SC-200 Security Operations Analyst Associate-Microsoft

Overview

As a candidate for this certification, you’re a Microsoft security operations analyst who reduces organizational risk by:

• Rapidly remediating active attacks in cloud and on-premises environments.
• Advising on improvements to threat protection practices.
• Identifying violations of organizational policies.

As a security operations analyst, you:

• Perform triage.
• Respond to incidents.
• Mitigate risk by using exposure management.
• Hunt for threats by using threat intelligence.
• Use KQL for reporting, detections, and investigations

You also monitor, identify, investigate, and respond to threats in cloud and on-premises environments by using:

• Microsoft Defender XDR
• Security Copilot
• Microsoft Sentinel
• Microsoft Defender for Cloud workload protections
• Third-party security solutions

You collaborate with business and security leadership to define security standards for the organization. You work with other roles across the digital enterprise to implement the standards, to enhance the security posture of an organization, and to raise security awareness.

The Microsoft Security Operations Analyst collaborates with organizational stakeholders to secure information technology systems for the organization. Their goal is to reduce organizational risk by rapidly remediating active attacks in the environment, advising on improvements to threat protection practices, and referring violations of organizational policies to appropriate stakeholders. Responsibilities include threat management, monitoring, and response by using a variety of security solutions across their environment. The role primarily investigates, responds to, and hunts for threats using Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender XDR, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and third-party security products. Since the Security Operations Analyst consumes the operational output of these tools, they are also a critical stakeholder in the configuration and deployment of these technologies.