Cloud Data, Platform, and Applications Security by Pearson
5h 20mIntermediate2026-02-24
Authors
Pearson
Course details
Do you have what it takes to protect every layer of your cloud environment? In this course, learn how to secure cloud data throughout its entire lifecycle--from creation and storage to usage, sharing, archiving, and destruction. Gain practical skills in data classification, data obfuscation, and key and certificate management to enforce strong data security policies and maintain compliance. Explore cloud platform and infrastructure security, including designing secure physical data centers, network architectures, virtualization, cloud compute and storage components, and management planes. Along the way, learn how to identify vulnerabilities, mitigate risks, and develop effective business continuity and disaster recovery plans to ensure resilient cloud operations. This course is an ideal fit for IT professionals, cloud security specialists, system administrators, cloud architects, developers, and anyone responsible for securing cloud environments.
Learning objectives
Secure cloud data across all lifecycle phases, including creation, storage, usage, sharing, archiving, and destruction.
Classify data, apply data obfuscation, and manage keys, secrets, and certificates effectively.
Design and protect cloud platforms and infrastructure including physical data centers, network environments, virtualization, compute, and storage resources.
Identify cloud vulnerabilities, assess risks, and implement mitigation strategies to safeguard cloud environments.
Develop and execute robust business continuity and disaster recovery plans tailored for cloud infrastructures.
Apply cloud application security best practices including secure software development lifecycle (SDLC), threat modeling, secure coding, and OWASP API security.
Manage third-party software risks and enforce software assurance and validation processes Implement cloud identity and access management (IAM) solutions, such as federated identity, single sign-on (SSO), multifactor authentication (MFA), and cloud access security brokers (CASBs).
Enforce strict access controls and secrets management to protect sensitive cloud resources.
Learning objectives
Secure cloud data across all lifecycle phases, including creation, storage, usage, sharing, archiving, and destruction.
Classify data, apply data obfuscation, and manage keys, secrets, and certificates effectively.
Design and protect cloud platforms and infrastructure including physical data centers, network environments, virtualization, compute, and storage resources.
Identify cloud vulnerabilities, assess risks, and implement mitigation strategies to safeguard cloud environments.
Develop and execute robust business continuity and disaster recovery plans tailored for cloud infrastructures.
Apply cloud application security best practices including secure software development lifecycle (SDLC), threat modeling, secure coding, and OWASP API security.
Manage third-party software risks and enforce software assurance and validation processes Implement cloud identity and access management (IAM) solutions, such as federated identity, single sign-on (SSO), multifactor authentication (MFA), and cloud access security brokers (CASBs).
Enforce strict access controls and secrets management to protect sensitive cloud resources.
Concepts
Introduction
- Get up and running with cloud data
The Cloud Data Lifecycle
- Module introduction
- Learning objectives
- Phase 1 - Create
- Phase 2 - Store
- Phase 3 - Use
- Phase 4 - Share
- Phase 5 - Archive
- Phase 6 - Destroy
- Cloud data flows
Cloud Data Security
- Learning objectives
- Concepts of cloud data security
- Data obfuscation
- Information rights management
- Keys, secrets, and certificate management
- Data discovery
- Data classification and policy
- Auditability, traceability, and accountability
Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Components
- Module introduction
- Learning objectives
- Physical cloud environments
- Network cloud environments
- Cloud communications
- Core cloud compute resources
- Cloud virtualization resources
- Core cloud storage components
- Management plane cloud solutions
Data Center Design and Risk Analysis
- Learning objectives
- Secure data center logical design
- Physical data center design
- Data center environmental design
- Design resilient environments
- Cloud infrastructure risk assessment
- Cloud vulnerabilities, threats, and attacks
- Cloud infrastructure risk mitigation strategies
Cloud Business Continuity Planning
- Learning objectives
- Business continuity planning
- Business impact analysis
- Backup and restore policies
- Disaster recovery planning
- Disaster recovery plan testing strategies
Application Security Awareness and Lifecycles
- Module introduction
- Learning objectives
- Cloud application architecture elements
- Cloud development
- SDLC business requirements and phases
- Common software vulnerabilities
- Software threat modeling methods
- Secure coding methodologies
- Software configuration management and versioning
Software Assurance and Validation
- Learning objectives
- Functional vs. nonfunctional testing
- Security testing methodologies
- Abuse case testing
- OWASP API security
- Supply chain management
- Third-party software management
Identity and Access Management (IAM) Solutions
- Learning objectives
- Cloud IAM services
- Federated identity
- Identity providers
- Single sign-on
- Multifactor authentication
- Cloud access security brokers
- Managed security service providers
- Secrets management
Conclusion
- Summary and next steps