This course runs for a duration of 5 Days.
The class will run daily from 9:00am CST to 5:00pm CST.
Class Location: Knowledge Transfer - Eagan, MN.
About this course
This five-day, instructor-led course teaches information technology (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.
This course is for IT professionals who need to securely administer Windows Server 2016 networks. 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.
Secure Windows Server.
Protect credentials and implement privileged access workstations.
Limit administrator rights with Just Enough Administration.
Manage privileged access.
Mitigate malware and threats.
Analyze activity with advanced auditing and log analytics.
Deploy and configure Advanced Threat Analytics and Microsoft Operations Management Suite.
Configure Guarded Fabric virtual machines (VMs).
Use the Security Compliance Toolkit (SCT) and containers to improve security.
Plan and protect data.
Optimize and secure file services.
Secure network traffic with firewalls and encryption.
Module 1: Attacks, breach detection, and Sysinternals tools
This module frames the course so that students are thinking about security in environments where the infrastructure’s basis is predominantly Microsoft products. The module begins with teaching students about the “assume breach” philosophy and getting them to understand the different types of attacks that can occur, including attack timelines and vectors. Additionally, it gets students thinking about key resources, how they respond when they detect an incident, and how an organization’s direct needs and legislative requirements dictate its security policy.
Lessons
Lab : Basic breach detection and incident response strategies
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe the types of attacks that can occur.
Explain how to detect security breaches.
Module 2: Protecting credentials and privileged access
This module covers user accounts and rights, computer and service accounts, credentials, Privileged Access Workstations, and the Local Administrator Password Solution. In this module, students will learn about configuring user rights and security options, protecting credentials by using Credential Guard, implementing Privileged Access Workstations, and managing and deploying Local Administrator Password Solution to manage local administrator account passwords.
Lessons
Lab : Implementing user rights, security options, and group managed service accounts
Lab : Configuring and deploying LAPs
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Configure user rights.
Implement computer and service accounts.
Protect credentials.
Describe how to configure Privileged Access Workstations and jump servers.
Module 3: Limiting administrator rights with Just Enough Administration
This module explains how to deploy and configure Just Enough Administration (JEA), which is an administrative technology that allows students to apply role-based access control (RBAC) principles through Windows PowerShell remote sessions.
Lessons
Lab : Limiting administrator privileges with JEA
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Understand JEA.
Module 4: Privileged access management and administrative forests
This module explains the concepts of Enhanced Security Administrative Environment (ESAE) forests, Microsoft Identity Manager (MIM), and Just In Time (JIT) Administration, or Privileged Access Management (PAM).
Lessons
Lab : Limiting administrator privileges with PAM
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe ESAE forests.
Describe MIM.
Module 5: Mitigating malware and threats
This module explains how to use tools such as Windows Defender, Windows AppLocker, Microsoft Device Guard, Windows Defender Application Guard, and Windows Defender Exploit Guard.
Lessons
Lab : Securing applications with Windows Defender, AppLocker, and Device Guard Rules
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Configure and manage Windows Defender.
Use software restriction policies and AppLocker.
Configure and use the Device Guard feature.
Module 6: Analyzing activity with advanced auditing and log analytics
This module provides an overview of auditing, and then goes into detail about how to configure advanced auditing and Windows PowerShell auditing and logging.
Lessons
Lab : Configuring advanced auditing
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe auditing.
Understand advanced auditing.
Module 7: Deploying and configuring Advanced Threat Analytics and Microsoft Operations Management Suite
This module explains the Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics tool and the Microsoft Operations Management suite (OMS). It also explains how you can use them to monitor and analyse the security of a Windows Server deployment. You will also learn about Microsoft Azure Security Center, which allows you to manage and monitor the security configuration of workloads both on-premises and in the cloud.
Lessons
Lab : Deploying ATA, Microsoft Operations Management Suite, and Azure Security Center
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Deploy and configure ATA.
Deploy and configure Microsoft Operations Management Suite.
Deploy and configure Azure Security Center.
Module 8: Secure Virtualization Infrastructure
This module explains how to configure Guarded Fabric VMs, including the requirements for shielded and encryption-supported VMs.
Lessons
Lab : Guarded fabric with Admin-trusted attestation and shielded VMs
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Configure the guarded fabric.
Module 9: Securing application development and server-workload infrastructure
This module describes the SCT, which is a free, downloadable set of tools that you can use to create and apply security settings. You will also learn about improving platform security by reducing the size and scope of application and compute resources by containerizing workloads.
Lessons
Lab : Using SCT
Lab : Deploying and configuring containers
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Install SCT, and create and deploy security baselines.
Configure Windows and Hyper-V containers in Windows Server 2016.
Module 10: Planning and protecting data
This module explains how to configure Encrypting File System (EFS) and BitLocker drive encryption to protect data at rest. You will also learn about extending protection into the cloud by using Azure Information Protection.
Lessons
Lab : Protecting data by using encryption and BitLocker
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Plan and implement encryption.
Plan and implement BitLocker.
Plan and implement Azure Information Protection.
Module 11: Optimizing and securing file services
This module explains how to optimize file services by configuring File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) and Distributed File System (DFS). Students also will learn how to manage access to shared files by configuring Dynamic Access Control (DAC).
Lessons
Lab : Quotas and file screening
Lab : Implementing Dynamic Access Control
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe File Server Resource Manager.
Implement classification and file management tasks.
Implement Dynamic Access Control.
Module 12: Securing network traffic with firewalls and encryption
This module explains how you can use Windows Firewall as an important part of an organization’s protection strategy. It explains the use of Internet Protocol security (IPsec) to encrypt network traffic and to establish security zones on your network. You will also learn about the Datacenter Firewall feature that you can use to help protect your on-premises virtual environments.
Lessons
Lab : Configuring Windows Firewall with Advanced Security
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe network-related security threats and how to mitigate them.
Configure Windows Firewall with Advanced Security.
Configure IPsec.
Describe Datacenter Firewall.
Module 13: Securing network traffic
This module explores some of the Windows Server 2016 technologies that you can use to help mitigate network-security threats. It explains how you can configure DNSSEC to help protect network traffic, and use Microsoft Message Analyzer to monitor network traffic. The module also describes how to secure Server Message Block (SMB) traffic.
Lessons
Lab : Securing DNS
Lab : Microsoft Message Analyzer and SMB encryption
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Configure advanced DNS settings.
Use the Message Analyzer.
Secure SMB traffic.
Students should have at least two years of experience in the IT field and should have: