This course provides IT Security Professionals with the knowledge and skills needed to implement security controls, maintain an organization’s security posture, and identify and remediate security vulnerabilities. This course includes security for identity and access, platform protection, data and applications, and security operations.

The Microsoft Azure Security Technologies exam is intended for individuals who work in a security engineer role. Individuals are to be subject matter experts in implementing, secure controls and threat protection, managing identity and access and protecting data, applications, networks in cloud and hybrid environments as part of an end-to-end infrastructure.

A Microsoft Azure Security Engineer maintains the security posture, identifies and remediates vulnerabilities using a number of security tools, implements threat protection and responds to security incident escalations. They also serve as part of a larger team dedicated to cloud-based management and secure and may also secure hybrid environments as part of an end-to-end infrastructure.

Individuals must have at least six months of hands-on experience working and security Azure cloud environments. In addition, individuals must be familiar with scripting and automation and have a deep understanding of networking, virtualization and cloud N-tier architecture. They must also have experience with Azure products and services, as well as other Microsoft products and services.