Cloud Security Course for Technical Professionals

This class takes you through the initial steps of engineering and architecting to become a Cloud Security Engineer and architect. Over two days, we will get our hands dirty in cloud environments and learn about architectural patterns. The class goes into the details of Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services from a security perspective. We will learn reference architectures, how to design secure cloud environments, and preparing for incident response. At the end of the course, we will summarize our learnings into defining a cloud security strategy and roadmap.

Course outline:

• Public Cloud Security Fundamentals
  • Similarities and important differences between public clouds
  • Security Services
  • Identity and Access Management
  • Security Architecture Patterns
• Infrastructure as Code
  • Language options and comparison
  • Securing Infrastructure as Code
  • Designing, building, and securing a deployment pipeline
• Cloud Security Engineering
  • Protecting integrity in code repositories
  • Hands-on lab: Building a secure deployment pipeline
  • Deploying secure artifacts
  • Securing workloads in the cloud
• Incident Response
  • Planning for Incident Response in Cloud environments
  • Hands-on lab: Incident Response in the Cloud
• Cloud Security Strategy