Azure Security Monitoring and Operations

Monitor, Detect, and Respond to Azure Threats! Build security operations skills using Azure Monitor, Defender for Cloud, and Microsoft Sentinel. Azure Security Monitoring and Operations teaches you how to gain and maintain visibility across Azure environments, detect threats, investigate security incidents, and automate response—core skills for anyone supporting cloud security operations. The course opens with Azure Monitor, where you'll configure Log Analytics workspaces, diagnostic settings, activity logs, data collection rules, and alerts to establish centralized monitoring coverage across Azure resources. In the second module, you'll use Microsoft Defender for Cloud to assess your organization's security posture. You'll work with Secure Score, security recommendations, regulatory compliance dashboards, and workload protection plans—including just-in-time VM access—to reduce exposure and prioritize remediation. The final module introduces Microsoft Sentinel, Azure's cloud-native SIEM and SOAR platform. You'll connect data sources, build workbooks for threat visibility, create analytics rules that generate incidents, investigate alerts, configure playbooks for automated response, and perform threat hunting to identify evidence of compromise. Throughout the course, practical demonstrations and scenario-based role plays give you hands-on experience investigating security alerts, prioritizing risks, and recommending remediation actions in realistic Azure environments. Who this is for: Security analysts, cloud administrators, and IT professionals who support security operations in Microsoft Azure and want to build monitoring, detection, and incident response skills.