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This article brings together the history of top picks from the Security hub organized by publication date in descending order. Explore a curated selection of noteworthy security content to inspire your security learning journey.
March 2026
| Featured date | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| March 3 | Secure AI solutions in the cloud | Gain your Microsoft Applied Skill with your understanding of Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Microsoft Foundry. |
| Join Azure Decoded on April 8th | Learn how to secure your AI workloads with Microsoft Defender for Cloud. | |
| Learn about Security Copilot agents | Enable autonomous and proactive protection with Security Copilot agents built directly into your workflow. | |
| Configure your Microsoft Sentinel Environment | Learn how data lake and graph enhance performance, context, and investigation speed in this learning path. |
February 2026
| Featured date | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| February 4 | Applied Skill: Secure AI solutions in the cloud | Gain your Microsoft Applied Skill with your understanding of Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Microsoft Foundry. |
| Applied Skill: Identities and access using Microsoft Entra | Complete this Microsoft Applied Skill to demonstrate your ability to manage identities and access in Microsoft Entra. | |
| Learn about Security Copilot agents | Use this documentation to enable autonomous and proactive protection with Security Copilot agents built directly into your workflow. | |
| Configure your Microsoft Sentinel Environment | Strengthen your Microsoft Sentinel skills to learn how data lake and graph enhance performance, context, and investigation speed in this updated learning path. |
December 2025
| Featured date | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| December 4 | Secure AI solutions in the cloud | Validate your technical skills and open doors to new possibilities of advancement with Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Microsoft Foundry. |
| Get started with identities and access using Microsoft Entra | Open doors to new possibilities of advancement by demonstrating your ability to manage identities and access in Microsoft Entra. | |
| Microsoft Security Copilot for Developers | Learn to create, publish, and test agents in Security Copilot using natural language, lite experience forms, YAMLs, and MCPs. Designed for developers to streamline security workflows. | |
| Mitigate incidents using Microsoft Defender | Learn how the Microsoft Defender portal provides a unified view of incidents from the Microsoft Defender family of products. |
November 2025
| Featured date | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| November 14 | Microsoft Ignite Skills Challenge - Secure & Govern AI with Confidence | Take the challenge, prove your skills, and lead the future of AI security. |
| Get started with identities and access using Microsoft Entra | Open doors to new possibilities of advancement by demonstrating your ability to manage identities and access in Microsoft Entra. | |
| Microsoft Security Copilot for Developers | Learn to create, publish, and test agents in Security Copilot using natural language, lite experience forms, YAMLs, and MCPs. Designed for developers to streamline security workflows. | |
| Join us November 17-21 at Microsoft Ignite | Get the security advantage you need to thrive in the era of AI. Explore our AI-first, end-to-end security platform, attend hands-on labs, get certified, connect with peers, and chat with industry experts. |
September 2025
| Featured date | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| September 30 | Get started with identities and access using Microsoft Entra | Open doors to new possibilities of advancement by demonstrating your ability to manage identities and access in Microsoft Entra. |
| Microsoft Security Copilot for Developers | Learn to create, publish, and test agents in Security Copilot using natural language, lite experience forms, YAMLs, and MCPs. Designed for developers to streamline security workflows. | |
| Join us November 17-21 at Microsoft Ignite | Get the security advantage you need to thrive in the era of AI. Explore our AI-first, end-to-end security platform, attend hands-on labs, get certified, connect with peers, and chat with industry experts. | |
| Microsoft Sentinel: the security platform for the era of agentic AI | Bringing together data, context, automation, and intelligent agents to enable defenders to protect AI end-to-end. |
August 2025
| Featured date | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| August 29 | Get started with identities and access using Microsoft Entra | Open doors to new possibilities of advancement by demonstrating your ability to manage identities and access in Microsoft Entra. |
| Stay safe with Microsoft Security Copilot | Use Security Copilot to bring the full power of OpenAI architecture to defend your organization at machine speed and scale. | |
| Join us November 17-21 at Microsoft Ignite | Get the security advantage you need to thrive in the era of AI. Explore our AI-first, end-to-end security platform, attend hands-on labs, get certified, connect with peers, and chat with industry experts. | |
| Microsoft Sentinel data lake demo | Watch the new Sentinel data lake in action and learn to uncover long-running threats, streamline investigations, and automate defenses within a unified, AI-powered SIEM experience. |
July 2025
| Featured date | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| July 23 | Strengthen Cloud Security with Microsoft Defender for Cloud | The new Microsoft Virtual Training Day is available. Learn how to apply strong, unified security measures across your cloud apps. |
| Prepare security and compliance to support Microsoft 365 Copilot | Demonstrate your ability to set up Microsoft 365 security and compliance to support Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365. | |
| Unify your data and optimize your SOC | Announcing expanded capabilities in our SIEM solution, Microsoft Sentinel, including a unified data lake and dynamic threat intelligence—now in preview. | |
| Microsoft Sentinel data lake demo | Watch the new Sentinel data lake in action and learn to uncover long-running threats, streamline investigations, and automate defenses within a unified, AI-powered SIEM experience. |
June 2025
| Featured date | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| June 16 | Connect Microsoft Sentinel to the Microsoft Defender portal | Learn how your experience may change and understand how to transition your Microsoft Sentinel environment. |
| Get started with identities and access using Microsoft Entra | Open doors to new possibilities of advancement by demonstrating your ability to manage identities and access in Microsoft Entra. | |
| GitHub Advanced Security Part 1 of 2 | Learn how to secure your code with advanced security features at every stage of your development lifecycle. | |
| Learn GitHub Advanced Security Part 2 of 2 | Gain an understanding of GitHub Advanced Security features and apply the skills in your own GitHub environment. |
May 2025
| Featured date | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| May 19 | Implement and manage data privacy solutions for compliance | Help your organization manage personal data responsibly and meet compliance requirements with this Microsoft Learn training. |
| Security for AI | Build a security posture for AI, including discovering, protecting, and governing your AI apps and data. | |
| GitHub Advanced Security Part 1 of 2 | Learn how to secure your code with advanced security features at every stage of your development lifecycle. | |
| Implement access management for apps | Take this Learning Path and explore how applications can be added to your identity and access solution with Microsoft Entra ID. |
April 2025
| Featured date | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| April 21 | Get the latest on the Secure Future Initiative | Read about the progress on our multiyear commitment to advance the way we design, build, test, and operate our Microsoft technology to ensure that our solutions meet the highest possible standards for security. |
| April 14 | Get certified as an Information Security Administrator | Take exam SC-401 to validate your ability to implement information protection, implement data loss prevention and retention, and manage risks, alerts, and activities. |
| Security for AI with Microsoft Purview & Defender for Cloud | Join us for this 4-part Learn Live series. Learn how to prepare your environment for secure AI adoption to safeguard your data and identify threats to your AI. | |
| Implement and manage data privacy solutions for compliance | Learn to help your organization manage personal data responsibly and meet compliance requirements with this Microsoft Learn training. | |
| Explore Microsoft Secure on demand | Learn why AI innovation requires AI security at Microsoft Secure, available on demand. |
March 2025
| Featured date | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| March 17 | Confidently adopt AI | Read about new innovations that secure and govern AI, protect your data, and empower your analysts with agents that relieve them of time-consuming work. |
| Security for AI with Microsoft Purview & Defender for Cloud | Watch this 4-part series and learn to prepare your environment for secure AI adoption to safeguard your data and identify threats to your AI. | |
| A Guide to Azure Well-Architected Framework's Security Pillar | Build more secure, efficient, and reliable cloud applications with the Well-Architected Framework. | |
| Cybersecurity Skilling for Technical Professionals | Learn how to secure IT systems and fundamental cybersecurity concepts to kick-start your security learning. |
February 2025
| Featured date | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| February 17 | Cybersecurity basics for non-security professionals | Help protect your data from online cyberthreats with this introductory Plan to support work or personal tasks. |
| Microsoft Security Copilot Flight School | Learn what generative AI is and how to use Copilot to quickly analyze and mitigate threats using natural language to empower your security and IT teams to protect at the speed and scale of AI. | |
| Identify and mitigate AI data security risks | Learn how to monitor AI activity, enforce security policies, and prevent unauthorized data exposure with Data Security Posture Management. | |
| Validate your critical information security skills | Read about the new Microsoft Certification and become part of your team's cybersecurity solution. |
January 2025
| Featured date | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| January 17 | Defend against cyberthreats with Microsoft Defender XDR | Validate your technical skills and open doors to new opportunities by proving your ability to detect and respond to cyberthreats. |
| Implement Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management | Learn to effectively detect, investigate, and respond to internal risks while protecting data, ensuring compliance, and maintaining employee trust. | |
| Defender for Cloud in the field | Turn possibility into reality with simplified cloud security posture management and workload protection with Microsoft Defender for Cloud. | |
| Microsoft Sentinel & Defender XDR Virtual Ninja Training | This training, based on the Ninja blogs, brings you up-to-date quickly on all things Microsoft Defender XDR. |
Older
December 13, 2024
- What is Microsoft Security Exposure Management?
- Microsoft Copilot for Security Flight School
- What is Microsoft's unified security operations platform?
- Connect Microsoft Sentinel to the Microsoft Defender portal
November 12, 2024
- Stay ahead of cyberthreats with security skill building
- Microsoft Copilot for Security Flight School
- Microsoft Applied Skills
- Microsoft Applied Skills
October 1, 2024
- AI security fundamentals
- Get started with Microsoft Copilot for Security
- Govern and protect sensitive information in the age of AI
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