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 the elements of cloud infrastructure
• Evaluating the security implications of various deployment models
• Benefits and drawbacks of virtualisation
• The cloud management plane
• Fundamental security concepts for different 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 data in the cloud
• Addressing cloud security and governance
• Applying the data lifecycle to specific use cases
• Discussion on data encryption

Securing applications and users

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

Cloud Risk assessment

• Adopting cloud computing technologies
• Migrating existing applications and systems

Create and secure a public cloud

• Understanding public IaaS architectures
• Reviewing EC2 components
• Launching and connecting to an initial instance
• Techniques for securing your instance

DAY 2

Encrypting an EBS volume

• Rationale for encryption
• Selecting an appropriate encryption method
• Creating and attaching an Amazon EBS volume
• Encrypting and formatting the volume
• Understanding key management options
• Impacts of system reboots
• Attaching an encrypted volume to another instance

Identity and access management

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

Deploy and secure a Private Cloud

• Understanding private cloud architecture
• Reviewing OpenStack components
• Creating and connecting a compute node
• Managing OpenStack tenants and IAM
• Securing the OpenStack management plane
• Investigating hypervisor security
• Understanding security automation

Selecting Cloud services

• Developing a security strategy
• Choosing a cloud provider
• Security as a service
• Summary and review