About This Course

Securing Windows Server 2016 course covers the topic of enhancing the security of the IT infrastructure in detail. At the start, this course focuses on the importance of assuming that network breaches have occurred already, and then goes on to brief the students on how to rectify the breach and protect administrative credentials and rights to make sure that the system administrator can perform the necessary tasks to avoid such occurrences in future.

Course Duration

20 Hrs.

At course completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Secure Windows Server.
• Protect credentials and implement privileged access workstations.
• Limit administrator rights with Just Enough Administration(VMM).
• Manage privileged access.
• Mitigate malware and threats.
• Analyze activity with advanced auditing and log analytics.
• Deploy and configure Advanced Threat Analytics and Microsoft Operations Management Suite.
• Configure Guarded Fabric virtual machines (VMs).
• Use the Security Compliance Toolkit (SCT) and containers to improve security.
• Plan and protect data.
• Optimize and secure file services.
• Secure network traffic with firewalls and encryption.
• Secure network traffic by using DNSSEC and Message Analyzer.

Course Outline

Module 1: Implementing Server Hardening

Configure disk and file encryption

Implement server patching and updating solutions

Implement Control Flow Guard

Protect credentials

Create security baselines

Module 2: Secure a Virtualization Infrastructure

Implement a Guarded Fabric solution

Implement shielded and encryption –supported VM’s

Module 3: Secure a Network infrastructure

Configure windows Firewall

Implement a software-defined Distributed Firewall

Secure network traffic

Module 4: Manage Privileged Identities

Implement Just in Time administration

Implement Just Enough administration

LAPS client deployment

Module 5: Implement threat detection solution

Configure advanced audit policies

Configure the audit PNP activity policy

Install and configure Microsoft advanced threat analytics

Port Mirroring

Install and Configure ATA Gateway on a Dedicated Server

Module 6: Implement Workload specific security

Install and configure Nano Server

Configure Windows Remote Management

Windows Server 2016 and Docker

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