CCSK Cert Prep: 6 Cloud Security Operations
1h 20mIntermediate2021-09-10
Authors

Daniel Lachance
Consultant, Trainer, Author, and Editor at Lachance IT Consulting
Course details
As a security-minded professional—particularly one looking to pass the Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK) exam—you must know how to properly evaluate cloud providers and their service offerings. In this installment of the CCSK Cert Prep series, instructor Daniel Lachance shows you how, sharing factors to consider when assessing cloud service providers. He also covers a variety of cloud security services such as public key infrastructure (PKI) certificate authorities and network firewalls. Plus, learn how to map common hardening techniques to the Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM).
Skills covered
Cloud SecurityNetwork SecurityCybersecurityCert PrepCloud Computing
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Security operations in the cloud
- 02 - What you should know
1. Cloud Adoption
- 03 - Evaluating cloud providers
- 04 - IT auditing in the cloud
- 05 - Cloud adoption and migration
- 06 - OWASP Top 10
2. Cloud Security Services
- 07 - IT security mechanisms
- 08 - Security as a service (SECaaS)
- 09 - Denial-of-service attack mitigation
- 10 - Deploying Azure Firewall
- 11 - The incident response lifecycle
3. PKI, Network Monitoring, and Hardening
- 12 - PKI
- 13 - Deploying a private CA and certificates
- 14 - Network flow logs
- 15 - Securing the management and data planes
Conclusion
- 16 - Next steps