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Layered security architecture model and design plans

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Security Architect

Design secure systems. Lead with confidence.

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YOUR LEARNING STUDIOCloud Security Engineer Career Program

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YOU ARE HERECloud Foundations and Shared ResponsibilityCloud Service Models and Shared Responsibility

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Cloud Security Engineer Career Program

Secure Azure environments with hands-on identity, network, and data protection labs.

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Security Architect

Design secure systems. Explain risks. Make defensible architecture decisions.

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Best forExperienced IT, cloud, software, integration, and security professionals moving toward architecture

Career outcomesSecurity Architect, Cybersecurity Architect, Cloud Security Architect, Enterprise Security Architect

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Security+ and CISSP knowledge

Architecture foundations

Build the security, networking, risk, and architecture vocabulary needed to make defensible design decisions.

Security principlesNetworkingIAMRiskThreat modeling

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Cybersecurity FundamentalsVideo + reading courseOpen course Networking and Linux for SecurityVideo + reading courseOpen course CompTIA Security+ PreparationVideo + reading courseOpen course

Portfolio projectCreate a reference security architecture with trust boundaries, assets, threats, and layered controls.

02

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Engineering and secure design

Translate requirements and threats into secure application, API, identity, and infrastructure patterns.

Threat modelingOAuth/OIDCAPI securityZero TrustControl validation

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Cybersecurity Engineer Career ProgramPlanned courseView course Practical API Security: OAuth, OIDC and JWTPlanned courseView course

Portfolio projectThreat-model and redesign a multi-tier application and its APIs.

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Azure security architecture progression

Cloud architecture

Design identity, network, data, monitoring, resilience, and governance controls for cloud workloads.

Entra IDNetwork segmentationKey managementMonitoringResilience

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Cloud Security Engineer Career ProgramPlanned courseView course Azure Security Engineering — AZ-500Planned courseView course

Portfolio projectPresent a production-ready cloud security architecture and defend its tradeoffs.

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Architecture governance and portfolio

Practice architecture review, control mapping, ADRs, exceptions, resilience tradeoffs, and executive communication across application, API, identity, and cloud designs.

Architecture review boardsADRsControl mappingException governanceResilienceExecutive communication

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Security Architect Career ProgramPlanned courseView course

Portfolio projectLead a simulated security architecture review and publish the diagrams, threat model, control matrix, ADRs, validation plan, residual-risk statement, and executive decision brief.

Technology toolkit

Tools and platforms you will practice.

NIST CSFCIS ControlsOWASPOAuth/OIDCMicrosoft AzureEntra IDDefender for CloudThreat modelingArchitecture decision recordsData-flow diagrams

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