Providing Cloud Security

Course details

This course explores some of the key risk areas when it comes to security and cloud computing. Although some of the fears in regards to security in the cloud are exaggerated, there are specific areas to be aware and cautious about. The key is knowing your IT infrastructure and needs, as well as carefully assessing the cloud provider offering and security measures. The course introduces control assessment frameworks and models that can be used in assessing your risk in going to the cloud and evaluating the cloud provider's security offering. Along with the top identified security risks, it outlines basic guidelines that should be followed to ensure an adequate level of security in an xaaS environment. In particular, key areas of the IT infrastructure and issues relating to data transfer and storage are covered.

• identify methods of providing security for data moving to the cloud or residing in the cloud
• match the means by which CSPs provide security assurances to their descriptions
• identify the key risk areas in cloud computing
• describe the basic security practices that should be implemented in a SaaS environment
• describe the security considerations involved in connecting your network infrastructure to the cloud
• distinguish between the security responsibilities of client and CSP for different cloud deployments at the host level
• match the cloud service delivery model to who is responsible for it's application security
• describe the key challenges related to securing data in the cloud
• identify the questions a potential user of cloud data storage needs to ask when conducting a risk assessment
• determine if a CSP can provide the required security assurances in a given scenario
• define the cloud data security challenges for a given scenario