Cloud Security Considerations for General Industry

Course details

Is your business looking to make a move to cloud computing? In this course, instructor Kevin L. Jackson explores the cybersecurity challenges impacting businesses in non-highly regulated industries. Kevin explores the cloud security requirements specific to general industry, broken down by region: Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Oceania, Africa, and the Americas. He provides a preliminary overview of cloud computing and its vulnerabilities, as well as the general business approach to cybersecurity. He then provides regional breakdowns, exploring security requirements for each area. The course concludes with a review of key threats and some real-world case studies that show how different security controls can be used to defend enterprises from similar attacks.
Learning objectives

Cloud computing characteristics
Deployment and service models
IT implementation options
Cyber threats to general business
Regional data protection and privacy requirements
Examining risk and compliance requirements

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Protect general business data
02 - What you should know
03 - Security considerations for general business

1. Cloud Computing Overview

04 - Cloud computing key drivers
05 - Cloud computing characteristics
06 - Deployment models
07 - Service models
08 - IT implementation options
09 - Infrastructure attack vectors
10 - Software attack vectors
11 - Critical vulnerabilities

2. General Business Approach to Cybersecurity

12 - Examine security requirements within general business
13 - Cyber threats to general business
14 - Cyber organizations in general business

3. Regional Data Protection and Privacy Requirements

15 - Geographic impact
16 - Data protection and privacy requirements
17 - Data and privacy in Australia
18 - Data and privacy in China
19 - Data and privacy in Japan
20 - Data and privacy in India
21 - Data and privacy in Russia
22 - Data and privacy in Switzerland
23 - Data and privacy in Germany
24 - Data and privacy in the UK
25 - Data and privacy in Brazil
26 - Data and privacy in the United States
27 - Data and privacy in the Middle East and Africa

4. Regional Risk and Compliance Requirements

28 - Examine risk and compliance requirements
29 - Risk and compliance requirements in Asia
30 - Risk and compliance requirements in Europe
31 - Risk and compliance requirements in the Americas

5. Key Threats and Controls in Financial Cloud Security

32 - Treacherous 12
33 - Case Study - Dirty COW
34 - Case Study - Net Traveler

Conclusion

35 - Next steps