20744 Securing Windows Server 2016

This five-day, instructor-led Windows Server 2016 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. 

Module 1: Attacks, breach detection, and Sysinternals tools
In this module, students will learn about breach detection, attack types and vectors, cybercrime, and how you can analyse your system’s activity by using the Sysinternals tool suite.
Lessons

Understanding attacks
Detecting breaches
Examining activity with the Sysinternals tool

Lab : Basic breach detection and incident response strategies

Identifying attack types
Exploring the Sysinternals tools

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Describe breach detection.
Describe how to detect a breach by using the Sysinternals tools.

Module 2: Protecting credentials and privileged access
This module explains how you can configure user rights and security options, protect credentials by using credential guard, implement privileged-access workstations, and manage and deploy a local administrator-password solution so that you can manage passwords for local administrator accounts.
Lessons

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

Lab : Implementing user rights, security options, and group-managed service accounts

Configuring security options
Configuring restricted groups
Delegating privileges
Creating and managing group managed service accounts (MSAs)
Configuring the Credential Guard feature
Locating problematic accounts

Lab : Configuring and deploying LAPs

Installing and configuring LAPs
Deploying and testing LAPs

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Understand user rights.
Describe computer and service accounts.
Help protect credentials.
Understand privileged-access workstations and jump servers.
Understand how to use a local administrator-password solution.

Module 3: Limiting administrator rights with Just Enough Administration
This module explains how to deploy and configure Just Enough Administration (JEA).
Lessons

Understanding JEA
Verifying and deploying JEA

Lab : Limiting administrator privileges with JEA

Creating a role-capability file
Creating a session-configuration file
Creating a JEA endpoint
Connecting and testing a JEA endpoint
Deploying a JEA configuration to another computer

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Understand JEA.
Verify and deploy JEA.

Module 4: Privileged access management and administrative forests
This module explains the concepts of Enhanced Security Administrative Environment (ESAE) forests, Microsoft Identity Manager (MIM), and Just In Time (JIT) Administration, or Privileged Access Management.
Lessons

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

Lab : Limiting administrator privileges with PAM

Layered approach to security
Configuring trust relationships and shadow principals
Requesting privileged access
Managing PAM roles

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Understand ESAE forests.
Understand MIM.
Understand JIT administration and PAM.

Module 5: Mitigating malware and threats
This module explains how to configure the Windows Defender, AppLocker, and Device Guard features.
Lessons

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

Lab : Securing applications by using AppLocker, Windows Defender, Device Guard Rules, and the EMET.

Configuring Windows Defender
Configuring AppLocker
Configuring Device Guard
Deploying and using EMET

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Configure and manage Windows Defender.
Restrict software.
Configure and use the Device Guard feature.
Use and deploy the EMET.

Module 6: Analyzing activity with advanced auditing and log analytics
This module explains how to use advanced auditing and Windows PowerShell transcripts.
Lessons

Overview of auditing
Advanced auditing
Windows PowerShell auditing and logging

Lab : Configuring advanced auditing

Configuring auditing of file-system access
Auditing domain sign-ins
Managing advanced audit policy configuration
Windows PowerShell logging and auditing

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Understanding auditing.
Understand advanced auditing.
Audit and log Windows PowerShell.

Module 7: Deploying and configuring Advanced Threat Analytics and Microsoft Operations Management Suite
This module explains the Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics tool and the Microsoft Operations Management suite (OMS), and details how you can use them to monitor and analyse the security of a Windows Server deployment.
Lessons

Deploying and configuring ATA
Deploying and configuring Microsoft Operations Management Suite

Lab : Deploying ATA and Microsoft Operations Management Suite

Preparing and deploying ATA
Preparing and deploying Microsoft Operations Management Suite

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Deploy and configure ATA.
Deploy and configure Microsoft Operations Management Suite.

Module 8: Secure Virtualization Infrastructure
This module explains how to configure Guarded Fabric virtual machines (VMs), including the requirements for shielded and encryption-supported VMs.
Lessons

Guarded Fabric
Shielded and encryption-supported virtual machines

Lab : Guarded Fabric with administrator-trusted attestation and shielded VMs

Deploying a guarded fabric with administrator-trusted attestation
Deploying a shielded VM

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Understand Guarded Fabric VMs.
Understand shielded and encryption-supported VMs.

Module 9: Securing application development and server-workload infrastructure
This module details the Security Compliance Manager, including how you can use it to configure, manage, and deploy baselines. Additionally, students will learn how to deploy and configure Nano Server, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Windows Server Containers.
Lessons

Using SCM
Introduction to Nano Server
Understanding containers

Lab : Using SCM

Configuring a security baseline for Windows Server 2016
Deploying a security baseline for Windows Server 2016

Lab : Deploying and Configuring Nano Server

Deploying, managing, and securing Nano Server
Deploying, managing, and securing Windows container

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Understand SCM.
Describe Nano Server.
Understand containers.

Module 10: Planning and protecting data
This module explains how to configure Encrypting File System (EFS) and BitLocker drive encryption to protect data at rest.
Lessons

Planning and implementing encryption
Planning and implementing BitLocker

Lab : Protecting data by using encryption and BitLocker

Encrypting and recovering access to encrypted files
Using BitLocker to protect data

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Plan and implement encryption.
Plan and implement BitLocker.

Module 11: Optimizing and securing file services
This module explains how to optimize file services by configuring File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) and Distributed File System (DFS). Students will learn how to protect a device’s data by using encryption or BitLocker. Students also will learn how to manage access to shared files by configuring Dynamic Access Control (DAC).
Lessons

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

Lab : Quotas and file screening

Configuring File Server Resource Manager quotas
Configuring file screening and storage reports

Lab : Implementing Dynamic Access Control

Preparing for implementing Dynamic Access Control
Implementing Dynamic Access Control
Validating and remediating Dynamic Access Control

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Understand File Server Resource Manager.
Implement classification management and file-management tasks.
Understand Dynamic Access Control

Module 12: Securing network traffic with firewalls and encryption
This module explains the firewalls that are present on Windows Server.
Lessons

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

Lab : Configuring Windows Firewall with Advanced Security

Creating and testing inbound rules
Creating and testing outbound rules
Creating and testing connection security rules

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Understand network-related security threats.
Understand Windows Firewall with Advanced Security.
Configure IPsec.
Understand Datacenter Firewall.

Module 13: Securing network traffic
This module explains how to secure network traffic and how to use Microsoft Message Analyzer, Server Message Block (SMB) encryption, and Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC).
Lessons

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

Lab : Securing DNS

Configuring and testing DNSSEC
Configuring DNS policies and RRL

Lab : Microsoft Message Analyzer and SMB encryption

Installing and using Message Analyzer
Configuring and verifying SMB encryption on SMB shares

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Configure advanced DNS settings.
Examine network traffic with Message Analyzer.
Secure SMB traffic, and analyze SMB traffic.

Module 14: Updating Windows Server
This module explains how to use Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) to deploy updates to Windows Servers and clients.
Lessons

Overview of WSUS
Deploying updates by using WSUS

Lab : Implementing update management
Implementing the WSUS server role

Configuring update settings
Approving and deploying an update by using WSUS

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Understand WSUS.
Deploy updates with WSUS.

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