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Security hub

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.

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  • What is Microsoft Security Exposure Management?

    What is Microsoft Security Exposure Management?

    Documentation

    "Learn about Microsoft Security Exposure Management as a security solution that provides a unified view of security posture across company assets and workloads."

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  • Microsoft Copilot for Security Flight School

    Microsoft Copilot for Security Flight School

    Video

    "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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  • What is Microsoft's unified security operations platform?

    What is Microsoft's unified security operations platform?

    Documentation

    "Understand how Microsoft's unified security operations platform provides a single platform for end-to-end security operations (SecOps)."

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  • Connect Microsoft Sentinel to the Microsoft Defender portal

    Connect Microsoft Sentinel to the Microsoft Defender portal

    Documentation

    "Onboard Microsoft Sentinel to the Defender portal with Microsoft Defender XDR to unify capabilities like incident management and advanced hunting."

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Build foundational security skills

Build 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.

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  • Take 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.

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  • Earn 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.

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Plan and implement modern cybersecurity

Access technical documentation and learn to use Zero Trust principles to modernize your cybersecurity strategy, architecture, processes, and technology.

  • Zero Trust adoption framework

    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.

  • Zero Trust assessment and progress tracking

    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).

  • Security guidance quick links

    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.

  • Introduction to Azure security

    Learn about security services on Azure and best practices for identity, networking, data, applications, and monitoring.

  • Security adoption resources

    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.

Prove your skills with Microsoft Credentials for Security

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.

Gain specialized security skills and knowledge through Plans on Microsoft Learn

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.

Microsoft Security product documentation

Explore Microsoft Security product documentation and learn how you can keep your organization resilient and agile.

  • Microsoft Entra

    Learn more about the Microsoft Entra family of multicloud identity and network access solutions.

  • Microsoft Defender

    Explore the Microsoft Defender products and services available for your business or organization.

  • Microsoft Defender for Cloud

    Provide unified security management and advanced threat protection across hybrid cloud workloads with Microsoft Defender for Cloud.

  • Microsoft Purview

    Unlock the power of data governance, security, and compliance with the dynamic portfolio of solutions from Microsoft Purview.

  • Microsoft Sentinel

    Detect attacks, gain threat visibility, proactively hunt, and respond to threats with Microsoft Sentinel to stop them before they cause harm.

Explore other resources

Take advantage of additional resources like training events, tailored learning experiences with Training Services Partners, thought leadership articles, blog posts, and more.

  • Connect with the community

    Join the conversation in the Security, Compliance, and Identity community, with cybersecurity discussions and posts that explore key security topics.

  • Boost your team's skills

    Take advantage of the security training resources and opportunities for team skill-building on Microsoft Learn for Organizations.

  • Meet the Microsoft AI Red Team

    Gain practical insights on how to safeguard your organization's AI with guidance and best practices from the industry-leading Microsoft AI Red Team.

  • Follow Microsoft cybersecurity news

    Read the latest Microsoft cybersecurity news, from recent work by Microsoft to strengthen protection, to helping keep user data safe around the world.

  • Get the latest on Security Copilot

    Stay up to date with the most recent Security Copilot developments, along with current releases, known issues, and plans for updates.