Cloud Management and Security: Principles and Best Practice

Why Attend

Cloud computing is a new concept using old technologies. It has quickly become a vital tool in organizations across all industries as an Internet-scale computing infrastructure. Nevertheless, despite Cloud computing’s increasing relevance and popularity, there is a lack of understanding of the security risks associated with Clouds and optimal approaches for migration into Clouds. This course covers these from a practical angle; specifically, it covers Cloud computing architecture, management services, and security challenges. It also discusses Cloud migration planning and the main requirements to move current Cloud untrusted infrastructure to a trustworthy Internet-scale Cloud critical computing infrastructure.

Overview

Course Outline

Schedule & Fees

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

Cloud overview

Cloud definition, misconceptions and evolution
Cloud services and deployment types
Challenges

Cloud management

Cloud structure and its properties
Virtual and application layer management services
Cloud dynamic nature and its challenges
Application development and integration within clouds
Security best practices for automating cloud infrastructure management
Clarifying the concepts using industrial platforms

Establishing trust in clouds

Defining cloud trustworthiness

Its properties

Assessing cloud trustworthiness
Establishing trust in:

Private
Hybrid
Community
Public cloud deployment types

Establishing trust in:

IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service)
PaaS (Platform as a Service)
SaaS (Software as a Service)

Clarifying the concepts using open stack management platform

Identity and access management

Authentication
Authorization
Access management
Federated access management
Insiders vs attackers
Insiders analysis and management
Related industrial tools:

Cloud insider treatments
Cloud strong authentication

Provenance in clouds

Definition and attributes
Challenges faced
Security risks mitigation using provenance
Case studies for using provenance:

Forensic investigation
Trustworthy operational management
Proactive and predictive management
Bill assurance

Related industrial tools

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