Online Course – Certified Professional Internship in Cybersecurity in the Cloud from the University of Minnesota

Protect your cloud from cyber attacks. Detect and block hackers with commercially available cyber defenses.

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קורס אונליין - התמחות מקצועית מוסמכת בCybersecurity in the Cloud של University of Minnesota

Professional Certificate

Beginners

No prior knowledge required

Time to complete the course

7-day free trial

No unnecessary risks

Skills you will acquire in the course

  • Cloud vulnerability assessment and attack reports.
  • Understanding of cloud provider documentation.
  • Implementing security measures for classic information security risks.

What you will learn in the course

Courses for which the course is suitable

  • Software developers
  • Information security experts
  • Vulnerability analysts
  • Cloud project managers
  • IT people
  • Information Security Consultants
  • Cloud application developers
  • Information Systems Administrators

Internship – a four-part course series

This specialization offers an introduction to information security for beginning developers. It introduces basic security concepts and how they are embodied in cloud projects.

Acquired skills

  • Cloud vulnerability assessment and attack reports.
  • Understanding of cloud provider documentation.
  • Implementing security measures for classic information security risks.

Hands-on Learning Project

Learners evaluate cloud vulnerabilities and attack reports according to the United States National Documentation Standards. They are familiar with cloud provider documentation and how to implement available security measures.

Details of the courses that make up the specialization

Cloud Security Basics

Course 1

Duration: 12 hours

Rating: 4.4 (98 ratings)

What will you learn?

  • Design a simple cloud service and choose appropriate security measures to protect it.
  • Assign user roles to the appropriate parties deploying or using a cloud service.
  • Assess current risk levels and vulnerabilities applicable to cloud services.
  • Learn and implement basic network security techniques in the cloud environment.

Skills you will acquire

  • Cloud computing security
  • Cyber ​​Security
  • Network security
  • Retinal cryptography
  • Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)

Cloud data security

Course 2

Duration: 10 hours

Rating: 4.3 (21 ratings)

What will you learn?

  • How to analyze a data leak and go back to the vulnerability that made it possible.
  • How data security and privacy requirements arise from legal obligations and industry standards.

Skills you will acquire

  • HIPAA Basics
  • Data Leak Analysis
  • PCI-DSS Basics
  • Comparing cloud data services
  • Database Security Basics

Cloud application security

Course 3

Duration: 5 hours

Rating: 4.2 (21 ratings)

What will you learn?

  • List and describe the 10 main vulnerabilities according to OWASP.
  • Identify methods to provide confidence in cloud security as part of the development lifecycle.
  • List and describe the different types of virtualization or sandboxing.
  • Describe the implementation of authentication factors and federated identity solutions.
  • Explain where and how cryptographic keys and other security secrets should be stored and distributed.

The top ten risks in the cloud

Course 4

Duration: 9 hours

Rating: 4.6 (21 ratings)

What will you learn?

  • Associate lists of OWASP’s top ten risks with key cloud cybersecurity risks.
  • Implement appropriate cryptographic techniques to secure authentication mechanisms and cloud data.
  • Identify the most effective strategies to resist attacks.
  • Evaluate strategies for dealing with the risks arising from administrative failures.

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