Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK) Cert Prep

Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK) Cert Prep

2h 17mIntermediate2025-08-18

Authors

Lyron Andrews

Lyron Andrews

Cloud Security Alliance

Cloud Security Alliance

Profabula, LLC

Profabula, LLC

Course details

As the commoditization of cloud services gains traction, provider selection options and services continue growing in complexity. To ensure a secure experience while consuming those services, you need to take a holistic approach. The CCSK will give you the knowledge required to develop a cloud security program that meets international standards. The newly updated certificate offers you a chance to prove your skills in Zero Trust, DevSecOps, Cloud Telemetry and Security Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, and more. This course covers critical areas of cloud security, including Cloud Computing Concepts, Cloud Governance, Risk, Audit, Compliance, Identity and Access Management, and Security Monitoring. The CCSK certificate equips you with in-depth knowledge and cloud security solutions necessary for securing cloud environments and protecting data, and this course helps prepare you to pursue this certificate.

Skills covered

Cloud SecurityNetwork SecurityCert PrepCybersecurityCloud Computing

Concepts

Introduction

  • CCSK introduction and overview

Cloud Computing Concepts and Architectures

  • Cloud computing definition
  • Cloud service models
  • Cloud deployment models
  • Reference architecture models
  • Cloud security scope responsibilities

Cloud Governance

  • Cloud governance
  • Cloud governance hierarchy

Risk, Audit, and Compliance

  • Cloud risk-management overview
  • Assessing cloud services
  • Compliance
  • Audit inheritance and artifacts

Organization Management

  • Organization hierarchy models
  • Managing organization-level security
  • Considerations for hybrid and multicloud deployments

Identity and Access Management

  • Identity and access management terminology
  • Federation
  • AuthZ and AuthN in the cloud

Security Monitoring

  • Security monitoring
  • Cloud telemetry sources and architecture

Infrastructure and Networking

  • Infrastructure and networking overview
  • Cloud network security and secure architectures

Cloud Workload Security

  • Introduction to cloud workload security
  • Securing containers
  • Securing serverless and function as a service (FaaS)
  • Threats to AI workloads
  • AI workload risk mitigation

Data Security

  • Cloud storage
  • Data security tools and techniques
  • Cloud data key management strategies

Application Security

  • Secure design and architecture
  • Secure coding, continuous build, integration, and testing
  • Continuous delivery and deployment
  • Runtime defense and monitoring

Incident Response and Resilience

  • Definition of incident and related terms
  • Incident preparation
  • Incident detection and analysis
  • Containment, eradication, recovery, and postanalysis

Related Technologies and Strategies

  • Zero Trust technical objectives
  • AI as a service (AIaaS)
80,000 Toman