Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge Training Course

DAY 1

Introduction and Cloud Architecture

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

Infrastructure Security for Cloud Computing

• Analysis of cloud infrastructure constituents
• Evaluation of security outcomes associated with 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
• Auditing processes
• Portability and interoperability standards
• Incident response strategies

Data security for cloud

• Variations in cloud storage models
• Security challenges for data in cloud environments
• Integration of cloud security with governance
• Application of data lifecycle concepts to specific use cases
• Overview of data encryption techniques

Securing applications and users

• Application architecture design and operational lifecycle
• Impact on the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Evaluation of application security tools
• The role of compliance within cloud environments

Cloud Risk assessment

• Adoption of cloud computing strategies
• Migration of existing applications and systems

Create and secure a public cloud

• Understanding public IaaS architectures
• Review of EC2 components
• Initialization and connection to the first instance
• Techniques for securing instances

DAY 2

Encrypting an EBS volume

• Rationale for encryption
• Selection of appropriate methods
• Creation and attachment of Amazon EBS
• Encryption and formatting procedures
• Overview of key management options
• Implications of system reboots
• Attaching encrypted volumes to additional instances

Identity and access management

• Securing EC2 environments using AWS IAM
• Understanding federated identity architectures
• Implementation of federated identity for applications via OpenID
• Application of these principles in enterprise production settings

Deploy and secure a Private Cloud

• Understanding private cloud architecture
• Review of OpenStack components
• Creation and connection of a compute node
• Management of OpenStack tenants and IAM
• Securing the OpenStack management plane
• Investigation of hypervisor security
• Understanding security automation

Selecting Cloud services

• Enabling security strategy
• Selecting a cloud provider
• Security as a service
• Summary and review