Cloud Security
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A comprehensive course on cloud security covering cloud architecture, attack vectors, security controls, data protection, compliance, and forensics — aligned with CSA, NIST, and ENISA guidelines.
Instructor: Ashish Revar
Unit 1
Foundational concepts of cloud computing: characteristics, service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), deployment models, security design principles, cloud architecture patterns, and an introduction to virtualisation with VMware.
Unit 2
Cloud-specific attack surfaces and threat landscape: service hijacking, session hijacking, DoS and DDoS attacks, man-in-the-cloud attacks, cloud-specific vulnerabilities, and privacy issues in cloud-based IT services.
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Regions, availability zones, control planes, defence in depth, Zero Trust, Type-1 and Type-2 hypervisors, hardware-assisted virtualization, and why containers are not VMs: the architectural layer that cloud security sits on top of.