Cloud Security Basics
Cloud Security Basics
This course is part of Cybersecurity in the Cloud Specialization
Instructor: Rick Smith
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What you'll learn
Design a simple cloud service and select appropriate security measures to protect it.
Associate user roles with appropriate entities deploying or using a cloud service.
Assess levels of risk and recent vulnerabilities that apply to cloud services.
Learn and apply basic network security techniques in the cloud environment.
Skills you'll gain
- Infrastructure Security
- Computer Security
- Vulnerability Management
- Authentications
- Application Security
- Virtualization
- Public Key Infrastructure
- Cloud Security
- Private Cloud
- Hardening
- Security Controls
- Remote Access Systems
- Network Security
- Cryptography
- Vulnerability Assessments
- Cryptographic Protocols
- Cybersecurity
- Cloud Computing
- Cyber Attacks
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There are 4 modules in this course
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 and Separation of Duty, as well as more technical cryptographic and access control techniques.
Here we introduce Internet server security in six steps, covering the first three in detail.
What's included
12 videos4 readings5 assignments1 peer review1 discussion prompt
12 videos•Total 65 minutes
- Welcome to Cloud Security Basics•5 minutes
- Introducing Internet Service Security•5 minutes
- Step 1: Isolated Desktop Service•8 minutes
- Scoring CIA Impacts•5 minutes
- Attacking the Step 1 System•5 minutes
- Step 2. Improved Robustness•7 minutes
- Step 3. Separated Duties•8 minutes
- User and Group Permissions•4 minutes
- A Discussion Forum Scenario•7 minutes
- Elements of an Internet Service Outline•4 minutes
- Service Outline Example: Discussion Forum•4 minutes
- Service Outline: Peer Review Assignment•2 minutes
4 readings•Total 17 minutes
- An overview of Cloud Security Basics•10 minutes
- Scenario 1-The Costly Schedule•1 minute
- Scenario 2-The Discussion Forum•1 minute
- Chapters from "Authentication: From Passwords to Public Keys"•5 minutes
5 assignments•Total 84 minutes
- Step 1•20 minutes
- Steps 1 through 3•20 minutes
- Internet Service Security•10 minutes
- Step 2•30 minutes
- Step 3•4 minutes
1 peer review•Total 60 minutes
- Service Outline of Scenario #1•60 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 15 minutes
- Unofficial Web Projects•15 minutes
We examine techniques to control how different hosts interact within a network.
What's included
7 videos3 assignments1 peer review1 discussion prompt
7 videos•Total 44 minutes
- Step 4. Adding Some Scale•9 minutes
- Network Addressing•7 minutes
- Network Protocol Layers•4 minutes
- Networking Devices•6 minutes
- Security Controls: Packet Filtering•8 minutes
- Circuit and Content Control•8 minutes
- Cloud Service Outline for Peer Review•3 minutes
3 assignments•Total 48 minutes
- Network Structure•10 minutes
- Traffic Filtering•8 minutes
- Network Layers and Addressing•30 minutes
1 peer review•Total 60 minutes
- Cloud Service Outline•60 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 10 minutes
- Wikipedia as a source•10 minutes
Modern systems rarely reside inside a single trust boundary. We use cryptography to protect information when it travels outside our trust boundary.
What's included
15 videos1 reading5 assignments1 peer review1 discussion prompt
15 videos•Total 75 minutes
- Step 5: Remote Administration•5 minutes
- Secret Sharing with Public-Key Crypto•4 minutes
- Transport Layer Security•4 minutes
- Hashing for Authentication•4 minutes
- Network Authentication•5 minutes
- TLS Message Integrity•5 minutes
- Classic SSL/TLS Using the RSA Cipher•6 minutes
- Authenticating Network Servers•5 minutes
- Digital Signatures•4 minutes
- Validating a Public-Key Certificate•5 minutes
- Who Signs a Public-Key Certificate?•5 minutes
- Delegation and Certificate Chains•4 minutes
- Securing the Step 5 Services•5 minutes
- Describing an Attack using CVSS•7 minutes
- Assessing a Vulnerability with CVSS•9 minutes
1 reading•Total 10 minutes
- Assessment of CVE-2019-9945•10 minutes
5 assignments•Total 30 minutes
- Crypto Authentication•5 minutes
- Server Authentication•5 minutes
- Public Key Certificates•10 minutes
- Step 5 Services•5 minutes
- Public Key Exchange and TLS•5 minutes
1 peer review•Total 80 minutes
- Use CVSS to Assess a Cloud Vulnerability•80 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 15 minutes
- Backing Up Computer Systems•15 minutes
The public cloud provides both operational benefits and security challenges. We use concepts from the earlier modules to address cloud security challenges.
What's included
8 videos1 reading2 assignments1 peer review
8 videos•Total 39 minutes
- Step 6. Public Cloud Hosting•4 minutes
- Deployment Models and Security•3 minutes
- Cloud Service Architecture•3 minutes
- Computer System Virtualization•3 minutes
- Process Virtualization•7 minutes
- Network Virtualization•5 minutes
- Protocol Layers and Cryptography•5 minutes
- Cloud Architecture and Security Planning•7 minutes
1 reading•Total 10 minutes
- Notes on Constructing a Basic Cloud Security Plan•10 minutes
2 assignments•Total 45 minutes
- Virtualization and Network Crypto•15 minutes
- Cloud Architecture•30 minutes
1 peer review•Total 60 minutes
- Basic Cloud Security Plan•60 minutes
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It's very good course to learn basics of cloud security. Easy to understand and very insightful.
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