Secure Cloud Computing

Cloud computing offers numerous benefits for organisations, in terms of their operational computing requirements. Cloud services are typically flexible and scalable; provide high availability and performance and are charged within �pay-as-you-utilise� pricing models.

However, as the adoption of cloud computing continues to grow, organisations and their associated consumers have become increasingly popular targets for malicious actors, who aim to exfiltrate information, deploy malware, and find opportunities for criminal activities amongst many other motivations.

In this module students will acquire an extensive insight to cloud principles and concepts, data asset management and protection, IAM, vulnerability management, implementing security controls, detecting, responding to, and recovering from incidents. Indicative details include shared security responsibility, least privilege, defence in depth, threat actors, diagrams, trust boundaries, cloud delivery models, regulatory requirements, tagging cloud resources, protecting data in the cloud.