Course Overview

This simulation reflects patterns observed in publicly reported life sciences and pharmaceutical cloud exposure incidents involving misconfigured storage endpoints and excessive permissions exposing clinical research data, trial records, and pre‑market intellectual property.

Participants navigate a realistic breach lifecycle from detection through remediation, aligning security operations with regulatory scrutiny, research integrity requirements, and executive accountability for patient safety, data integrity, and competitive risk.

How Code Red Builds on Microsoft Certification Training

Code Red is designed to extend and operationalize skills commonly developed through Microsoft security certification learning paths. It does not replace certification training; instead, it connects individual product knowledge into a single, end‑to‑end incident response scenario.

• AZ‑900 — Provides foundational cloud and security concepts that Code Red assumes and builds upon

• AZ‑500 — Reinforces Azure security posture, misconfiguration risk, and remediation reasoning

• SC‑200 — Extends SOC investigation skills by connecting alerts, KQL analysis, and incident timelines

• SC‑401 — Applies information protection and governance concepts to real regulatory decision points

• SC‑5002 (Applied Skills) — Complements tool‑specific scenarios with cross‑tool, cross‑role incident reasoning

Code Red focuses on how these tools and skills are used together during real incidents, rather than how they are configured in isolation.

Post‑Certification Readiness

Code Red is post‑certification readiness training that turns tool‑level knowledge into incident‑ready operational judgment across the Microsoft cloud security workflow.

Course Outline

Module 1 — Life Sciences Threat Context

• Understanding regulated clinical research and pharmaceutical data in Azure

• Storage exposure and clinical trial data risk

• Mapping regulatory oversight and research accountability to cloud environments

Module 2 — Exposure Detection (Defender for Cloud)

• Identifying misconfigured storage and access conditions

• Reviewing posture severity and exposure alerts

• Understanding early indicators of unauthorized access to research datasets

Module 3 — Investigation (Microsoft Sentinel)

• Correlating abnormal access and telemetry patterns

• Running scope determination queries

• Mapping activity to structured threat techniques

Module 4 — Regulatory and Governance Impact (Microsoft Purview)

• Validating classification of clinical, research, and pharmaceutical data

• Reviewing policy coverage and governance gaps

• Assessing regulatory, audit, and disclosure implications

Module 5 — AI‑Assisted Triage (Security Copilot)

• Generating concise incident summaries

• Validating remediation paths and containment logic

• Preparing executive, legal, and regulatory oversight briefings

Module 6 — Remediation (Copilot in Azure)

• Correcting configuration weaknesses

• Re‑validating security posture

• Documenting operational and governance improvements

Business Impact & Operational Outcomes

By completing Code Red: Clinical Research Data Exposure Simulation, participants will be able to:

• Reduce time to detect and contain cloud‑based clinical research and pharmaceutical data exposure incidents

• Improve coordination between security operations, compliance, research, and executive leadership

• Validate regulatory and data‑integrity impact before disclosure and escalation decisions

• Strengthen cloud governance to prevent repeat exposure of trial data and pre‑market intellectual property

• Translate technical findings into structured, oversight‑ready risk communication

• Align operational response with regulatory accountability, research integrity, and patient safety expectations

This course develops disciplined, compliance‑aware incident reasoning across Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Purview, Security Copilot, and Copilot in Azure.