• Online, Instructor-Led
  • Online, Self-Paced
Course Description

This course introduces you to cybersecurity for the cloud. Students will learn and apply classic security techniques to today’s cloud security problems. The course will start with a deceptively simple and secure web service and address the problems arising as we improve it. Students will learn how to analyze recent cloud security vulnerabilities using standard, systematic techniques. In this course, students will build their own web service case studies and construct security solutions for them.

Learning Objectives

Be able to design a simple cloud service and select appropriate security measures to protect it. Be able to assess levels of risk and recent vulnerabilities that apply to cloud services, Be able to associate user roles with appropriate entities deploying or using a cloud service, Be able to learn and apply basic network security techniques in the cloud environment. Be able to identify the industry security standards, regulatory mandates, audit policies and compliance requirements for Cloud based infrastructures.

Framework Connections

The materials within this course focus on the NICE Framework Task, Knowledge, and Skill statements identified within the indicated NICE Framework component(s):

Competency Areas

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