Cloud Security Basics

This course introduces you to cybersecurity for the cloud. We'll learn and apply classic security techniques to today’s cloud security problems. We start with a deceptively simple and secure web service and address the problems arising as we improve it. We’ll analyze recent cloud security vulnerabilities using standard, systematic techniques. We’ll build our own web service case studies and construct security solutions for them. Our toolkit contains classic security concepts like Least Privilege

• Design simple cloud services and apply appropriate security measures
• Associate user roles with cloud service entities
• Assess cloud service risks and vulnerabilities
• Apply basic network security techniques in cloud environments