Cloud Security Basics

Beginner Level
12 hours to complete 3 weeks at 4 hours a week
Flexible Schedule

Rick Smith

What You’ll Learn

Design a simple cloud service and select appropriate security measures to protect it.

Associate user roles with appropriate entities deploying or using a cloud service.

Assess levels of risk and recent vulnerabilities that apply to cloud services.

Learn and apply basic network security techniques in the cloud environment.

Skills You’ll Gain

Application Security Encryption Cloud Security Vulnerability Assessments Virtualization Virtual Machines Authorization (Computing) Cryptography Information Systems Security Cybersecurity Public Key Infrastructure Cloud Computing Network Security Remote Access Systems Infrastructure Security Security Controls

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There are 4 modules in this course

Here we introduce Internet server security in six steps, covering the first three in detail.

We examine techniques to control how different hosts interact within a network.

Modern systems rarely reside inside a single trust boundary. We use cryptography to protect information when it travels outside our trust boundary.

The public cloud provides both operational benefits and security challenges. We use concepts from the earlier modules to address cloud security challenges.