Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge Training Course

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

• Understanding cloud infrastructure components
• Evaluating security implications of deployment models
• Pros and cons of virtualization
• The cloud management plane
• Security fundamentals across various service models

Managing cloud computing security and risk

• Risk management and governance
• Legal and compliance considerations
• Auditing processes
• Portability and interoperability
• Incident response strategies

Data security for cloud

• Various cloud storage models
• Security challenges for cloud-based data
• Addressing cloud security and governance
• Applying data lifecycle principles to use cases
• Data encryption practices

Securing applications and users

• Application architecture design and the operational lifecycle
• Impact on the SDLC
• Review of application security tools
• The role of compliance in the cloud

Cloud Risk assessment

• Adopting cloud computing
• Migrating existing applications and systems

Create and secure a public cloud

• Understanding public IaaS architectures
• Reviewing EC2 components
• Launching and connecting to the first instance
• Securing the instance

DAY 2

Encrypting an EBS volume

• Reasons for encryption
• Selecting an encryption method
• Creating and attaching Amazon EBS
• Encryption and formatting procedures
• Key management options
• Effects of system reboots
• Attaching the encrypted volume to another instance

Identity and access management

• Securing EC2 using AWS IAM
• Federated identity architectures
• Implementing federated identity for applications using OpenID
• Applying these principles in enterprise production environments

Deploy and secure a Private Cloud

• Private cloud architecture
• OpenStack components
• Creating and connecting a compute node
• Managing OpenStack tenants and IAM
• Securing the OpenStack management plane
• Hypervisor security considerations
• Security automation

Selecting Cloud services

• Establishing a security strategy
• Choosing a cloud provider
• Security as a service
• Course summary and review