Cloud Security Basics

Instructor: Rick Smith

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

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

Shareable Certificate

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Outcomes

  • Learn new concepts from industry experts
  • Gain a foundational understanding of a subject or tool
  • Develop job-relevant skills with hands-on projects
  • Earn a shareable career certificate

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.