Secure Your Applications

Microsoft via Coursera

Go to Course: https://www.coursera.org/learn/secure-your-applications-azure

Introduction

Describe the purpose of Azure Key Vault and its importance in defense in depth strategy

Deploy and manage Key Vault certificates, secrets, and keys to secure access to your applications

Explain app registration, types of permissions supported by the Microsoft identity platform and create an Azure AD tenant.

Configure Microsoft Graph permissions and web app certificates

Syllabus

Azure Key Vault

Azure Key Vault is a centralized cloud service for storing application secrets such as encryption keys, certificates, and server-side tokens. In this module, you will learn about the guidelines for using Azure Key Vault, configuring Key Vault access, and managing access to secrets, certificates, and keys. You will also gain an understanding about Key Vault safety and recovery features and Azure Hardware Security Module.

Application security with the Microsoft identity platform

The Microsoft identity platform helps you build applications your users and customers can sign in to using their Microsoft identities or social accounts. In this module, you will learn how to configure and monitor secure access to an application with Microsoft Identity Platform. You will learn how to use Azure AD with single-page applications. You will gain an understanding about key considerations for web apps that sign in users and call APIs and with Daemon and non-interactive apps.

Application security with Azure AD and other Microsoft tools

In this module, you will learn about app registration and the different types of permissions supported by Microsoft identity platform. You will learn how to register an application with App Registration, create an Azure AD tenant, and configure an app registration. You will explore Microsoft Graph services and learn how to configure Microsoft Graph permissions. You will gain an understanding of managed identities and how to configure and enable managed identities. You will also learn how to configure and deploy web app certificates.

Project and graded assessment

In this module, you will attempt a course-level ungraded project and graded assessment.