Unlock the full potential of Microsoft Entra ID with this comprehensive course designed to equip you with the skills needed to manage entitlements, access reviews, and privileged access effectively. Whether you are onboarding new users or managing existing ones, this course provides the essential tools and strategies to ensure seamless and secure access to Azure resources.
Gain hands-on experience in configuring entitlement management, conducting access reviews, monitoring sign-in activities, and implementing privileged access controls. With practical exercises and real-world scenarios, you will develop a deep understanding of how to utilize Microsoft Entra ID to enhance your organization's security and operational efficiency.
Audience Profile
This course is ideal for IT professionals, system administrators, and security officers responsible for managing user access and identity governance within an organization. It is also suitable for those involved in the administration and security of Azure solutions who need to deepen their knowledge of Microsoft Entra ID.
Prerequisites
- Basic Azure administration knowledge.
- Ability to create users and groups using Microsoft Entra.
Course Outline
Module 1: Plan and implement entitlement management
- Define access packages
- Exercise create and manage a resource catalog with Microsoft Entra entitlement management
- Configure entitlement management
- Exercise add terms of use acceptance report
- Exercise manage the lifecycle of external users with Microsoft Entra identity governance
- Configure and manage connected organizations
- Review per-user entitlements
Module 2: Plan, implement, and manage access review
- Plan for access reviews
- Create access reviews for groups and apps
- Create and configure access review programs
- Monitor access review findings
- Automate access review management tasks
- Configure recurring access reviews
Module 3: Monitor and maintain Microsoft Entra ID
- Analyze and investigate sign-in logs to troubleshoot access issues
- Review and monitor Microsoft Entra audit logs
- Exercise connect data from Microsoft Entra ID to Microsoft Sentinel
- Export logs to third-party security information and event management system
- Analyze Microsoft Entra workbooks and reporting
- Monitor security posture with Identity Secure Score
Module 4: Plan and implement privileged access
- Define a privileged access strategy for administrative users
- Configure Privileged Identity Management for Azure resources
- Exercise configure Privileged Identity Management for Microsoft Entra roles
- Exercise assign Microsoft Entra roles in Privileged Identity Management
- Exercise assign Azure resource roles in Privileged Identity Management
- Plan and configure Privileged Access Groups
- Analyze Privileged Identity Management audit history and reports
- Create and manage emergency access accounts
Module 5: Explore the many features of Microsoft Entra Permissions Management
- A comprehensive experience for all cloud environments
- Get high level insights in the Permissions Management dashboard
- Knowledge check - Insights
- Dive deeper with the Analytics tab
- Knowledge check - Analytics
- Develop a better understanding of your environment with reports
- Analyze historical data with the Audit tab
- Act on your findings with the Permissions Management Remediation tab
- Knowledge check - Remediation
- Take a more proactive approach to managing with continuous monitoring
- Knowledge check - Monitoring
- Manage access to Microsoft Entra Permissions Management
- Putting it all together
