Securing Microsoft Azure Subscriptions

By Tim Warner
In this course, you will learn how to protect and provide least-privilege security for your Azure AD tenant and Azure subscription resources.
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Course info
Level
Advanced
Updated
Apr 1, 2020
Duration
2h 27m
Table of contents
Course Overview
Course Overview 1m
Configuring Microsoft Azure Subscription and Resource Permissions
RBAC Scope and Inheritance 4m Azure Resource RBAC Roles 3m Azure AD Access Elevation 2m Policy Definitions and Assignment 4m Demo: Work with RBAC in the Azure Portal 8m Azure AD RBAC Roles 2m Summary 1m Necessary Definitions 2m Azure Policy 3m Overview 4m Demo: Work with Policy in Microsoft Azure 6m
Creating Custom RBAC Roles in Microsoft Azure
The Need for Custom RBAC Roles 1m Demo: Create a Custom RBAC Role with Azure PowerShell 9m Custom Role Creation Workflow 6m Demo: Verify Custom RBAC Role Creation 2m Overview 1m Summary 1m
Identifying High-privilege External Accounts in Microsoft Azure
Demo: Test Azure AD PIM 6m Federated Identity 3m Demo: Configure Azure AD PIM 5m Summary 2m Overview 1m For Further Learning 1m Azure AD Privileged Identity Management (PIM) 10m Demo - How Azure AD B2B Works 5m Azure AD Business-to-Business (Azure AD B2B) 2m
Transferring Microsoft Azure Subscriptions between Azure AD Tenants
Transfer Azure Subscriptions between Tenants 4m Deploy a New Azure AD Tenant 3m Demo - Verify the Azure Subscription Transfer 4m Azure Subscriptions and Azure AD Tenants 5m Summary 1m Troubleshooting Azure Subscription Transfers 2m Overview 1m Demo - Transfer an Azure Subscription to the New Tenant 2m
Managing API Access to Microsoft Azure Subscriptions and Resources
Demo: Create a Service Principal 7m Demo: Create a Managed Identity 2m The Managed Identity 3m The Service Principal 5m Overview 1m Azure AD APIs 2m Programmatic Access to Azure AD 3m Demo: Grant Resource Access 7m Summary 1m
Description
Course info
Level
Advanced
Updated
Apr 1, 2020
Duration
2h 27m
Description

At the core of Azure subscription security is a thorough knowledge of least-privilege authorization. In this course, Securing Microsoft Azure Subscriptions, you will learn how to protect your Azure AD tenants and the subscriptions that trust them. First, you will touch on how to implement role-based access control for your Azure resources and Azure AD tenant. Next, you will explore how to identify and manage high-privilege external accounts in Azure AD. Finally, you will discover how to protect application programming interface (API) access to Azure AD and, by extension, to your cloud apps. When you are finished with this course, you will have a foundational knowledge of Azure subscription security that will help you as you move forward in your Azure security engineer career. Software required: Microsoft Azure subscription.

About the author
Tim Warner
About the author

Timothy Warner is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Cloud and Datacenter Management who is based in Nashville, TN.

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Section Introduction Transcripts
Section Introduction Transcripts

Course Overview
Hello, and welcome to our course, Securing Microsoft Azure Subscriptions. My name is Tim Warner, and I'm a full‑time Pluralsight author and a Microsoft MVP in Cloud and Datacenter Management. The goal of this advanced‑level course is to give the Microsoft Azure security engineer the knowledge and skills needed to govern and to provide least privilege security for their Azure AD tenants and Azure subscription resources. Some of the major topics we'll cover include configuring Azure resource and Azure AD permissions, creating custom RBAC roles, identifying high‑privilege accounts, and managing API access to Azure subscription resources. By the end of this course, you'll be well positioned to improve your organization's subscription security posture in Azure. I hope you'll join me on this journey of Azure subscription protection in our Securing Microsoft Azure Subscriptions course, at Pluralsight.

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