Stay ahead of cyberthreats with security skill buildings
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"Help your organization accelerate its security skill-building journey and secure a resilient future."
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The Security hub on Microsoft Learn offers technical guidance and resources for planning and implementing modern cybersecurity strategy, architecture, processes, and technology for aspiring, new, and experienced cybersecurity professionals. You can also find resources and training offerings for building foundational and advanced cybersecurity skills and for earning Microsoft Credentials. Microsoft Learn provides guidance to help you tackle security challenges while preparing for a competitive future.
Stay ahead of cyberthreats with security skill buildings
Thought leadership
"Help your organization accelerate its security skill-building journey and secure a resilient future."
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"Learn what generative AI is and how to use Microsoft Copilot for Security to quickly analyze and mitigate threats using natural language."
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"Implement information protection and data loss prevention by using Microsoft Purview."
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"Implement retention, eDiscovery, and Communication Compliance in Microsoft Purview."
Earn your credentialBuild your foundational knowledge and essential skills to better collaborate with security colleagues, or find what you need to get your cybersecurity career started. Whether you're a new IT professional, a student, or a business leader interested in getting the most from Microsoft Security, compliance, and identity solutions, you can quickly grow your knowledge and capabilities.
Describe the basic concepts of cybersecurity
Find out how you can protect yourself and your organization against cyberthreats and cyberattacks, and explore cybersecurity concepts in this Learning Path.
Learn moreTake the Microsoft Security Virtual Training Day: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals
Join this training to discover basic concepts, like identity and access management and compliance management. Gain foundational knowledge of privacy and of data governance, protection, and management solutions.
Learn moreEarn the Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals Certification​
If you're familiar with Azure and Microsoft 365, demonstrate your foundational knowledge of Microsoft Security, compliance, and identity concepts across these cloud-based solutions.
Learn moreAccess technical documentation and learn to use Zero Trust principles to modernize your cybersecurity strategy, architecture, processes, and technology.
Learn about the Zero Trust security model and follow Microsoft's adoption methodology to rapidly modernize your security posture, secure remote and hybrid work, protect sensitive data, and prevent or reduce business damage from a breach.
Use pre-built trackers and assessment tools for implementing end-to-end security. Customize these for your organization. Track based on business scenarios or by pillar (identity, devices, apps, and data).
Use the Secure methodology provided in the Cloud Adoption Framework to secure each phase of your organization's adoption journey to cloud workloads in Azure.
Use security guidance in the Well-Architected Framework while building new apps and workloads in Azure (or to modernize existing Azure workloads). Security is balanced with reliability, performance, costs, and other concerns.
Learn about security services on Azure and best practices for identity, networking, data, applications, and monitoring.
Learn about security strategy, attack types, and Zero Trust principles through workshop decks the Microsoft Customer Success Unit refer to as a Security Adoption Framework. Explore how Microsoft security capabilities map to high-level architecture.
Explore the Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architectures (MCRA), and review diagrams that describe how Microsoft Security capabilities integrate with Microsoft and third-party platforms.
Follow our step-by-step Plans to help accelerate your skill-building journey and meet your learning goals. Our curated, expert content is easy to follow, with daily and weekly milestones, plus automated nudges to help keep you focused and motivated on expanding your capabilities and credentials.
Explore the fundamentals of identity and access management, authentication and authorization, and Zero Trust principles.
Discover the basics of implementing Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, and start building your security operations skills. Learn about detecting, investigating, and responding to cyberthreats.
Build basic skills and gain foundational knowledge to help you improve the overall cybersecurity for your organization. Learn about security policies, Zero Trust architecture, and more.
Build foundational knowledge to effectively manage permissions, environments, and data policies. Explore Microsoft Purview and Azure resources to help enhance overall security.
Build your skills with this intermediate Plan, as you learn to support smarter, real-time access decisions for all identities and cloud-managed endpoints through Microsoft Entra and Intune.
In this intermediate Plan, learn how to minimize risk and safeguard sensitive information and find out how to support compliance by using Microsoft Purview.
In this intermediate Plan, use Microsoft Security Copilot with Microsoft Security solutions Microsoft Purview and Microsoft Sentinel to manage, protect, and govern information in AI-driven environments.
Showcase your advanced cybersecurity skills with Microsoft Credentials for Security. Whether you want verifiable skill sets aligned to security job roles or specific to security projects, Microsoft Certifications and Microsoft Applied Skills are complementary credentials that can help you and your organization take on new opportunities. Explore Certifications, like Security Operations Analyst or Cybersecurity Architect, and check out Applied Skills for real-world scenarios that use Microsoft Sentinel or Microsoft Defender.
Take advantage of additional resources like training events, tailored learning experiences with Training Services Partners, thought leadership articles, blog posts, and more.
Join the conversation in the Security, Compliance, and Identity community, with cybersecurity discussions and posts that explore key security topics.
Discover Training Services Partners around the world that offer security training solutions in formats and styles to help you meet your learning goals.
Learn to protect your data and organization with Microsoft Security solutions, including identity and access management and compliance management.
Take advantage of the security training resources and opportunities for team skill-building on Microsoft Learn for Organizations.
When implementing AI capabilities for your organization, consider the inherent responsibility for various roles to safely use AI.
Gain practical insights on how to safeguard your organization's AI with guidance and best practices from the industry-leading Microsoft AI Red Team.
Read the latest Microsoft cybersecurity news, from recent work by Microsoft to strengthen protection, to helping keep user data safe around the world.
Stay up to date with the most recent Security Copilot developments, along with current releases, known issues, and plans for updates.