Syllabus 

Section Descriptions

SECTION 1: Identity and Access Management

TOPICS: Course Overview; Cloud Accounts; Policies and Permissions; Groups and Roles; Temporary Credentials; Secrets Management; Customer Account Management and External Access; More IAM Best Practices

SECTION 2: Compute and Configuration Management

TOPICS: Secure Instance/Virtual Machine Deployment: Host Configuration Management: Image Management: Application Security: Threat Modeling: Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) Challenges: Container Services: Cloud Storage.

SECTION 3: Data Protection and Automation 

TOPICS: Data Classification; Data at Rest Encryption; Availability; Data in Transit Encryption; Lifecycle Management; Infrastructure as Code; Productivity Services; Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB) Section 2 will cover ways to protect the compute elements in cloud providers’ Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings.

SECTION 4:Networking and Logging 

TOPICS: Public Cloud Networking; Remote Management of IaaS Systems: Segmentation: Network Protection Services: Cloud Logging Services :Log Collection & Analysis:Network Visibility:Cloud Detection Services 

SECTION 5:Compliance, Incident Response, and Penetration Testing 

TOPICS: Security Assurance; Cloud Auditing; Privacy; Government Clouds; Risk Management; Penetration Testing; Legal and Contractual Requirements; Incident Response and Forensics Section 3 will first focus on the protection of data in cloud environments.

SECTION 6:Cloud wars

This final section consists of an all-day, CloudWars competition to reinforce the topics covered in Sections 1–5. Through this friendly competition, students will answer several challenges made up of multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, as well as hands-on and validated exercises performed in two CSP environments. They will be given a brand-new environment to deploy in two different cloud vendors and will be tasked to take this very broken environment and make the appropriate changes to increase its overall security posture.

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