SEC 6015 Cloud Security Essentials
This course introduces students to cloud security. This course is designed for students with little to no practical cyber security experience or background. This course provides students with basic terminology, concepts and security philosophy for cloud. This course introduces students to:
- Cloud security defensive and offensive protection;
- Identify the security benefits and responsibilities when using cloud;
- Understand access control and access management vital for cloud;
- Understand the different data encryption methods to secure sensitive data;
- Describe and design secure network access to cloud; and
- Determine which services can be used for security logging and monitoring.
Topics include an overview of information security frameworks, traditional and cloud security, network infrastructure security, security and cryptography, information security policy, and defense in depth. Understand cloud security from both a tactical and strategic perspective. Students are introduced to multiple cloud platforms, deployment models and protection tools, techniques, and strategies.