Who Should Attend?

It is for professionals who seek to acquire knowledge on cloud technology. Suitable for:

• Mid- to senior- level system architects
• System administrators
• IT managers
• Technology consultants

Prerequisites & Exams

Recommended Prerequisites:

• To achieve this certification, Exam C90.CAR must be completed with a passing grade.

Course Outline

Topic 1: Fundamental Cloud Security

This course delves into a series of cloud security mechanisms and associated architectural patterns that explore a variety of topics, including cloud network security, identity and access management, and trust assurance.

• Cloud Security Basics
• Common Cloud Security Mechanisms
• Cloud Security Threats
• Cloud Security Threat Categorization Methodology
• Identification and Treatment of Common Threats
• Cloud Network Security Patterns and Supporting Mechanisms
• Securing Network Connections and Cloud Authentication Gateways
• Collaborative Monitoring and Logging
• Independent Cloud Auditing
• Cloud Identity and Access Management Patterns and Supporting Mechanisms
• Federating and Enabling Secure Interoperability among Cloud Consumers
• Trust Assurance Patterns and Supporting Mechanisms
• Trust Attestation and Establishing Trustworthiness

Topic 2: Advance Cloud Security

This module explains common methods used by attackers to breach organizational resources and provides a methodology for countering such attacks. The course concludes by demonstrating the relationship between threats, attacks, and risks via threat modeling.

• Cloud Service Security Patterns and Supporting Mechanisms
• Virtual Machine Platform Protection Patterns
• Considerations for Setting Up Secure Ephemeral Perimeters
• Trusted Cloud Resource Pools and Cloud Resource Access Control
• Permanent Data Access Loss Protection
• Cloud Data Breach Protection
• Isolated Trust Boundaries
• The Attack Lifecycle and the Security Lifecycle
• Proactive Mitigation vs. Incidence Response
• Threats, Vulnerabilities, Impacts from Exploitation
• Threat Modeling, Threats and Mitigations

Topic 3: Cloud Security Lab

This module provides a set of detailed exercises that require participants to solve a number of inter-related problems, with the ultimate goal of evaluating, designing and correcting cloud security technology architectures to fulfill specific sets of solution and business automation requirements.