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Cybersecurity in the Cloud Specialization
University of Minnesota

Cybersecurity in the Cloud Specialization

Defend Your Cloud from Cyberattacks. Detect and block hackers with off-the-shelf cyber-defenses

Rick Smith

Instructor: Rick Smith

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Specialization - 4 course series

Cloud Security Basics

Course 112 hours4.3 (103 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Design a simple cloud service and select appropriate security measures to protect it.

  • Associate user roles with appropriate entities deploying or using a cloud service.

  • Assess levels of risk and recent vulnerabilities that apply to cloud services.

  • Learn and apply basic network security techniques in the cloud environment.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Cloud Security
Category: Virtualization
Category: Network Security
Category: Cryptography
Category: Public Key Infrastructure
Category: Cybersecurity
Category: Authentications
Category: Information Systems Security
Category: Cloud Computing Security
Category: Encryption
Category: Vulnerability Assessments
Category: Application Security
Category: Authorization (Computing)
Category: Virtual Machines
Category: Private Cloud
Category: Cloud Computing
Category: Infrastructure Security
Category: Network Cryptography
Category: Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)

Cloud Data Security

Course 210 hours4.3 (24 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • How to analyze a data breach and trace it back to the vulnerability that made it possible.

  • How data security and privacy requirements arise from legal obligations and industry standards.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Cloud Services
Category: Cloud Security
Category: Database security basics
Category: Data Security
Category: Data Integrity
Category: Compare cloud data services
Category: Personally Identifiable Information
Category: Relational Databases
Category: Information Privacy
Category: SQL
Category: PCI-DSS basics
Category: Security Controls
Category: Encryption
Category: Analyze a data breach
Category: Cloud Storage
Category: General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Category: Data Encryption Standard
Category: HIPAA basics

Cloud Application Security

Course 35 hours4.3 (24 ratings)

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: Cloud Security
Category: Web Services
Category: Cryptography
Category: Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
Category: Key Management
Category: Multi-Factor Authentication
Category: Identity and Access Management
Category: Authentications
Category: Threat Modeling
Category: Security Controls
Category: Secure Coding
Category: Cloud Applications
Category: Application Security
Category: DevSecOps
Category: Cloud Computing

Cloud Top Ten Risks

Course 49 hours4.6 (26 ratings)

What you'll learn

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University of Minnesota
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