Coursera

Secure Your Applications (Coursera)

Offered by Microsoft,

Microsoft Azure provides a comprehensive suite of security tools and services to help you safeguard your organization's data and applications. Secure Your Applications is the right course for you if you want to become an Azure security engineer.

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In this course, you will learn how Azure Key Vault helps to safeguard cryptographic keys and secrets that cloud applications and services use using defense in depth strategy.
You will get acquainted with practice on how to create and manage access to secrets, certificates, and keys.
This course will thoroughly give you knowledge about the Microsoft identity platform, which enables you to configure and keep track of secure access to an application. You will also understand the important factors while developing web apps using user sign in, API calls, daemon, and noninteractive apps.
You will have the chance to learn about app registration and the various permissions that the Microsoft identity platform supports. You will also learn to set up an app registration, build an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant, and register an application with App registrations.
In this course, you will explore Microsoft Graph services and learn to configure Microsoft Graph permissions. You will gain an understanding of managed identities in detail. You will also learn to configure and deploy web app certificates.
This course is part of the Microsoft Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500) Professional Certificate.

What you'll learn

Describe the purpose of Azure Key Vault and its importance in defense in depth strategy
Deploy and manage Key Vault certificates, secrets, and keys to secure access to your applications
Explain app registration, types of permissions supported by the Microsoft identity platform and create an Azure AD tenant.
Configure Microsoft Graph permissions and web app certificates

Syllabus

Azure Key Vault
Module 1
Azure Key Vault is a centralized cloud service for storing application secrets such as encryption keys, certificates, and server-side tokens. In this module, you will learn about the guidelines for using Azure Key Vault, configuring Key Vault access, and managing access to secrets, certificates, and keys. You will also gain an understanding about Key Vault safety and recovery features and Azure Hardware Security Module.

Application security with the Microsoft identity platform
Module 2
The Microsoft identity platform helps you build applications your users and customers can sign in to using their Microsoft identities or social accounts. In this module, you will learn how to configure and monitor secure access to an application with Microsoft Identity Platform. You will learn how to use Azure AD with single-page applications. You will gain an understanding about key considerations for web apps that sign in users and call APIs and with Daemon and non-interactive apps.

Application security with Azure AD and other Microsoft tools
Module 3
In this module, you will learn about app registration and the different types of permissions supported by Microsoft identity platform. You will learn how to register an application with App Registration, create an Azure AD tenant, and configure an app registration. You will explore Microsoft Graph services and learn how to configure Microsoft Graph permissions. You will gain an understanding of managed identities and how to configure and enable managed identities. You will also learn how to configure and deploy web app certificates.

Project and graded assessment
Module 4
In this module, you will attempt a course-level ungraded project and graded assessment.

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