Microsoft Defender for Cloud Academy

Welcome to the Microsoft Defender for Cloud Academy. Explore Microsoft Defender for Cloud video sessions delivered directly to partners, detailed learning paths, certifications, and further resources.

Sessions

An introduction session for Microsoft Defender for Cloud, exploring key security challenges facing the industry, Defender for Cloud's core features, its comprehensive protection across varying workloads, along with a demo showcasing baseline capabilities for all your Azure, on-premises, and multicloud (Amazon AWS and Google GCP) resources.

In this session, we will explore how to best prepare your organization for Microsoft Defender for Cloud adoption. Learn about key areas to consider when planning, overall pricing, enhanced security features, and a demo for a hands-on walk-through.

Learn about the critical importance of cloud workload protection, highlighting multi-cloud and hybrid environment offerings. This session will help you to gain an understanding about Microsoft Defenders for DNS, Key Vault, Servers, Storage, SQL Servers, and more. In addition, examine vulnerability assessments, adaptive application controls & network hardening, Just-in-Time (JIT) access, file integrity, fileless attack detection, and security alerts. Lastly, explore powerful features within Azure Lighthouse!

Protect your multi-cloud and on-premises environments with Defender for Cloud's CSPM capabilities, including analysis of the Secure Score, compliance assessments, and Azure Security Benchmark, along with security posture and regulatory compliance demos for deep-dive technical learning.

Develop skills necessary to automate security with Defender for Cloud & Logic Apps across Azure Integration Services. Discover easy hybrid integration capabilities, triggers, actions, error handling, concurrency control, and scheduling executions, followed by a thorough demo within Microsoft Defender for Cloud.

Keeping Up

Learning Path

See the Microsoft Defender for Cloud Readiness Resources:

Resources for Microsoft Defender for Cloud
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See the Information & Data Protection Readiness Resources for further upskilling:

Resources for Information and Data Protection
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See the Threat Protection Readiness Resources for further upskilling:

Resources for Microsoft Threat Protection
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