Studying towards Cybersecurity Architect
vaughan mason - 2022-04-19Exam Date
May the 4th be with you……. 2022/05/04
Exam Guide
Topic Name
Design a Zero Trust strategy and architecture (30–35%)
Build an overall security strategy and architecture
- identify the integration points in an architecture by using Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architecture (MCRA)
- translate business goals into security requirements
- translate security requirements into technical capabilities, including security services, security products, and security processes
- design security for a resiliency strategy
- integrate a hybrid or multi-tenant environment into a security strategy
- develop a technical and governance strategy for traffic filtering and segmentation
Design a security operations strategy
- design a logging and auditing strategy to support security operations
- develop security operations to support a hybrid or multi-cloud environment
- design a strategy for SIEM and SOAR
- evaluate security workflows
- evaluate a security operations strategy for incident management lifecycle
- evaluate a security operations strategy for sharing technical threat intelligence
Design an identity security strategy
Note: includes hybrid and multi-cloud
- design a strategy for access to cloud resources
- recommend an identity store (tenants, B2B, B2C, hybrid)
- recommend an authentication strategy
- recommend an authorization strategy
- design a strategy for conditional access
- design a strategy for role assignment and delegation
- design security strategy for privileged role access to infrastructure including identitybased firewall rules, Azure PIM
- design security strategy for privileged activities including PAM, entitlement management, cloud tenant administration
Evaluate Governance Risk Compliance (GRC) technical strategies and security operations strategies (20–25%)
Design a regulatory compliance strategy
- interpret compliance requirements and translate into specific technical capabilities (new or existing)
- evaluate infrastructure compliance by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- interpret compliance scores and recommend actions to resolve issues or improve security
- design implementation of Azure Policy
- design for data residency requirements
- translate privacy requirements into requirements for security solutions
Evaluate security posture and recommend technical strategies to manage risk
- evaluate security posture by using benchmarks (including Azure security benchmarks, ISO 2701, etc.)
- evaluate security posture by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud
- evaluate security posture by using Secure Scores
- evaluate security posture of cloud workloads
- design security for an Azure Landing Zone
- interpret technical threat intelligence and recommend risk mitigations
- recommend security capabilities or controls to mitigate identified risks
Design security for infrastructure (20–25%)
Design a strategy for securing server and client endpoints
NOTE: includes hybrid and multi-cloud
- specify security baselines for server and client endpoints
- specify security requirements for servers, including multiple platforms and operating systems
- specify security requirements for mobile devices and clients, including endpoint protection, hardening, and configuration
- specify requirements to secure Active Directory Domain Services
- design a strategy to manage secrets, keys, and certificates
- design a strategy for secure remote access
Design a strategy for securing SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS services
- specify security baselines for SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS services
- specify security requirements for IoT workloads
- specify security requirements for data workloads, including SQL, Azure SQL Database, Azure Synapse, and Azure Cosmos DB
- specify security requirements for web workloads, including Azure App Service
- specify security requirements for storage workloads, including Azure Storage
- specify security requirements for containers
- specify security requirements for container orchestration
Design a strategy for data and applications (20–25%)
Specify security requirements for applications
- specify priorities for mitigating threats to applications
- specify a security standard for onboarding a new application
- specify a security strategy for applications and APIs
Design a strategy for securing data
- specify priorities for mitigating threats to data
- design a strategy to identify and protect sensitive data
- specify an encryption standard for data at rest and in motion
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