Cloud Security Essentials

Cloud Security Essentials introduces the security concepts required to use and support cloud services safely. Learners examine shared responsibility, identities,...

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Programme overview

Cloud Security Essentials introduces the security concepts required to use and support cloud services safely. Learners examine shared responsibility, identities, networking, data, workloads, monitoring, incident response, continuity, governance, and compliance across common cloud models. Participants will analyse cloud architectures and practise applying identity, data, network, workload, monitoring, incident-response, and governance controls to realistic cloud scenarios.

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At a glance

Course code: EC-023
Provider: EC-Council
Category: Cloud Security Fundamentals
Status: By Enquiry
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What participants should gain

Explain cloud models, architecture, and shared responsibility
Apply fundamental identity, network, data, and workload controls
Recognise common cloud threats and configuration weaknesses
Support monitoring, incident response, backup, and recovery
Understand governance, privacy, compliance, and secure cloud use

Participant readiness

Basic computer, internet, and networking knowledge
General awareness of cloud services is helpful
No previous cloud-security experience required

Who this course is for

Cloud engineers, architects, administrators, security analysts, and consultants
IT professionals responsible for cloud workloads, identity, networks, data, or operations
Security professionals assessing or protecting cloud and hybrid environments

How the course is delivered

This programme will be conducted through interactive lectures, cloud-architecture walkthroughs, configuration demonstrations, guided labs, scenario analysis, group discussions, and security-assessment activities.

Course outline

Module and topic breakdown

Module 1: Cloud Computing Fundamentals

Cloud service models, deployment models, regions, availability zones, and shared responsibility

Module 2: Cloud Architecture and Shared Responsibility

Cloud reference architectures, accounts or subscriptions, landing zones, and organisational structure

Module 3: Cloud Threats, Risks, and Security Principles

Assets, threat scenarios, vulnerabilities, and attack surfaces addressed by Cloud Threats, Risks, and Security Principles

Module 4: Identity and Access Management

Users, groups, roles, policies, service identities, and permission inheritance

Module 5: Cloud Network Security

Virtual networks, subnets, route tables, gateways, load balancers, DNS, and connectivity

Module 6: Cloud Data Protection and Cryptography

Confidentiality, integrity, authentication, non-repudiation, and cryptographic trust

Module 7: Application and Workload Security

Security of virtual machines, containers, serverless functions, applications, and managed services

Module 8: Cloud Monitoring and Incident Response

Preparation, detection, analysis, containment, eradication, recovery, and lessons learned

Module 9: Backup, Recovery, and Business Continuity

Continuity objectives, critical services, dependencies, recovery priorities, and governance

Module 10: Governance, Privacy, and Compliance

Governance structures, policies, decision rights, accountability, and oversight committees

Assessment and completion

Continuous knowledge checks and facilitator feedback throughout the programme
Completion of guided exercises, scenarios, labs, or case-study activities applicable to the course
Final review or practical activity to confirm understanding of the stated course objectives
Official EC-Council examination and certification requirements depend on the selected training package and current exam version

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