Course Outline
DAY 1
Introduction and Cloud Architecture
- Defining cloud computing
- Components of the cloud computing stack
- Cloud reference models and security
Infrastructure Security for Cloud Computing
- Identifying components of cloud infrastructure
- Evaluating the security impact of various deployment models
- Benefits and drawbacks of virtualization
- The cloud management plane
- Foundations of security across different service models
Managing cloud computing security and risk
- Risk management and governance
- Legal and compliance considerations
- Auditing processes
- Data portability and system interoperability
- Incident response strategies
Data security for cloud
- Variations in cloud storage models
- Security challenges for data residing in the cloud
- Addressing cloud security and governance frameworks
- Applying data lifecycle concepts to specific use cases
- Overview of data encryption methods
Securing applications and users
- Designing application architecture and managing the operations 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
- An overview of EC2 components
- Launching and connecting to an initial instance
- Methods for securing instances
DAY 2
Encrypting an EBS volume
- Rationale for encryption
- Selecting an appropriate encryption method
- Creating and attaching Amazon EBS volumes
- Encrypting and formatting data
- Key management options
- Impact 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 via OpenID
- Applying these principles in enterprise production settings
Deploy and secure a Private Cloud
- Concepts of private cloud architecture
- Reviewing OpenStack components
- Creating and connecting compute nodes
- Managing OpenStack tenants and IAM
- Securing the OpenStack management plane
- Hypervisor security considerations
- Security automation techniques
Selecting Cloud services
- Developing a security strategy
- Evaluating and selecting a cloud provider
- The concept of Security as a Service
- Course summary and review
Testimonials (7)
A wide range of knowledge of the lecturer.
Marcin Szklarski - Santander Consumer Bank
Course - CCSK Plus (Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge - Plus)
The presenter knowledge, way of speaking, sense of humour.
Rafal Kosz - EY
Course - CCSK Plus (Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge - Plus)
Open discussions
Krzysztof Pytko - EY
Course - CCSK Plus (Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge - Plus)
Trainer was calm, we had enough time to go through the subjects.
Andrzej Tarczynski - EY
Course - CCSK Plus (Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge - Plus)
I enjoyed the trainer methods to attract our attention.
Antonio Osuna Sanchez - Blue Indico Investments, S.L.U.
Course - CCSK - Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge - Plus
Ahmed was always trying to keep attention of us.
Alberto Brezmes - Blue Indico Investments, S.L.U.
Course - CCSK - Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge - Plus
The trainer was very nice and available. I appreciated his knowledge, skills and preparation about the subject. Furthermore, he provided us extra content about IoT, very interesting.
