Cloud Computing Security Knowledge (CCSK)

30 Hours / 12 Months / Self-Paced
Retail Price: $599.00

Course Overview:

The Cloud Computing Security Knowledge class provides students thorough coverage of cloud security fundamentals and prepares them to take the Cloud Security Alliance CCSK certification exam. The course begins with a detailed description of cloud computing and then expands into all major domains such as; Governance and Risk Management, the Cloud Architectural Framework and Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery.

This course includes:

Visual Demonstrations & Multimedia Presentations
Quizzes & Exam Simulators
Social Learning & Networking
Flash Cards & Educational Games
Enhanced Navigation and Controls

This course prepares the student to take the CSA Cloud Computing Security Knowledge (CCSK) certification exam.

Course Outline:

Lesson 1: Architecture

NIST Definitions
Essential Characteristics
Service Models
Deployment Models
Multi-Tenancy
CSA Cloud Reference Model
Jericho Cloud Cube Model
Cloud Security Reference Model
Cloud Service Brokers
Service Level Agreements

Lesson 2: Governance and Enterprise Risk Management

Contractual Security Requirements
Enterprise and Information Risk Management
Third Party Management Recommendations
Supply chain examination
Use of Cost Savings for Cloud

Lesson 3: Legal Issues: Contracts and Electronic Discovery

Consideration of cloud-related issues in three dimensions
eDiscovery considerations
Jurisdictions and data locations
Liability for activities of subcontractors
Due diligence responsibility
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and electronically stored information
Metadata
Litigation hold

Lesson 4: Compliance and Audit Management

Definition of Compliance
Right to audit
Compliance impact on cloud contracts
Audit scope and compliance scope
Compliance analysis requirements
Auditor requirements

Lesson 5: Information Management and Data Security

Six phases of the Data Security Lifecycle and their key elements
Volume storage
Object storage
Logical vs physical locations of data
Three valid options for protecting data
Data Loss Prevention
Detection Data Migration to the Cloud
Encryption in IaaS, PaaS & SaaS
Database Activity Monitoring and File Activity Monitoring
Data Backup
Data Dispersion
Data Fragmentation

Lesson 6: Interoperability and Portability

Definitions of Portability and Interoperability
Virtualization impacts on Portability and Interoperability
SAML and WS-Security
Size of Data Sets
Lock-In considerations by IaaS, PaaS & SaaS delivery models
Mitigating hardware compatibility issues

Lesson 7: Traditional Security, Business Continuity, and Disaster Recovery

Four D’s of perimeter security
Cloud backup and disaster recovery services
Customer due diligence related to BCM/DR
Business Continuity Management/Disaster Recovery due diligence
Restoration Plan
Physical location of cloud provider

Lesson 8: Data Center Operations

Relation to Cloud Controls Matrix
Queries run by data center operators
Technical aspects of a Provider’s data center operations for customers
Logging and report generation in multi-site clouds

Lesson 9: Incident Response

Factor allowing for more efficient and effective containment and recovery in a cloud
Main data source for detection and analysis of an incident
Investigating and containing an incident in an Infrastructure as a Service environment
Reducing the occurrence of application level incidents
How often should incident response testing occur
Offline analysis of potential incidents

Lesson 10: Application Security

Identity, entitlement, and access management (IdEA)
SDLC impact and implications
Differences in S-P-I models
Consideration when performing a remote vulnerability test of a cloud-based application
Categories of security monitoring for applications
Entitlement matrix

Lesson 11: Encryption and Key Management

Adequate encryption protection of data in the cloud
Key management best practices, location of keys, keys per user
Relationship to tokenization, masking, anonymization and cloud database controls

Lesson 12: Identity, Entitlement, and Access Management

Relationship between identities and attributes
Identity Federation
Relationship between Policy Decision Point (PDP) and Policy Enforcement Point (PEP)
SAML and WS-Federation
Provisioning and authoritative sources

Lesson 13: Virtualization

Security concerns for hypervisor architecture
VM guest hardening, blind spots, VM Sprawl, data comingling, instant-on gaps
In-Motion VM characteristics that can create a serious complexity for audits
How can virtual machine communications bypass network security controls
VM attack surfaces
Compartmentalization of VMs

Lesson 14: Security as a Service

10 categories
Barriers to developing full confidence in security as a service (SECaaS)
Deployment of Security as a Service in a regulated industry prior SLA
Logging and reporting implications
How can web security as a service be deployed
What measures do Security as a Service providers take to earn the trust of their customers
ENISA Cloud Computing: Benefits, Risks and Recommendations for Information Security
Isolation failure
Economic Denial of Service
Licensing Risks
VM hopping
Five key legal issues common across all scenarios
Top security risks in ENISA research
OVF
Underlying vulnerability in Loss of Governance
User provisioning vulnerability
Risk concerns of a cloud provider being acquired
Security benefits of cloud
Risks
Data controller vs data processor definitions in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), who is responsible for guest systems monitoring

All necessary materials are included.

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