Cloud Computing Security Knowledge (CCSK)

Hours: 30 / Access Length: 12 Months / Delivery: Online, 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.

Certification(s):

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

System Requirements:

• Cable and DSL internet connections are recommended for the best experience.

• CPU: 1 GHz or higher
• RAM: 2 GB or higher
• Resolution: 1280 x 720 or higher
• Speakers / Headphones
• Microphone (Webinar / Live Online sessions)

• Microsoft Windows 7 or 10 (Home, Pro)
• Mac OSX 10 or higher.
• Latest Chrome OS
• Latest Linux Distributions

NOTE: While we understand that our courses can be viewed on Android and iPhone devices, we do not recommend the use of these devices for our courses. The size of these devices do not provide a good learning environment for students taking online or live online based courses.

• Latest Google Chrome is recommended for the best experience.
• Latest Mozilla FireFox
• Latest Microsoft Edge
• Latest Apple Safari

• Office suite software (Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, or LibreOffice)
• PDF reader program (Adobe Reader, FoxIt)
• Courses may require other software that is denoted in the above course outline.