Introduzione

This five-day, instructor-led 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 help ensure that administrators can perform only the tasks that they need to, when they need to.

This course explains how you can use auditing and the Advanced Threat Analysis feature in Windows Server 2016 to identify security issues. You will also learn how to mitigate malware threats, secure your virtualization platform, and use 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.

Obiettivi del corso

After completing this course, students will be able to:

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

Secure network traffic by using DNSSEC and Message Analyzer

Prerequisiti

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

Struttura del Corso

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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe the types of attacks that can occur

Identifying attack types

Explain how to detect security breaches

Explain how to examine activity by using the Sysinternals suite of tools

Lab : Basic breach detection and incident response strategies

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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Understanding and configure user rights

Implement computer and service accounts

Protect credentials

Describe how to configure Privileged Access Workstations and jump servers

Configure the Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS)

Configuring user rights and account-security options

Delegating privileges

Creating group Managed Service Accounts

Locating problematic accounts

Installing and configuring LAPs

Deploying and testing LAPs

Lab : Implementing user rights, security options, and group managed service accounts

Lab : Configuring and deploying LAPs

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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Understand JEA.

Verify and deploy JEA

Creating a role-capability file

Creating a session-configuration file

Creating a JEA endpoint

Connecting and testing a JEA endpoint

Deploying a JEA configuration to another computer

Lab : Limiting administrator privileges with 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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe ESAE forests.

Describe Microsoft Identity Manager (MIM)

Understand JIT administration and PAM

Layered approach to security

Configure trust relationships and shadow principals

Request privileged access

Manage PAM roles

Lab : Limiting administrator privileges with PAM

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

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

Lab : Securing applications with Windows Defender, AppLocker, and Device Guard Rules

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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe auditing

Auditing domain sign-ins

Understand and manage advanced auditing

Configuring the auditing of file system access

Configure Windows PowerShell auditing and logging

Lab : Configuring 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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Prepare, Deploy and configure ATA

Prepare, Deploy and configure Microsoft Operations Management Suite

Deploy and configure Azure Security Center

Lab : Deploying ATA, Microsoft Operations Management Suite, and 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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Configure and Deploy the Guarded fabric

Describe shielded and encryption-supported virtual machines (VMs)

Lab : Guarded fabric with Admin-trusted attestation and shielded VMs

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

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

Configure and deploy a security baseline for Windows Server 2016

Deploying and managing a Windows container

Lab : Using SCT

Lab : Deploying and configuring containers

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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Plan and implement encryption

Plan and implement BitLocker

Plan and implement Azure Information Protection

Encrypting and recovering access to encrypted files

Using BitLocker to protect data

Lab : Protecting data by using encryption and BitLocker

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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe and Configure File Server Resource Manager

Implement classification and file management tasks

Prepare and Implement Dynamic Access Control

Validate and remede Dynamic Access Control

Configure file screening and storage reports

Lab : Quotas and file screening

Lab : Implementing 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

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

Create and teste inbound rules

Create and teste outbound rules

Create and teste connection security rules

Lab : Configuring Windows Firewall with Advanced Security

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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Configure advanced DNS settings

Examine network traffic with Message Analyzer

Secure and analyze SMB traffic

Configure and teste DNSSEC

Configure guring DNS policies and RRL

Install and use the Message Analyzer

Configure and verify SMB encryption on SMB shares

Lab : Securing DNS

Lab : Microsoft Message Analyzer and SMB encryption