CLOUD MANAGEMENT & SECURITY: PRINCIPLES & BEST PRACTICE

Course Methodology

This course is highly interactive and includes group discussions, case studies and syndicate work. It also includes practical exercises that allow all participants to use the knowledge they gained to demonstrate their skills in cloud management and security.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Understand cloud strengths and misconceptions, and discuss its benefits and weaknesses
• Explain cloud structure, properties and management services
• Set a cloud adoption strategy
• Discuss the main requirements to move current cloud untrusted infrastructure to a trustworthy internet-scale cloud critical computing infrastructure
• Analyze the major risks associated with the different cloud services and deployment models
• Discuss the main principles, mechanisms and best practices for treating cloud risks
• Demonstrate the discussed concepts using practical case studies, business models and industrial tools

Target Audience

IT and infrastructure leaders, decision makers (CxO), risk analysts, strategic planners, architects, administrators, software and business developers, and project managers

Target Competencies

• Cloud management
• Identity management
• Access management
• Security risks management