Cloud Security Architecture and Operations

Duration

5 days

Overview

As more organizations move data and infrastructure to the cloud, security is becoming a major priority. Operations and development teams are finding new uses for cloud services, and executives are eager to save money and gain new capabilities and operational efficiency by using these services. But, will information security prove to be an Achilles' heel? Many cloud providers do not provide detailed control information about their internal environments, and quite a few common security controls used internally may not translate directly to the public cloud.

The SEC545 course, Cloud Security Architecture and Operations, will tackle these issues one by one. We'll start with a brief introduction to cloud security fundamentals, and then cover the critical concepts of cloud policy and governance for security professionals. For the rest of day one and all of day two, we'll move into technical security principles and controls for all major cloud types (SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS). We'll learn about the Cloud Security Alliance framework for cloud control areas, then delve into assessing risk for cloud services, looking specifically at technical areas that need to be addressed.

The course then moves into cloud architecture and security design, both for building new architectures and for adapting tried-and-true security tools and processes to the cloud. This will be a comprehensive discussion that encompasses network security (firewalls and network access controls, intrusion detection, and more), as well as all the other layers of the cloud security stack. We'll visit each layer and the components therein, including building secure instances, data security, identity and account security, and much more. We'll devote an entire day to adapting our offense and defense focal areas to cloud. This will involve looking at vulnerability management and pen testing, as well as covering the latest and greatest cloud security research. On the defense side, we'll delve into incident handling, forensics, event management, and application security.

We wrap up the course by taking a deep dive into SecDevOps and automation, investigating methods of embedding security into orchestration and every facet of the cloud life cycle. We'll explore tools and tactics that work, and even walk through several cutting-edge use cases where security can be automated entirely in both deployment and incident detection-and-response scenarios using APIs and scripting.

Course Syllabus

• SEC545.1: Cloud Security Foundations
• SEC545.2: Core Security Controls for Cloud Computing
• SEC545.3: Cloud Security Architecture and Design
• SEC545.4: Cloud Security - Offense and Defense
• SEC545.5: Cloud Security Automation and Orchestration

Who Should Attend

• Security Analysts
• Security Architects
• Senior Security Engineers
• Technical Security Managers
• Security Monitoring Analysts
• Cloud Security Architects
• DevOps and DevSecOps Engineers
• System Administrators
• Cloud Administrators

Pre-requisites

A basic understanding of TCP/IP, network security, and security architecture are helpful for this course. Comfort with the command line is a must, as many exercises are conducted there (Linux command line skills are useful). Comfort with VMware virtualization is a plus.

Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.