Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge Training Course

DAY 1

Introduction and Cloud Architecture

• Defining cloud computing concepts
• Components of the cloud computing stack
• Cloud reference models and security considerations

Infrastructure Security for Cloud Computing

• Understanding cloud infrastructure components
• Evaluating the security impact of various deployment models
• Benefits and limitations of virtualization
• The cloud management plane
• Security fundamentals across different service models

Managing cloud computing security and risk

• Risk management and governance frameworks
• Legal and compliance requirements
• Audit processes
• Portability and interoperability standards
• Incident response strategies

Data security for cloud

• Variations in cloud storage models
• Addressing security challenges for data in the cloud
• Implementing cloud security and governance measures
• Applying data lifecycle concepts to practical use cases
• Exploring data encryption methods

Securing applications and users

• Application architecture design and operational lifecycle
• Evaluating the impact on the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Reviewing application security tools
• The role of compliance in cloud environments

Cloud Risk assessment

• Strategies for adopting cloud computing
• Migrating existing applications and systems

Create and secure a public cloud

• Understanding public IaaS architectures
• Examining EC2 components
• Launching and connecting to a first instance
• Learning techniques to secure cloud instances

DAY 2

Encrypting an EBS volume

• Rationale for encryption
• Selecting appropriate encryption methods
• Creating and attaching Amazon EBS volumes
• Encryption and formatting procedures
• Understanding key management options
• Assessing the effects of system reboots
• Attaching encrypted volumes to additional instances

Identity and access management

• Securing EC2 instances using AWS IAM
• Understanding federated identity architectures
• Implementing federated identity for applications using OpenID
• Applying these principles to enterprise production environments

Deploy and secure a Private Cloud

• Understanding private cloud architectures
• Reviewing OpenStack components
• Creating and connecting compute nodes
• Managing OpenStack tenants and IAM
• Securing the OpenStack management plane
• Investigating hypervisor security
• Understanding security automation

Selecting Cloud services

• Enabling security strategy
• Criteria for selecting a cloud provider
• Security as a Service (SECaaS)
• Course summary and review