SANS Cloud Security Essentials (SEC488)
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Training at a glance
Level
Beginner
Duration
6 Days
Experience
2 years: Cloud Security
Average Salary
$152,773
Labs
Yes
Level
Beginner
Duration
6 Days
Experience
2 years: Cloud Security
Average Salary
$152,773
Labs
Yes
Training Details
Participants will prepare and deliver numerous practice presentations while receiving coaching feedback from an award-winning instructor with over 20 years of classroom delivery experience. The class is very hands on: participants create and deliver numerous presentations. Accordingly, this class should be limited to 12 participants.
SECTION 1: Identity and Access Management
TOPICS: Course Overview; Cloud Accounts; Policies and Permissions; Groups and Roles; Temporary Credentials; Secrets Management; Customer Account Management and External Access; More IAM Best Practices
SECTION 2: Compute and Configuration Management
TOPICS: Securely deploy a compute instance/virtual machine in CSP environments; Maintain the running instance throughout its lifecycle; Create hardened images for re-use in the organization; Understand the various threats that could affect cloud-based applications; Lock down cloud storage to prevent spillage of sensitive information
SECTION 3: Data Protection and Automation
TOPICS: Data Classification; Data at Rest Encryption; Availability; Data in Transit Encryption; Lifecycle Management; Infrastructure as Code; Productivity Services; Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB)
SECTION 4: Networking and Logging
TOPICS: Private Cloud Networking; Public Cloud Networking; Network Segmentation; Network Protection Services; Cloud Logging Services; Log Collection and Analysis; Network Visibility; Cloud Detection Services
SECTION 5: Compliance, Incident Response, and Penetration Testing
TOPICS: Security Assurance; Cloud Auditing; Privacy; Government Clouds; Risk Management; Penetration Testing; Legal and Contractual Requirements; Incident Response and Forensics
SECTION 6: CloudWars
This final section consists of an all-day, CloudWars competition to reinforce the topics covered in Sections 1–5. Through this friendly competition, students will answer several challenges made up of multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, as well as hands-on and validated exercises performed in two CSP environments. They will be given a brand-new environment to deploy in two different cloud vendors and will be tasked to take this very broken environment and make the appropriate changes to increase its overall security posture.
If you have the capability to learn and the desire to grow, this training program is for you, independent of your formal education.
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