Cloud Security Architecture – An introduction

This course gives an introduction to security architecture for the cloud. You as a cloud consumer must be able to docment, create and govern your security architecture. The purpose of security architecture work is to protect your data and services in the cloud from potential misuse from hackers and other unauthorized individuals. You have to know what the cloud service provider will do to protect you and what you have to take responsibility for yourself.

This course will teach you what type of focus you need when you start creating a security architecture and what steps you must complete in order to implement and document the security architecture you need for your cloud solutions The course will not go into cloud vendor sepcific details but point to relevant resources for further learning.

Did you know that, according to Gartner, through 2025, 99% of cloud security failures will be the customers fault?
Cloud misconfiguration is considered one of the highest ranking risks for cloud services and has already led to the exposure of billions of data records. This risk can be lowered considerable when having a structured approach to security architecture for the cloud and should the primary objective of completing this course.

Course contents:

• Security Architecture
• Cloud Computing
• Shared responsibility model
• Methodology and frameworks
• Strategy, scope and context
• Risk
• Compliance
• Logical security architecture
• Layered defenses
• Implementation and best practices