Welcome to Skylines Academy – the place for you to learn all-thing Azure security!
By far one of the most important elements of having a cloud environment is making sure it is secure. Join students from all over the world and enroll in the AZ-500 course by Skylines Academy because it is a one-stop-shop for learning about Azure security and passing the AZ-500 exam – setting you on your path to becoming an Azure security guru.
Skylines Academy Master Instructor & Co-Founder, Nick Colyer, leads you through this AZ-500 course, which has received a 5 star average rating from thousands of students:
5 Star Rating!
Student Reviews for the Azure Security Technologies Course by Nick Colyer:
“I just would like to say a massive thank you for your course and all the resources you shared for AZ-500. I have been meaning to do it for a while and have been taking the Skylines Academy course during lockdown. Super clear explanations and really practical demos. I passed this afternoon!”
“Great presentation and good content. Thank you.”
“I signed up for a couple of other online courses prior to taking Nick’s AZ-500 course and I wish I would have come to Skylines Academy first. Thanks to Nick & team, I’m the proud owner of the Azure Security Engineer Associate badge.”
Course Description
Properly securing resources while making them available to users that require access is a constant concern within an IT and cloud environment. This course will explore how to manage identities, provide role-based access, and secure data within an Azure ecosystem.
During your journey, Skylines Academy will lead you through a series of sections, modules, and demos to prepare you for taking, and ultimately passing, the Microsoft Azure AZ-500 exam.
During this course, you will learn how to:
· Understand the Azure Security ecosystem
· Create, manage, and maintain Azure Active Directory (AAD) Workloads
· Secure your environment with Privileged Identity Management & Tenant Security
· Deploy a secure Network
· Deploy secure Virtual Machines (VMs)
· Secure Containers
· Implement a Governance framework and Role-Based Access Controls (RBAC)
· Operate in a secure manner
· Secure Data Services
Requirements:
· You’ll need to spin up a free Azure account for a more hands-on experience
· We recommend you take the AZ-900 course and exam to form foundational knowledge of the Azure platform
· Previous knowledge of data center technology areas such as compute, network, and storage is highly recommended
· Drive to learn about cloud and Microsoft Azure
Course Curriculum
- 2.1. Lecture: Azure Active Directory (AD) Overview (3:12)
- 2.2. Demo: Create Azure AD Tenant (5:09)
- 2.3. Demo: Move Subscription to another Directory (3:39)
- 2.4. Demo: Create Users and Groups (5:12)
- 2.5. Demo: Self Service Password Reset (4:01)
- 2.6. Lecture: AD Connect Overview (4:49)
- 2.7. Demo: Implementing AD Connect (6:03)
- 2.8. Demo: Monitoring with AD Connect Health (4:13)
- 2.9. Lecture: AD Authentication Options (10:09)
- 2.10. Lecture: SSO and MFA (3:12)
- 2.11. Lecture: Service Principals (1:40)
- 2.12. Demo: Create a Service Principal (4:15)
- 2.13. Demo: App Registration (6:42)
- 2.14. Lecture: Identity Protection (3:16)
- 2.15. Demo: Configure Identity Protection (7:03)
- 4.1. NEW! Lecture: Network Overview (11:36)
- 4.2. NEW! Demo: Create Network in Portal (5:46)
- 4.3a. NEW! Demo: Create VNets and Subnets with Powershell (9:25)
- 4.3b. NEW! Artifact: PowerShell Script - NetworkDemo.ps1
- 4.4. NEW! Lecture: VNet Peering and Connectivity (7:04)
- 4.5. NEW! Demo: VNet Peering (6:12)
- 4.6. NEW! Lecture: Routing (4:28)
- 4.7. NEW! Demo: User Defined Routes (Route Tables) (7:02)
- 4.8. NEW! Lecture: Internet and DNS (4:36)
- 4.9. NEW! Demo: Private DNS (10:44)
- 4.10. NEW! Demo: Public DNS (4:10)
- 4.11. Lecture: Network Security Overview (5:26)
- 4.12. Lecture: Network Security Groups (NSGs) (6:48)
- 4.13. NEW! Demo: Create and Configure a NSG (10:44)
- 4.14. NEW! Lecture: Azure Load Balancing Services (14:35)
- 4.15. NEW! Demo: Create and Configure an Azure Load Balancer (8:01)
- 4.16. NEW! Demo: Configure App Gateway (7:39)
- 4.17. NEW! Lecture: Azure Front Door (6:07)
- 4.18. NEW! Demo: Azure Front Door (9:47)
- 4.19. Lecture: Azure Firewall (3:28)
- 4.20. Demo: Configure Azure Firewall (21:50)
- 4.21. Lecture: Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) (5:40)
- 4.22. Demo: Configure DDoS (3:31)
- 4.23. Demo: Network Watcher (12:36)
- 4.24. Lecture: Azure Bastion (6:36)
- 5.1. NEW! Azure VMs Overview (11:49)
- 5.2. NEW! Demo - Deploy VM from Portal (14:01)
- 5.3a. NEW! Demo: Deploy VM from PowerShell (9:39)
- 5.3b. NEW! Artifact: Azure VM.ps1
- 5.4. NEW! Lecture: Availability Sets and Zones (6:04)
- 5.5. NEW! Demo: Availability Sets and Zones (7:13)
- 5.6. NEW! Lecture: VM Storage (7:25)
- 5.7. NEW! Demo: Add Disk (2:58)
- 5.8. NEW! Lecture: VM Disk Caching (1:25)
- 5.9. NEW! Demo: VM Disk Caching (3:28)
- 5.10. Lecture: VM Security Best Practices (8:13)
- 5.11. Lecture: Azure Disk Encryption (7:27)
- 5.12. Demo: Create Key Vault for Disk Encryption (2:56)
- 5.13. Demo: Configure Disk Encryption on Windows (4:33)
- 5.14. Demo: Security Center and VM Management (9:01)
- 5.15. Demo: VM Hardening in Security Center (Endpoint Protection) (5:58)
- Please provide feedback! (0:34)
- 6.0. Lecture: Containers Overview (6:27)
- 6.1. Demo: Install Docker and Git for Windows (4:12)
- 6.2. Demo: Prepare Application for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) (4:26)
- 6.3. Demo: Create Azure Container Registry (7:07)
- 6.4. Demo: Create Kubernetes Cluster (7:00)
- 6.5. Demo: Run Application on Kubernetes (8:12)
- 6.6. NEW! Demo: Securing the Container Registry (4:26)
- 6.7. NEW! Lecture/Demo: Container Security: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) (2:56)
- 6.8. NEW! Lecture: Container Scanning (1:52)
- 9.1. Lecture: Azure SQL Services (4:22)
- 9.2. Demo: Creating an Azure SQL Database (9:09)
- 9.3. Lecture: Design Auditing and Caching Strategies (5:01)
- 9.4. Demo: SQL Long Term Backup Retention (1:54)
- 9.5. Lecture: Cosmos DB (2:57)
- 9.6. Lecture: Cosmos DB Consistency Levels (3:30)
- 9.7. Lecture: Azure Data Lake Store Overview (3:36)
- 9.8. Demo: Implement Security for Azure Data Lake Store (3:17)
- 9.9. Lecture: Types of Data (2:17)
Instructor Bio:
Nick Colyer has over 25 years of experience in the IT Industry and currently works as a Chief Cloud Architect for AHEAD, LLC in Chicago, IL.
Nick is a passionate teacher of technology and is certified as a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT). Thousands of students have already trusted Nick with their IT training, and his courses routinely receive the highest reviews globally.
You can regularly find Nick at community events and on Twitter (@vnickc).
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