Course Overview

Code Red is SecureStack’s flagship healthcare cloud security simulation designed to mirror how real protected health information exposure incidents unfold inside Microsoft Azure environments.

Participants are placed inside a live breach scenario involving misconfigured Azure Storage, suspicious access patterns, and potential PHI exposure. Rather than reviewing product features in isolation, learners work through a coordinated incident lifecycle that spans detection, investigation, governance validation, AI-assisted triage, and remediation.

This course develops operational readiness across security, compliance, and leadership roles by forcing coordinated decision-making under time pressure. Every action has technical, regulatory, and executive impact.

This is not theory.
This is execution.

Course Outline

Module 1 — Incident Briefing & Threat Context

• Understanding Protected Health Information (PHI) in Azure

• How storage misconfigurations create exposure risk

• Mapping healthcare breach scenarios to cloud architecture

• Defining operational roles: SOC, Compliance, Engineering, Leadership

Module 2 — Exposure Detection (Microsoft Defender for Cloud)

• Identifying high-risk storage configurations

• Interpreting security posture recommendations

• Reviewing alerts tied to unusual storage access

• Understanding severity, risk score, and attack paths

Module 3 — Incident Investigation (Microsoft Sentinel)

• Correlating alerts and activity logs

• Running targeted queries to determine scope

• Mapping signals to MITRE ATT&CK techniques

• Determining blast radius and affected assets

Module 4 — PHI Governance & Impact Validation (Microsoft Purview)

• Validating PHI classification and sensitivity labels

• Reviewing Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policy impact

• Confirming whether exposed data contains regulated elements

• Assessing compliance implications

Module 5 — AI-Assisted Triage (Security Copilot)

• Using AI to summarize incident data

• Generating investigation hypotheses

• Validating AI-generated remediation suggestions

• Accelerating executive brief preparation

Module 6 — Remediation & Validation (Copilot in Azure)

• Correcting storage misconfigurations

• Implementing least-privilege adjustments

• Validating closure through alert re-testing

• Documenting operational lessons learned

Business Impact & Operational Outcomes

By completing Code Red, participants will be able to:

• Reduce time to triage cloud-based PHI incidents

• Improve cross-role coordination during security events

• Validate compliance impact before executive escalation

• Confidently remediate Azure misconfigurations

• Communicate technical findings to leadership