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Course Overview

Cloud platforms have become the foundation of modern digital infrastructure, enabling organizations to scale quickly, improve agility, and deliver services efficiently. However, securing cloud environments requires understanding shared responsibilities, identity controls, infrastructure hardening, and continuous monitoring across increasingly complex environments. This course provides practical knowledge and hands-on experience to help you build, secure, monitor, and govern cloud environments using industry-relevant cloud security practices and tools.

This course begins with foundational cloud concepts, including service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), cloud infrastructure components, identity and access management (IAM), multi-cloud architecture, and the shared responsibility model. You will then learn to secure virtual infrastructure through hardening techniques, secure networking, encryption, backup strategies, and storage protection. The course also covers cloud-native detection and response capabilities using logging, monitoring, incident response, and forensic techniques, before introducing governance and compliance practices aligned with CIS Benchmarks, ISO 27001, and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework.

By the end of this course, you will be able to securely deploy, monitor, govern, and respond to risks across cloud environments using practical cloud security controls and frameworks.

What You Will Learn

  • Tell compute, storage, and network resources apart and map them to IaaS or PaaS.
  • Create least-privilege IAM users, enable MFA, patch a VM, and build a “web-only” security group.
  • Turn on GuardDuty, Azure Defender, or Google SCC and interpret your very first findings.
  • Align basic controls to CIS Benchmarks, ISO 27001 clauses, and NIST CSF categories, then export tag, cost, and config reports.
  • Disable a compromised key, snapshot evidence, and write a five-question post-mortem, without specialist tools.

Program Curriculum

  • Module Introduction
  • Identify IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS Services
  • Compare Cloud Providers and Launch Core Services
  • Multi-cloud Zero Trust Architecture
  • Recognize the Components of a Virtual Machine
  • Explore Database and Object Storage Options
  • Visualize Cloud Networking and Firewall Concepts
  • Explain Shared Responsibility Using Pizza-as-a-Service
  • Create a Least-privilege IAM User
  • Enable Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) on an Account
  • Chapter 1 Quiz

  • Module Introduction
  • Launch a Secure OS Image from a Trusted Source
  • Enable Automatic Patching and Logging
  • Configure SSH Key-based Access and Disable Passwords
  • Explain Port Rules with Real-world Analogies
  • Build a Web-only Security Group
  • Validate Security Group Rules Using cURL and Analyzer Tools
  • Enable Encryption at Rest Using Managed Keys
  • Prevent Public Access to Buckets
  • Set Up Backup and Snapshot Schedules
  • Chapter 2 Quiz

  • Module Introduction
  • Activate GuardDuty, Azure Defender, or Google SCC
  • Interpret Sample Security Findings
  • Triage Low-severity and False Positive Alerts
  • Enable Logging for Cloud API Activity
  • Search Logs for Risky Events
  • Export Logs for Retention and Audit
  • Revoke Compromised Access Keys Immediately
  • Capture a Snapshot for Forensic Analysis
  • Complete a Post-mortem Using a Simple Template
  • Chapter 3 Quiz

  • Module Introduction
  • Compare Popular Security Frameworks
  • Apply the CIS Ubuntu Benchmark to a VM
  • Use a Matrix to Map Controls Across Frameworks
  • Tag Cloud Resources for Ownership and Cost Tracking
  • Generate Cost and Compliance Reports
  • Enforce “No Public Buckets” with a Config Rule
  • Review the 10 Must-do Security Controls
  • Complete a Capstone Self-audit Using a Checklist
  • Explore Certification and Learning Paths
  • Course Wrap-up Video
  • Chapter 4 Quiz
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