanced Security
- Configuring IPsec
- Datacenter Firewall
13. Securing Network Traffic
- Network-Related Security Threats and Connection-Security Rules
- Configuring Advanced DNS Settings
- Examining Network Traffic with Microsoft Message Analyzer
- Securing Server Message Block (SMB) Traffic and Analyzing SMB Traffic
14. Updating Windows Server
- Overview of Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
- Deploying Updates by Using WSUS
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