Cloud Security Fundamentals: Protect Data, Apps & Infra

Explore cloud governance fundamentals, including policies, standards, and procedures, and learn how aligning cloud strategies with business objectives mitigates risk and enhances efficiency.

Identify and assess cloud risks, and use strategies to mitigate them. Implement continuous monitoring and improvement with frameworks like NIST SP 830 and ISO 27005.

Align cloud compliance with regulatory requirements and frameworks such as GDPR, PCI DSS, HIPAA, ISO 27017, and NIST to protect data and build trust.

Explore cloud security frameworks, including the NIST cybersecurity framework, CIS controls, and CSA cloud control matrix, and learn implementation, governance, risk management, identity, protection, detection, and recovery.

Explore identity and access management fundamentals in cloud environments, covering least privileges, role-based access control, lifecycle management, and federated identity with single sign-on, plus multi-factor authentication.

Explore identity and access management across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, detailing users, groups, roles, and policies, with hands-on AWS practice and best practices for auditing and security.

Understand federated identity and single sign on to secure multi-app access, compare saml, oauth 2.0, openid connect, and integrate on premises directories with cloud iam.

Explore how privileged access management protects admin accounts with strict controls and layered security. Apply best practices: least privilege, multifactor authentication, credential vaulting, session monitoring, and just in time access.

Explore virtual networking basics and how virtual private clouds, subnets, routing tables, security groups, and nacls enable secure, scalable cloud communications; learn firewall, micro-segmentation, and intrusion detection and prevention concepts.

Explore cloud native firewalls and micro-segmentation to control data flow and access, and implement Calico and AWS security groups to segment apps and limit damage.

Explore secure connectivity in cloud environments by implementing vpn and dedicated connections, zero trust network access, network flow logs, and advanced firewalls for monitoring and protecting data in transit.

Explore cloud native intrusion detection and prevention with AWS GuardDuty and Azure Defender, and learn continuous monitoring, automated response, and CI/CD integration to safeguard data, apps, and infrastructure.

Explore data classification and lifecycle management in cloud security, including sensitivity levels, labeling, and handling creation to deletion. Implement automation, policy enforcement, and monitoring to meet compliance and optimize costs.

Explore encryption strategies in cloud security, covering encryption at rest and in transit, key management services like AWS KMS and Azure Key Vault, and envelope encryption and BYOK techniques.

Explore data loss prevention strategies, including policy development, data classification, user education, and incident response, while evaluating network, endpoint, cloud DLP, and security information and event management tools.

Explore tokenization and data masking to safeguard sensitive data, compare techniques, discuss use cases like payments and healthcare, and outline implementations, governance, and security considerations.

Explore security monitoring and logging in cloud and on-prem networks, centralizing logs with SIEM tools like Splunk, Azure Sentinel, and Google Chronicle for real-time threat detection and automated responses.

Develop a cloud-focused incident response plan by preparing, detecting and analyzing, containing, and recovering from incidents, using playbooks and tools to minimize downtime and meet compliance.

Explore threat intelligence and real-time feeds to detect and block cloud threats. Learn how to integrate feeds with siem and so ar, automate detections, and manage data overload and false positives.

learn to scan cloud resources for vulnerabilities, automate patch management across AWS, Azure, and GCP with native and third-party tools, and maintain asset inventories with continuous scanning.

Learn how to secure cloud native applications by integrating security into ci/cd with devsecops, securing containers and microservices, and enforcing zero trust in orchestration.

Learn how to secure containers with trusted base images, image signing, least privilege, network segmentation, and ongoing runtime protection; explore scanning tools and CI/CD integration to meet compliance.

Explore how serverless security protects functions as a service, covering least privilege iam, input validation, secure event triggers, secret management, logging, and monitoring to counter third-party risks and cold starts.

Master API security by implementing OAuth 2.0 and JWT, protecting APIs with gateways, applying rate limiting and throttling, and addressing tokens, authentication, authorization, and versioning.

Design secure cloud architecture with multi-tier, segmented networks, least-privilege access, and encryption at rest and in transit, embracing zero-trust and automated security design.

Explore zero trust architecture and its core principles—never trust, verify, authenticate, authorize, least privileged access, micro-segmentation, continuous monitoring, and device and user verification—and how to implement them in cloud.

Secure multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments with federated identity, unified logging, and centralized monitoring. Implement infrastructure as code and cross-cloud security frameworks to reduce misconfigurations and vendor lock-in.

Secure data and applications at the edge with encryption in transit and at rest, data minimization, secure boot, and sandboxing, while addressing IoT challenges through edge device management and zero-trust.

Design for redundancy and failover to keep systems online during outages. Optimize fault tolerance and high availability with load balancing across multiple availability zones and regions.

Learn automated backup and recovery strategies in the cloud, including cross-region replication and disaster recovery planning. Study RPO and RTO, and apply best practices like testing restores and encryption.

Develop a business continuity plan (BCP) to keep essential services running during disruptions, using BIA, risk assessment, strategy and plan development, testing, and cloud-enabled failover.

Apply chaos engineering to uncover weaknesses, using a hypothesis, real-world failures, and production-like testing to boost resilience, automate experiments, and minimize blast radius with tools like Gremlin and AWS FIS.

Analyze security considerations in serverless architectures, including short-lived functions, increased attack surface, dependency risk, and insecure configurations, and learn function isolation and monitoring best practices.

Understand confidential computing in cloud environments, enabled by trusted execution environments, to protect data in use with hardware isolation and remote attestation using SGX, Nitro Enclaves, and Azure Confidential Computing.

Explore secure access service edge (sase), a cloud-native framework that blends networking and security at the edge to improve performance, detailing its five components: sd-wan, swg, casb, ztna, fwaas.

Explore how cloud security posture management automates detection and remediation of misconfigurations across multiple cloud infrastructures, with continuous monitoring, policy enforcement, and automatic fixes.