Securing Windows Server 2016

Description

MS-20744 – Securing Windows Server 2016

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 ensure that administrators can perform only the tasks that they need to, when they need to.

This course also details how you can mitigate malware threats, identify security issues by using auditing and the Advanced Threat Analysis feature in Windows Server 2016, secure your virtualization platform, and use new 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 USES ONLY DIGITAL CURRICULUM

PREREQUISITES

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.

DETAILED CLASS SYLLABUS

MODULE 1: ATTACKS, BREACH DETECTION, AND SYSINTERNALS TOOLS

• Understanding attacks
• Detecting breaches
• Examining activity with the Sysinternals tool

MODULE 2: PROTECTING CREDENTIALS AND PRIVILEGED ACCESS

• Understanding user rights
• Computer and service accounts
• Protecting credentials
• Privileged-Access Workstations and jump servers
• Local administrator-password solution

MODULE 3: LIMITING ADMINISTRATOR RIGHTS WITH JUST ENOUGH ADMINISTRATION

• Understanding JEA
• Verifying and deploying JEA

MODULE 4: PRIVILEGED ACCESS MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATIVE FORESTS

• ESAE forests
• Overview of Microsoft Identity Manager
• Overview of JIT administration and PAM

MODULE 5: MITIGATING MALWARE AND THREATS

• Configuring and managing Windows Defender
• Restricting software
• Configuring and using the Device Guard feature
• Deploying and using the EMET

MODULE 6: ANALYZING ACTIVITY WITH ADVANCED AUDITING AND LOG ANALYTICS

• Overview of auditing
• Advanced auditing
• Windows PowerShell auditing and logging

MODULE 7: DEPLOYING AND CONFIGURING ADVANCED THREAT ANALYTICS AND MICROSOFT OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT SUITE

• Deploying and configuring ATA
• Deploying and configuring Microsoft Operations Management Suite

MODULE 8: SECURE VIRTUALIZATION INFRASTRUCTURE

• Guarded Fabric
• Shielded and encryption-supported virtual machines

MODULE 9: SECURING APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT AND SERVER-WORKLOAD INFRASTRUCTURE

• Using SCM
• Introduction to Nano Server
• Understanding containers

MODULE 10: PLANNING AND PROTECTING DATA

• Planning and implementing encryption
• Planning and implementing BitLocker

MODULE 11: OPTIMIZING AND SECURING FILE SERVICES

• File Server Resource Manager
• Implementing classification management and file-management tasks
• Dynamic Access Control

MODULE 12: SECURING NETWORK TRAFFIC WITH FIREWALLS AND ENCRYPTION

• Understanding network-related security threats
• Understanding Windows Firewall with Advanced Security
• Configuring IPsec
• Datacenter Firewall

MODULE 13: SECURING NETWORK TRAFFIC

• Network-related security threats and connection-security rules
• Configuring advanced DNS settings
• Examining network traffic with Microsoft Message Analyzer
• Securing SMB traffic, and analysing SMB traffic

MODULE 14: UPDATING WINDOWS SERVER

• Overview of WSUS
• Deploying updates by using WSUS