Cloud Workload Protection A Complete Guide
You're under pressure. Systems are moving fast, threats are evolving faster, and your team is stretched thin. Misconfigurations slip through, compliance gaps widen, and one incident could cost millions - not just in fines, but in lost trust. You know cloud security is critical, but piecing together tools, frameworks, and best practices on your own? That’s exhausting, risky, and eating time you don't have. The truth is, most organisations are reactive, not resilient. You need a proven, structured approach - not theory, not hype, but actionable clarity. Cloud Workload Protection A Complete Guide is your definitive roadmap to mastering end-to-end workload security across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments. This isn’t just another checklist. It’s the blueprint top-tier security architects use to protect critical assets from day one of deployment. Imagine walking into your next audit with confidence. Deploying new workloads knowing they’re secure by design. Communicating risk in business terms - not jargon. One architect at a Fortune 500 tech firm reduced incident response time by 68% after applying the frameworks in this course. “It transformed how we integrate security into CI/CD pipelines,” they said. “We caught a critical vulnerability pre-production that would’ve exposed customer data.” This course takes you from uncertainty to authority. In under 30 days, you’ll go from fragmented knowledge to owning a board-ready strategy for securing containers, serverless functions, VMs, and orchestrated environments - with a comprehensive implementation plan you can adapt immediately. Built for technical leads, cloud architects, and security engineers who need results, not fluff. Here’s how this course is structured to help you get there.Course Format & Delivery Details This is a self-paced, on-demand learning experience with immediate online access. Start the moment you enrol. No fixed schedules. No deadlines. Study when it fits, wherever you are. Lifetime Access, Zero Expiry
Once enrolled, you receive permanent access to all course content. This includes every module, tool reference, and framework template - now and in the future. All updates are delivered automatically at no extra cost. As cloud threats evolve, your knowledge stays current. Designed for Real-World Results
Most learners complete the core curriculum in 25 to 30 hours. Many apply the first critical control within 72 hours of starting. You’ll see measurable progress from the very first module - whether that’s securing an AWS EC2 launch template, hardening a Kubernetes PodSpec, or building a zero-trust policy matrix. Accessible Anytime, Anywhere
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Upon finishing, you'll earn a verifiable Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service - a globally recognised credential trusted by security teams in over 70 countries. Employers consistently rank this certification among the top differentiators for promotion and project leadership in cloud security roles. Transparent Pricing, No Hidden Fees
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Shortly after registering, you'll receive a confirmation email. Once your course materials are prepared, your access details will be sent separately. This ensures all content is updated, accurate, and optimised for your learning journey. This Works - Even If You’re:
- New to cloud-native security but need to own it fast
- Transitioning from on-prem security and feeling out of sync with CI/CD workflows
- Overwhelmed by too many tools and unclear prioritisation
- Responsible for multi-cloud environments with inconsistent controls
- Required to meet compliance standards like ISO 27001, SOC 2, or NIST
One senior cloud engineer told us: “I’d failed two internal audits before taking this course. After applying Module 5 alone, we passed the next one with zero findings.” Your background doesn't matter - the system works if you follow it. We've eliminated every barrier: time, access, complexity, and risk. Now, here’s exactly what you’ll master.
Module 1: Foundations of Cloud Workload Protection - Understanding cloud workload definitions across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
- Key differences between traditional and cloud-native security
- Common cloud workload vulnerabilities and exploit paths
- Shared responsibility model deep dive by CSP (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Principles of workload identity and least privilege access
- Mapping workload protection to business risk and continuity
- Overview of cloud-native application architectures
- Security implications of auto-scaling and dynamic workloads
- Integrating security into cloud financial operations (FinOps)
- Baseline compliance requirements across industries
Module 2: Threat Landscape and Risk Assessment - Top 10 current threats to cloud workloads (2024 trends)
- MITRE ATT&CK for Cloud: mapping adversary tactics to workloads
- Threat modelling methodologies for cloud-native applications
- Identifying crown jewel assets in distributed systems
- Conducting cloud-specific risk assessments
- Using DREAD and STRIDE frameworks in cloud contexts
- Automated risk scoring for container and VM workloads
- Prioritising risks based on exploitability and impact
- Security implications of third-party dependencies
- Benchmarks for acceptable risk thresholds in cloud environments
Module 3: Architectural Principles for Secure Design - Zero Trust architecture for cloud workloads
- Principle of least functionality applied to cloud instances
- Immutable infrastructure and its security benefits
- Designing for failure: secure degradation patterns
- Secure network segmentation in public cloud
- Micro-segmentation techniques for workload isolation
- Hardening virtual machine images at creation
- Secure boot and measured boot implementation
- Enforcing security through infrastructure as code (IaC)
- Designing resilient logging and telemetry from inception
Module 4: Identity and Access Management (IAM) for Workloads - Differentiating human vs. machine identities
- Workload identity federation: concept and implementation
- Service accounts best practices in AWS, Azure, GCP
- Managing short-lived credentials and tokens
- Role chaining and cross-account access controls
- Just-in-time access for privileged workloads
- Tag-based permissions and attribute-based access control (ABAC)
- Monitoring and alerting on anomalous identity behaviour
- Automated IAM policy optimisation and cleanup
- Integrating identity with cloud workload protection platforms
Module 5: Security Hardening of Compute Resources - OS-level hardening for cloud VMs (Linux and Windows)
- Disabling unnecessary services and ports automatically
- Applying CIS Benchmarks to cloud instances
- Hardening kernel parameters for security
- Configuring secure boot and UEFI enforcement
- Enabling and managing SELinux and AppArmor policies
- File integrity monitoring (FIM) configuration
- System call filtering and eBPF-based monitoring
- Using custom AMIs and Golden Images securely
- Automated patching strategies for cloud workloads
Module 6: Container Security Fundamentals - Container threat model and attack surface analysis
- Secure container image creation and signing
- Minimising base image size and attack surface
- Best practices for Dockerfile security
- Image vulnerability scanning integration in CI/CD
- Using trusted registries and private repositories
- Immutable tags and image immutability enforcement
- Container runtime security configurations
- Limiting container capabilities (e.g., --cap-drop)
- Setting read-only filesystems and non-root users
Module 7: Kubernetes Security Deep Dive - Kubernetes control plane hardening techniques
- Securing etcd data store encryption
- APIServer authentication and authorisation settings
- RBAC policy design for service accounts and users
- PodSecurity Policies and admission controllers
- Network policies for namespace isolation
- Securing ingress and egress traffic in clusters
- Hardening kubelet and node configurations
- Secrets management using native and external tools
- Monitoring for drift and configuration non-compliance
Module 8: Serverless and Function-as-a-Service Security - Understanding the serverless security model
- Function permissions and least privilege principle
- Input validation and injection attack prevention
- Securing environment variables and configuration
- Monitoring function execution and concurrency
- Logging and tracing in event-driven architectures
- Throttling and denial-of-service protections
- Source code protection in automated deployments
- Data leakage risks in temporary storage
- Integrating observability without sacrificing security
Module 9: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Security - Security risks in Terraform, CloudFormation, and Pulumi
- Immutable infrastructure and security consistency
- Automated IaC scanning tools and integrations
- Preventing hardcoded secrets in configuration files
- Enforcing tagging and naming conventions
- Practising policy as code with OPA and Rego
- Writing custom security guardrails for IaC
- Using Sentinel for HashiCorp enforcement policies
- Version control and change approval workflows
- Automated drift detection and remediation
Module 10: Secure CI/CD Pipeline Integration - Shifting security left in development pipelines
- Integrating SAST tools in build stages
- Container image scanning in pre-deployment
- Policy enforcement gates in deployment workflows
- Secure secrets injection during pipeline execution
- Verifying digital signatures in artefact promotion
- Using ephemeral environments for testing
- Automated rollback mechanisms on policy failure
- Audit trails for all deployment activities
- Role-based access to pipeline configurations
Module 11: Runtime Protection and Detection - Host-based intrusion detection systems (HIDS) in the cloud
- Behavioural monitoring for anomalous workload activity
- Process execution whitelisting and blacklisting
- Network connection monitoring and alerting
- Real-time file integrity checks
- Detecting crypto-mining and unauthorised compute usage
- Memory protection and anti-exploitation techniques
- Integrating with SIEM and SOAR platforms
- Setting intelligent alert thresholds to reduce noise
- Automated response playbooks for common threats
Module 12: Logging, Monitoring, and Observability - Centralised logging architecture for cloud workloads
- Enabling detailed audit logging across CSPs
- Structured logging formats (JSON, OpenTelemetry)
- Log retention policies aligned with compliance
- Monitoring for unauthorised API calls
- Correlating logs across services and regions
- Creating custom detection rules and dashboards
- Using metrics for capacity and security insights
- Distributed tracing for identifying attack paths
- Redacting sensitive data in logs automatically
Module 13: Encryption and Data Protection - Data-at-rest encryption for EBS, disks, and databases
- Data-in-transit: TLS best practices and cipher suites
- Customer-managed vs. provider-managed keys
- Key rotation and lifecycle management policies
- Using KMS and Hardware Security Modules (HSM)
- Encrypting container and function storage volumes
- Secure secret storage solutions (Hashicorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager)
- Tokenisation and masking for PII
- Enforcing encryption in infrastructure policies
- Validating encryption settings across environments
Module 14: Network Security for Cloud Workloads - Designing secure VPC and subnet architectures
- Controlling ingress and egress with security groups
- Using Network ACLs for stateless filtering
- Implementing private subnets and NAT gateways
- Securing inter-VPC and cross-account traffic
- Cloud firewalls and WAF integration for workloads
- PrivateLink and Private Service Connect configurations
- Monitoring DNS queries for malicious resolution
- Enforcing DNS over HTTPS and secure forwarders
- Segmenting management and data plane traffic
Module 15: Automation and Orchestration Security - Securing orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, Nomad)
- Controlling automation script execution permissions
- Signing and verifying automation playbooks
- Hardening configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet)
- Managing credentials for automated workflows
- Preventing privilege escalation via automation
- Logging all automated changes for auditability
- Validating state convergence securely
- Using immutable automation agents
- Integrating with change advisory boards (CAB)
Module 16: Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) - Overview of top CWPP solutions and capabilities
- Workload inventory and discovery automation
- Agent-based vs. agentless deployment models
- Integrating with CSP-native tools (GuardDuty, Defender)
- Policy management and enforcement at scale
- Compliance reporting and dashboarding features
- Incident response workflows within CWPP
- Evaluating vendor capabilities against your needs
- Cost optimisation and licensing models
- Continuous assessment and adaptive protection
Module 17: Compliance and Audit Readiness - Mapping controls to ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIST, and CIS
- Preparing for cloud-specific compliance audits
- Generating automated compliance reports
- Documenting security configurations and decisions
- Implementing role-based access for auditors
- Using tagging for compliance boundary identification
- Automating evidence collection workflows
- Handling third-party audit requests securely
- Maintaining audit trails for 7+ years if required
- Conducting internal compliance self-assessments
Module 18: Incident Response and Recovery - Developing cloud-specific incident response playbooks
- Isolating compromised workloads without downtime
- Forensic data collection in ephemeral environments
- Snapshotting disks and memory securely
- Analysing logs for attack timelines
- Coordinating with CSP incident response teams
- Containment strategies for containerised workloads
- Automated rollback to known-good states
- Post-incident review and control improvements
- Communicating incidents to stakeholders clearly
Module 19: Advanced Threat Prevention Techniques - Runtime application self-protection (RASP) integration
- Memory scanning for malware and exploits
- Preventing DLL injection and code cave attacks
- Detecting living-off-the-land binaries (LOLBins)
- Blocking unauthorised PowerShell and command execution
- Using eBPF for low-level telemetry and enforcement
- Kernel-level protection mechanisms
- Preventing container breakout attempts
- Hardening gRPC and inter-service communication
- Enforcing code signing for all executables
Module 20: Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Workload Security - Consistent policy enforcement across CSPs
- Unifying identity and access management
- Centralised monitoring and alerting dashboard
- Standardising logging formats and export
- Deploying agents consistently in heterogeneous environments
- Managing encryption key interoperability
- Handling network peering and transit routing securely
- Security considerations for edge workloads
- Protecting workloads in co-located data centres
- Designing failover and disaster recovery securely
Module 21: Security Governance and Policy Management - Defining organisation-wide cloud security policies
- Establishing change control processes
- Enforcing standards through automated tools
- Creating security review gates for deployments
- Managing exceptions and justifications
- Conducting regular policy reviews and updates
- Aligning security policies with business objectives
- Training teams on policy adherence
- Measuring policy compliance rates
- Escalating non-compliance to leadership
Module 22: Culture and Team Enablement - Building a security-first culture in DevOps
- Security champion programmes for engineering teams
- Conducting secure coding workshops
- Running cloud security tabletop exercises
- Sharing threat intelligence across departments
- Recognising and rewarding secure practices
- Reducing friction between security and development
- Communicating risk in business impact terms
- Creating runbooks for common security tasks
- Onboarding new engineers with secure practices
Module 23: Metrics, KPIs, and Executive Reporting - Defining security metrics that matter to leadership
- Tracking mean time to detect (MTTD) and respond (MTTR)
- Measuring policy compliance percentage
- Calculating risk reduction over time
- Reporting on cloud security spend efficiency
- Visualising attack surface trends
- Dashboarding for CISO and board presentations
- Translating technical findings into business risk
- Setting security OKRs and measuring success
- Forecasting security capacity needs
Module 24: Real-World Implementation Projects - Project 1: Securing a 3-tier web application in AWS
- Project 2: Hardening a Kubernetes cluster from scratch
- Project 3: Building a secure CI/CD pipeline with policy gates
- Project 4: Migrating an on-prem app to serverless securely
- Project 5: Implementing zero trust for microservices
- Project 6: Designing a compliant multi-account AWS landing zone
- Project 7: Creating automated incident response workflows
- Project 8: Developing a custom IaC security policy
- Project 9: Conducting a full workload threat model
- Project 10: Delivering a board-ready cloud security roadmap
Module 25: Certification, Next Steps & Career Advancement - Preparing for the final assessment
- Submitting your implementation portfolio
- Review process for Certificate of Completion
- Leveraging your certification in performance reviews
- Adding the credential to LinkedIn and resumes
- Connecting with alumni and industry networks
- Advanced learning paths in cloud security
- Transitioning into cloud security architect roles
- Negotiating higher compensation with verified skills
- Staying current with The Art of Service update alerts
- Understanding cloud workload definitions across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS
- Key differences between traditional and cloud-native security
- Common cloud workload vulnerabilities and exploit paths
- Shared responsibility model deep dive by CSP (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Principles of workload identity and least privilege access
- Mapping workload protection to business risk and continuity
- Overview of cloud-native application architectures
- Security implications of auto-scaling and dynamic workloads
- Integrating security into cloud financial operations (FinOps)
- Baseline compliance requirements across industries
Module 2: Threat Landscape and Risk Assessment - Top 10 current threats to cloud workloads (2024 trends)
- MITRE ATT&CK for Cloud: mapping adversary tactics to workloads
- Threat modelling methodologies for cloud-native applications
- Identifying crown jewel assets in distributed systems
- Conducting cloud-specific risk assessments
- Using DREAD and STRIDE frameworks in cloud contexts
- Automated risk scoring for container and VM workloads
- Prioritising risks based on exploitability and impact
- Security implications of third-party dependencies
- Benchmarks for acceptable risk thresholds in cloud environments
Module 3: Architectural Principles for Secure Design - Zero Trust architecture for cloud workloads
- Principle of least functionality applied to cloud instances
- Immutable infrastructure and its security benefits
- Designing for failure: secure degradation patterns
- Secure network segmentation in public cloud
- Micro-segmentation techniques for workload isolation
- Hardening virtual machine images at creation
- Secure boot and measured boot implementation
- Enforcing security through infrastructure as code (IaC)
- Designing resilient logging and telemetry from inception
Module 4: Identity and Access Management (IAM) for Workloads - Differentiating human vs. machine identities
- Workload identity federation: concept and implementation
- Service accounts best practices in AWS, Azure, GCP
- Managing short-lived credentials and tokens
- Role chaining and cross-account access controls
- Just-in-time access for privileged workloads
- Tag-based permissions and attribute-based access control (ABAC)
- Monitoring and alerting on anomalous identity behaviour
- Automated IAM policy optimisation and cleanup
- Integrating identity with cloud workload protection platforms
Module 5: Security Hardening of Compute Resources - OS-level hardening for cloud VMs (Linux and Windows)
- Disabling unnecessary services and ports automatically
- Applying CIS Benchmarks to cloud instances
- Hardening kernel parameters for security
- Configuring secure boot and UEFI enforcement
- Enabling and managing SELinux and AppArmor policies
- File integrity monitoring (FIM) configuration
- System call filtering and eBPF-based monitoring
- Using custom AMIs and Golden Images securely
- Automated patching strategies for cloud workloads
Module 6: Container Security Fundamentals - Container threat model and attack surface analysis
- Secure container image creation and signing
- Minimising base image size and attack surface
- Best practices for Dockerfile security
- Image vulnerability scanning integration in CI/CD
- Using trusted registries and private repositories
- Immutable tags and image immutability enforcement
- Container runtime security configurations
- Limiting container capabilities (e.g., --cap-drop)
- Setting read-only filesystems and non-root users
Module 7: Kubernetes Security Deep Dive - Kubernetes control plane hardening techniques
- Securing etcd data store encryption
- APIServer authentication and authorisation settings
- RBAC policy design for service accounts and users
- PodSecurity Policies and admission controllers
- Network policies for namespace isolation
- Securing ingress and egress traffic in clusters
- Hardening kubelet and node configurations
- Secrets management using native and external tools
- Monitoring for drift and configuration non-compliance
Module 8: Serverless and Function-as-a-Service Security - Understanding the serverless security model
- Function permissions and least privilege principle
- Input validation and injection attack prevention
- Securing environment variables and configuration
- Monitoring function execution and concurrency
- Logging and tracing in event-driven architectures
- Throttling and denial-of-service protections
- Source code protection in automated deployments
- Data leakage risks in temporary storage
- Integrating observability without sacrificing security
Module 9: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Security - Security risks in Terraform, CloudFormation, and Pulumi
- Immutable infrastructure and security consistency
- Automated IaC scanning tools and integrations
- Preventing hardcoded secrets in configuration files
- Enforcing tagging and naming conventions
- Practising policy as code with OPA and Rego
- Writing custom security guardrails for IaC
- Using Sentinel for HashiCorp enforcement policies
- Version control and change approval workflows
- Automated drift detection and remediation
Module 10: Secure CI/CD Pipeline Integration - Shifting security left in development pipelines
- Integrating SAST tools in build stages
- Container image scanning in pre-deployment
- Policy enforcement gates in deployment workflows
- Secure secrets injection during pipeline execution
- Verifying digital signatures in artefact promotion
- Using ephemeral environments for testing
- Automated rollback mechanisms on policy failure
- Audit trails for all deployment activities
- Role-based access to pipeline configurations
Module 11: Runtime Protection and Detection - Host-based intrusion detection systems (HIDS) in the cloud
- Behavioural monitoring for anomalous workload activity
- Process execution whitelisting and blacklisting
- Network connection monitoring and alerting
- Real-time file integrity checks
- Detecting crypto-mining and unauthorised compute usage
- Memory protection and anti-exploitation techniques
- Integrating with SIEM and SOAR platforms
- Setting intelligent alert thresholds to reduce noise
- Automated response playbooks for common threats
Module 12: Logging, Monitoring, and Observability - Centralised logging architecture for cloud workloads
- Enabling detailed audit logging across CSPs
- Structured logging formats (JSON, OpenTelemetry)
- Log retention policies aligned with compliance
- Monitoring for unauthorised API calls
- Correlating logs across services and regions
- Creating custom detection rules and dashboards
- Using metrics for capacity and security insights
- Distributed tracing for identifying attack paths
- Redacting sensitive data in logs automatically
Module 13: Encryption and Data Protection - Data-at-rest encryption for EBS, disks, and databases
- Data-in-transit: TLS best practices and cipher suites
- Customer-managed vs. provider-managed keys
- Key rotation and lifecycle management policies
- Using KMS and Hardware Security Modules (HSM)
- Encrypting container and function storage volumes
- Secure secret storage solutions (Hashicorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager)
- Tokenisation and masking for PII
- Enforcing encryption in infrastructure policies
- Validating encryption settings across environments
Module 14: Network Security for Cloud Workloads - Designing secure VPC and subnet architectures
- Controlling ingress and egress with security groups
- Using Network ACLs for stateless filtering
- Implementing private subnets and NAT gateways
- Securing inter-VPC and cross-account traffic
- Cloud firewalls and WAF integration for workloads
- PrivateLink and Private Service Connect configurations
- Monitoring DNS queries for malicious resolution
- Enforcing DNS over HTTPS and secure forwarders
- Segmenting management and data plane traffic
Module 15: Automation and Orchestration Security - Securing orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, Nomad)
- Controlling automation script execution permissions
- Signing and verifying automation playbooks
- Hardening configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet)
- Managing credentials for automated workflows
- Preventing privilege escalation via automation
- Logging all automated changes for auditability
- Validating state convergence securely
- Using immutable automation agents
- Integrating with change advisory boards (CAB)
Module 16: Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) - Overview of top CWPP solutions and capabilities
- Workload inventory and discovery automation
- Agent-based vs. agentless deployment models
- Integrating with CSP-native tools (GuardDuty, Defender)
- Policy management and enforcement at scale
- Compliance reporting and dashboarding features
- Incident response workflows within CWPP
- Evaluating vendor capabilities against your needs
- Cost optimisation and licensing models
- Continuous assessment and adaptive protection
Module 17: Compliance and Audit Readiness - Mapping controls to ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIST, and CIS
- Preparing for cloud-specific compliance audits
- Generating automated compliance reports
- Documenting security configurations and decisions
- Implementing role-based access for auditors
- Using tagging for compliance boundary identification
- Automating evidence collection workflows
- Handling third-party audit requests securely
- Maintaining audit trails for 7+ years if required
- Conducting internal compliance self-assessments
Module 18: Incident Response and Recovery - Developing cloud-specific incident response playbooks
- Isolating compromised workloads without downtime
- Forensic data collection in ephemeral environments
- Snapshotting disks and memory securely
- Analysing logs for attack timelines
- Coordinating with CSP incident response teams
- Containment strategies for containerised workloads
- Automated rollback to known-good states
- Post-incident review and control improvements
- Communicating incidents to stakeholders clearly
Module 19: Advanced Threat Prevention Techniques - Runtime application self-protection (RASP) integration
- Memory scanning for malware and exploits
- Preventing DLL injection and code cave attacks
- Detecting living-off-the-land binaries (LOLBins)
- Blocking unauthorised PowerShell and command execution
- Using eBPF for low-level telemetry and enforcement
- Kernel-level protection mechanisms
- Preventing container breakout attempts
- Hardening gRPC and inter-service communication
- Enforcing code signing for all executables
Module 20: Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Workload Security - Consistent policy enforcement across CSPs
- Unifying identity and access management
- Centralised monitoring and alerting dashboard
- Standardising logging formats and export
- Deploying agents consistently in heterogeneous environments
- Managing encryption key interoperability
- Handling network peering and transit routing securely
- Security considerations for edge workloads
- Protecting workloads in co-located data centres
- Designing failover and disaster recovery securely
Module 21: Security Governance and Policy Management - Defining organisation-wide cloud security policies
- Establishing change control processes
- Enforcing standards through automated tools
- Creating security review gates for deployments
- Managing exceptions and justifications
- Conducting regular policy reviews and updates
- Aligning security policies with business objectives
- Training teams on policy adherence
- Measuring policy compliance rates
- Escalating non-compliance to leadership
Module 22: Culture and Team Enablement - Building a security-first culture in DevOps
- Security champion programmes for engineering teams
- Conducting secure coding workshops
- Running cloud security tabletop exercises
- Sharing threat intelligence across departments
- Recognising and rewarding secure practices
- Reducing friction between security and development
- Communicating risk in business impact terms
- Creating runbooks for common security tasks
- Onboarding new engineers with secure practices
Module 23: Metrics, KPIs, and Executive Reporting - Defining security metrics that matter to leadership
- Tracking mean time to detect (MTTD) and respond (MTTR)
- Measuring policy compliance percentage
- Calculating risk reduction over time
- Reporting on cloud security spend efficiency
- Visualising attack surface trends
- Dashboarding for CISO and board presentations
- Translating technical findings into business risk
- Setting security OKRs and measuring success
- Forecasting security capacity needs
Module 24: Real-World Implementation Projects - Project 1: Securing a 3-tier web application in AWS
- Project 2: Hardening a Kubernetes cluster from scratch
- Project 3: Building a secure CI/CD pipeline with policy gates
- Project 4: Migrating an on-prem app to serverless securely
- Project 5: Implementing zero trust for microservices
- Project 6: Designing a compliant multi-account AWS landing zone
- Project 7: Creating automated incident response workflows
- Project 8: Developing a custom IaC security policy
- Project 9: Conducting a full workload threat model
- Project 10: Delivering a board-ready cloud security roadmap
Module 25: Certification, Next Steps & Career Advancement - Preparing for the final assessment
- Submitting your implementation portfolio
- Review process for Certificate of Completion
- Leveraging your certification in performance reviews
- Adding the credential to LinkedIn and resumes
- Connecting with alumni and industry networks
- Advanced learning paths in cloud security
- Transitioning into cloud security architect roles
- Negotiating higher compensation with verified skills
- Staying current with The Art of Service update alerts
- Zero Trust architecture for cloud workloads
- Principle of least functionality applied to cloud instances
- Immutable infrastructure and its security benefits
- Designing for failure: secure degradation patterns
- Secure network segmentation in public cloud
- Micro-segmentation techniques for workload isolation
- Hardening virtual machine images at creation
- Secure boot and measured boot implementation
- Enforcing security through infrastructure as code (IaC)
- Designing resilient logging and telemetry from inception
Module 4: Identity and Access Management (IAM) for Workloads - Differentiating human vs. machine identities
- Workload identity federation: concept and implementation
- Service accounts best practices in AWS, Azure, GCP
- Managing short-lived credentials and tokens
- Role chaining and cross-account access controls
- Just-in-time access for privileged workloads
- Tag-based permissions and attribute-based access control (ABAC)
- Monitoring and alerting on anomalous identity behaviour
- Automated IAM policy optimisation and cleanup
- Integrating identity with cloud workload protection platforms
Module 5: Security Hardening of Compute Resources - OS-level hardening for cloud VMs (Linux and Windows)
- Disabling unnecessary services and ports automatically
- Applying CIS Benchmarks to cloud instances
- Hardening kernel parameters for security
- Configuring secure boot and UEFI enforcement
- Enabling and managing SELinux and AppArmor policies
- File integrity monitoring (FIM) configuration
- System call filtering and eBPF-based monitoring
- Using custom AMIs and Golden Images securely
- Automated patching strategies for cloud workloads
Module 6: Container Security Fundamentals - Container threat model and attack surface analysis
- Secure container image creation and signing
- Minimising base image size and attack surface
- Best practices for Dockerfile security
- Image vulnerability scanning integration in CI/CD
- Using trusted registries and private repositories
- Immutable tags and image immutability enforcement
- Container runtime security configurations
- Limiting container capabilities (e.g., --cap-drop)
- Setting read-only filesystems and non-root users
Module 7: Kubernetes Security Deep Dive - Kubernetes control plane hardening techniques
- Securing etcd data store encryption
- APIServer authentication and authorisation settings
- RBAC policy design for service accounts and users
- PodSecurity Policies and admission controllers
- Network policies for namespace isolation
- Securing ingress and egress traffic in clusters
- Hardening kubelet and node configurations
- Secrets management using native and external tools
- Monitoring for drift and configuration non-compliance
Module 8: Serverless and Function-as-a-Service Security - Understanding the serverless security model
- Function permissions and least privilege principle
- Input validation and injection attack prevention
- Securing environment variables and configuration
- Monitoring function execution and concurrency
- Logging and tracing in event-driven architectures
- Throttling and denial-of-service protections
- Source code protection in automated deployments
- Data leakage risks in temporary storage
- Integrating observability without sacrificing security
Module 9: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Security - Security risks in Terraform, CloudFormation, and Pulumi
- Immutable infrastructure and security consistency
- Automated IaC scanning tools and integrations
- Preventing hardcoded secrets in configuration files
- Enforcing tagging and naming conventions
- Practising policy as code with OPA and Rego
- Writing custom security guardrails for IaC
- Using Sentinel for HashiCorp enforcement policies
- Version control and change approval workflows
- Automated drift detection and remediation
Module 10: Secure CI/CD Pipeline Integration - Shifting security left in development pipelines
- Integrating SAST tools in build stages
- Container image scanning in pre-deployment
- Policy enforcement gates in deployment workflows
- Secure secrets injection during pipeline execution
- Verifying digital signatures in artefact promotion
- Using ephemeral environments for testing
- Automated rollback mechanisms on policy failure
- Audit trails for all deployment activities
- Role-based access to pipeline configurations
Module 11: Runtime Protection and Detection - Host-based intrusion detection systems (HIDS) in the cloud
- Behavioural monitoring for anomalous workload activity
- Process execution whitelisting and blacklisting
- Network connection monitoring and alerting
- Real-time file integrity checks
- Detecting crypto-mining and unauthorised compute usage
- Memory protection and anti-exploitation techniques
- Integrating with SIEM and SOAR platforms
- Setting intelligent alert thresholds to reduce noise
- Automated response playbooks for common threats
Module 12: Logging, Monitoring, and Observability - Centralised logging architecture for cloud workloads
- Enabling detailed audit logging across CSPs
- Structured logging formats (JSON, OpenTelemetry)
- Log retention policies aligned with compliance
- Monitoring for unauthorised API calls
- Correlating logs across services and regions
- Creating custom detection rules and dashboards
- Using metrics for capacity and security insights
- Distributed tracing for identifying attack paths
- Redacting sensitive data in logs automatically
Module 13: Encryption and Data Protection - Data-at-rest encryption for EBS, disks, and databases
- Data-in-transit: TLS best practices and cipher suites
- Customer-managed vs. provider-managed keys
- Key rotation and lifecycle management policies
- Using KMS and Hardware Security Modules (HSM)
- Encrypting container and function storage volumes
- Secure secret storage solutions (Hashicorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager)
- Tokenisation and masking for PII
- Enforcing encryption in infrastructure policies
- Validating encryption settings across environments
Module 14: Network Security for Cloud Workloads - Designing secure VPC and subnet architectures
- Controlling ingress and egress with security groups
- Using Network ACLs for stateless filtering
- Implementing private subnets and NAT gateways
- Securing inter-VPC and cross-account traffic
- Cloud firewalls and WAF integration for workloads
- PrivateLink and Private Service Connect configurations
- Monitoring DNS queries for malicious resolution
- Enforcing DNS over HTTPS and secure forwarders
- Segmenting management and data plane traffic
Module 15: Automation and Orchestration Security - Securing orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, Nomad)
- Controlling automation script execution permissions
- Signing and verifying automation playbooks
- Hardening configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet)
- Managing credentials for automated workflows
- Preventing privilege escalation via automation
- Logging all automated changes for auditability
- Validating state convergence securely
- Using immutable automation agents
- Integrating with change advisory boards (CAB)
Module 16: Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) - Overview of top CWPP solutions and capabilities
- Workload inventory and discovery automation
- Agent-based vs. agentless deployment models
- Integrating with CSP-native tools (GuardDuty, Defender)
- Policy management and enforcement at scale
- Compliance reporting and dashboarding features
- Incident response workflows within CWPP
- Evaluating vendor capabilities against your needs
- Cost optimisation and licensing models
- Continuous assessment and adaptive protection
Module 17: Compliance and Audit Readiness - Mapping controls to ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIST, and CIS
- Preparing for cloud-specific compliance audits
- Generating automated compliance reports
- Documenting security configurations and decisions
- Implementing role-based access for auditors
- Using tagging for compliance boundary identification
- Automating evidence collection workflows
- Handling third-party audit requests securely
- Maintaining audit trails for 7+ years if required
- Conducting internal compliance self-assessments
Module 18: Incident Response and Recovery - Developing cloud-specific incident response playbooks
- Isolating compromised workloads without downtime
- Forensic data collection in ephemeral environments
- Snapshotting disks and memory securely
- Analysing logs for attack timelines
- Coordinating with CSP incident response teams
- Containment strategies for containerised workloads
- Automated rollback to known-good states
- Post-incident review and control improvements
- Communicating incidents to stakeholders clearly
Module 19: Advanced Threat Prevention Techniques - Runtime application self-protection (RASP) integration
- Memory scanning for malware and exploits
- Preventing DLL injection and code cave attacks
- Detecting living-off-the-land binaries (LOLBins)
- Blocking unauthorised PowerShell and command execution
- Using eBPF for low-level telemetry and enforcement
- Kernel-level protection mechanisms
- Preventing container breakout attempts
- Hardening gRPC and inter-service communication
- Enforcing code signing for all executables
Module 20: Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Workload Security - Consistent policy enforcement across CSPs
- Unifying identity and access management
- Centralised monitoring and alerting dashboard
- Standardising logging formats and export
- Deploying agents consistently in heterogeneous environments
- Managing encryption key interoperability
- Handling network peering and transit routing securely
- Security considerations for edge workloads
- Protecting workloads in co-located data centres
- Designing failover and disaster recovery securely
Module 21: Security Governance and Policy Management - Defining organisation-wide cloud security policies
- Establishing change control processes
- Enforcing standards through automated tools
- Creating security review gates for deployments
- Managing exceptions and justifications
- Conducting regular policy reviews and updates
- Aligning security policies with business objectives
- Training teams on policy adherence
- Measuring policy compliance rates
- Escalating non-compliance to leadership
Module 22: Culture and Team Enablement - Building a security-first culture in DevOps
- Security champion programmes for engineering teams
- Conducting secure coding workshops
- Running cloud security tabletop exercises
- Sharing threat intelligence across departments
- Recognising and rewarding secure practices
- Reducing friction between security and development
- Communicating risk in business impact terms
- Creating runbooks for common security tasks
- Onboarding new engineers with secure practices
Module 23: Metrics, KPIs, and Executive Reporting - Defining security metrics that matter to leadership
- Tracking mean time to detect (MTTD) and respond (MTTR)
- Measuring policy compliance percentage
- Calculating risk reduction over time
- Reporting on cloud security spend efficiency
- Visualising attack surface trends
- Dashboarding for CISO and board presentations
- Translating technical findings into business risk
- Setting security OKRs and measuring success
- Forecasting security capacity needs
Module 24: Real-World Implementation Projects - Project 1: Securing a 3-tier web application in AWS
- Project 2: Hardening a Kubernetes cluster from scratch
- Project 3: Building a secure CI/CD pipeline with policy gates
- Project 4: Migrating an on-prem app to serverless securely
- Project 5: Implementing zero trust for microservices
- Project 6: Designing a compliant multi-account AWS landing zone
- Project 7: Creating automated incident response workflows
- Project 8: Developing a custom IaC security policy
- Project 9: Conducting a full workload threat model
- Project 10: Delivering a board-ready cloud security roadmap
Module 25: Certification, Next Steps & Career Advancement - Preparing for the final assessment
- Submitting your implementation portfolio
- Review process for Certificate of Completion
- Leveraging your certification in performance reviews
- Adding the credential to LinkedIn and resumes
- Connecting with alumni and industry networks
- Advanced learning paths in cloud security
- Transitioning into cloud security architect roles
- Negotiating higher compensation with verified skills
- Staying current with The Art of Service update alerts
- OS-level hardening for cloud VMs (Linux and Windows)
- Disabling unnecessary services and ports automatically
- Applying CIS Benchmarks to cloud instances
- Hardening kernel parameters for security
- Configuring secure boot and UEFI enforcement
- Enabling and managing SELinux and AppArmor policies
- File integrity monitoring (FIM) configuration
- System call filtering and eBPF-based monitoring
- Using custom AMIs and Golden Images securely
- Automated patching strategies for cloud workloads
Module 6: Container Security Fundamentals - Container threat model and attack surface analysis
- Secure container image creation and signing
- Minimising base image size and attack surface
- Best practices for Dockerfile security
- Image vulnerability scanning integration in CI/CD
- Using trusted registries and private repositories
- Immutable tags and image immutability enforcement
- Container runtime security configurations
- Limiting container capabilities (e.g., --cap-drop)
- Setting read-only filesystems and non-root users
Module 7: Kubernetes Security Deep Dive - Kubernetes control plane hardening techniques
- Securing etcd data store encryption
- APIServer authentication and authorisation settings
- RBAC policy design for service accounts and users
- PodSecurity Policies and admission controllers
- Network policies for namespace isolation
- Securing ingress and egress traffic in clusters
- Hardening kubelet and node configurations
- Secrets management using native and external tools
- Monitoring for drift and configuration non-compliance
Module 8: Serverless and Function-as-a-Service Security - Understanding the serverless security model
- Function permissions and least privilege principle
- Input validation and injection attack prevention
- Securing environment variables and configuration
- Monitoring function execution and concurrency
- Logging and tracing in event-driven architectures
- Throttling and denial-of-service protections
- Source code protection in automated deployments
- Data leakage risks in temporary storage
- Integrating observability without sacrificing security
Module 9: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Security - Security risks in Terraform, CloudFormation, and Pulumi
- Immutable infrastructure and security consistency
- Automated IaC scanning tools and integrations
- Preventing hardcoded secrets in configuration files
- Enforcing tagging and naming conventions
- Practising policy as code with OPA and Rego
- Writing custom security guardrails for IaC
- Using Sentinel for HashiCorp enforcement policies
- Version control and change approval workflows
- Automated drift detection and remediation
Module 10: Secure CI/CD Pipeline Integration - Shifting security left in development pipelines
- Integrating SAST tools in build stages
- Container image scanning in pre-deployment
- Policy enforcement gates in deployment workflows
- Secure secrets injection during pipeline execution
- Verifying digital signatures in artefact promotion
- Using ephemeral environments for testing
- Automated rollback mechanisms on policy failure
- Audit trails for all deployment activities
- Role-based access to pipeline configurations
Module 11: Runtime Protection and Detection - Host-based intrusion detection systems (HIDS) in the cloud
- Behavioural monitoring for anomalous workload activity
- Process execution whitelisting and blacklisting
- Network connection monitoring and alerting
- Real-time file integrity checks
- Detecting crypto-mining and unauthorised compute usage
- Memory protection and anti-exploitation techniques
- Integrating with SIEM and SOAR platforms
- Setting intelligent alert thresholds to reduce noise
- Automated response playbooks for common threats
Module 12: Logging, Monitoring, and Observability - Centralised logging architecture for cloud workloads
- Enabling detailed audit logging across CSPs
- Structured logging formats (JSON, OpenTelemetry)
- Log retention policies aligned with compliance
- Monitoring for unauthorised API calls
- Correlating logs across services and regions
- Creating custom detection rules and dashboards
- Using metrics for capacity and security insights
- Distributed tracing for identifying attack paths
- Redacting sensitive data in logs automatically
Module 13: Encryption and Data Protection - Data-at-rest encryption for EBS, disks, and databases
- Data-in-transit: TLS best practices and cipher suites
- Customer-managed vs. provider-managed keys
- Key rotation and lifecycle management policies
- Using KMS and Hardware Security Modules (HSM)
- Encrypting container and function storage volumes
- Secure secret storage solutions (Hashicorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager)
- Tokenisation and masking for PII
- Enforcing encryption in infrastructure policies
- Validating encryption settings across environments
Module 14: Network Security for Cloud Workloads - Designing secure VPC and subnet architectures
- Controlling ingress and egress with security groups
- Using Network ACLs for stateless filtering
- Implementing private subnets and NAT gateways
- Securing inter-VPC and cross-account traffic
- Cloud firewalls and WAF integration for workloads
- PrivateLink and Private Service Connect configurations
- Monitoring DNS queries for malicious resolution
- Enforcing DNS over HTTPS and secure forwarders
- Segmenting management and data plane traffic
Module 15: Automation and Orchestration Security - Securing orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, Nomad)
- Controlling automation script execution permissions
- Signing and verifying automation playbooks
- Hardening configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet)
- Managing credentials for automated workflows
- Preventing privilege escalation via automation
- Logging all automated changes for auditability
- Validating state convergence securely
- Using immutable automation agents
- Integrating with change advisory boards (CAB)
Module 16: Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) - Overview of top CWPP solutions and capabilities
- Workload inventory and discovery automation
- Agent-based vs. agentless deployment models
- Integrating with CSP-native tools (GuardDuty, Defender)
- Policy management and enforcement at scale
- Compliance reporting and dashboarding features
- Incident response workflows within CWPP
- Evaluating vendor capabilities against your needs
- Cost optimisation and licensing models
- Continuous assessment and adaptive protection
Module 17: Compliance and Audit Readiness - Mapping controls to ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIST, and CIS
- Preparing for cloud-specific compliance audits
- Generating automated compliance reports
- Documenting security configurations and decisions
- Implementing role-based access for auditors
- Using tagging for compliance boundary identification
- Automating evidence collection workflows
- Handling third-party audit requests securely
- Maintaining audit trails for 7+ years if required
- Conducting internal compliance self-assessments
Module 18: Incident Response and Recovery - Developing cloud-specific incident response playbooks
- Isolating compromised workloads without downtime
- Forensic data collection in ephemeral environments
- Snapshotting disks and memory securely
- Analysing logs for attack timelines
- Coordinating with CSP incident response teams
- Containment strategies for containerised workloads
- Automated rollback to known-good states
- Post-incident review and control improvements
- Communicating incidents to stakeholders clearly
Module 19: Advanced Threat Prevention Techniques - Runtime application self-protection (RASP) integration
- Memory scanning for malware and exploits
- Preventing DLL injection and code cave attacks
- Detecting living-off-the-land binaries (LOLBins)
- Blocking unauthorised PowerShell and command execution
- Using eBPF for low-level telemetry and enforcement
- Kernel-level protection mechanisms
- Preventing container breakout attempts
- Hardening gRPC and inter-service communication
- Enforcing code signing for all executables
Module 20: Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Workload Security - Consistent policy enforcement across CSPs
- Unifying identity and access management
- Centralised monitoring and alerting dashboard
- Standardising logging formats and export
- Deploying agents consistently in heterogeneous environments
- Managing encryption key interoperability
- Handling network peering and transit routing securely
- Security considerations for edge workloads
- Protecting workloads in co-located data centres
- Designing failover and disaster recovery securely
Module 21: Security Governance and Policy Management - Defining organisation-wide cloud security policies
- Establishing change control processes
- Enforcing standards through automated tools
- Creating security review gates for deployments
- Managing exceptions and justifications
- Conducting regular policy reviews and updates
- Aligning security policies with business objectives
- Training teams on policy adherence
- Measuring policy compliance rates
- Escalating non-compliance to leadership
Module 22: Culture and Team Enablement - Building a security-first culture in DevOps
- Security champion programmes for engineering teams
- Conducting secure coding workshops
- Running cloud security tabletop exercises
- Sharing threat intelligence across departments
- Recognising and rewarding secure practices
- Reducing friction between security and development
- Communicating risk in business impact terms
- Creating runbooks for common security tasks
- Onboarding new engineers with secure practices
Module 23: Metrics, KPIs, and Executive Reporting - Defining security metrics that matter to leadership
- Tracking mean time to detect (MTTD) and respond (MTTR)
- Measuring policy compliance percentage
- Calculating risk reduction over time
- Reporting on cloud security spend efficiency
- Visualising attack surface trends
- Dashboarding for CISO and board presentations
- Translating technical findings into business risk
- Setting security OKRs and measuring success
- Forecasting security capacity needs
Module 24: Real-World Implementation Projects - Project 1: Securing a 3-tier web application in AWS
- Project 2: Hardening a Kubernetes cluster from scratch
- Project 3: Building a secure CI/CD pipeline with policy gates
- Project 4: Migrating an on-prem app to serverless securely
- Project 5: Implementing zero trust for microservices
- Project 6: Designing a compliant multi-account AWS landing zone
- Project 7: Creating automated incident response workflows
- Project 8: Developing a custom IaC security policy
- Project 9: Conducting a full workload threat model
- Project 10: Delivering a board-ready cloud security roadmap
Module 25: Certification, Next Steps & Career Advancement - Preparing for the final assessment
- Submitting your implementation portfolio
- Review process for Certificate of Completion
- Leveraging your certification in performance reviews
- Adding the credential to LinkedIn and resumes
- Connecting with alumni and industry networks
- Advanced learning paths in cloud security
- Transitioning into cloud security architect roles
- Negotiating higher compensation with verified skills
- Staying current with The Art of Service update alerts
- Kubernetes control plane hardening techniques
- Securing etcd data store encryption
- APIServer authentication and authorisation settings
- RBAC policy design for service accounts and users
- PodSecurity Policies and admission controllers
- Network policies for namespace isolation
- Securing ingress and egress traffic in clusters
- Hardening kubelet and node configurations
- Secrets management using native and external tools
- Monitoring for drift and configuration non-compliance
Module 8: Serverless and Function-as-a-Service Security - Understanding the serverless security model
- Function permissions and least privilege principle
- Input validation and injection attack prevention
- Securing environment variables and configuration
- Monitoring function execution and concurrency
- Logging and tracing in event-driven architectures
- Throttling and denial-of-service protections
- Source code protection in automated deployments
- Data leakage risks in temporary storage
- Integrating observability without sacrificing security
Module 9: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Security - Security risks in Terraform, CloudFormation, and Pulumi
- Immutable infrastructure and security consistency
- Automated IaC scanning tools and integrations
- Preventing hardcoded secrets in configuration files
- Enforcing tagging and naming conventions
- Practising policy as code with OPA and Rego
- Writing custom security guardrails for IaC
- Using Sentinel for HashiCorp enforcement policies
- Version control and change approval workflows
- Automated drift detection and remediation
Module 10: Secure CI/CD Pipeline Integration - Shifting security left in development pipelines
- Integrating SAST tools in build stages
- Container image scanning in pre-deployment
- Policy enforcement gates in deployment workflows
- Secure secrets injection during pipeline execution
- Verifying digital signatures in artefact promotion
- Using ephemeral environments for testing
- Automated rollback mechanisms on policy failure
- Audit trails for all deployment activities
- Role-based access to pipeline configurations
Module 11: Runtime Protection and Detection - Host-based intrusion detection systems (HIDS) in the cloud
- Behavioural monitoring for anomalous workload activity
- Process execution whitelisting and blacklisting
- Network connection monitoring and alerting
- Real-time file integrity checks
- Detecting crypto-mining and unauthorised compute usage
- Memory protection and anti-exploitation techniques
- Integrating with SIEM and SOAR platforms
- Setting intelligent alert thresholds to reduce noise
- Automated response playbooks for common threats
Module 12: Logging, Monitoring, and Observability - Centralised logging architecture for cloud workloads
- Enabling detailed audit logging across CSPs
- Structured logging formats (JSON, OpenTelemetry)
- Log retention policies aligned with compliance
- Monitoring for unauthorised API calls
- Correlating logs across services and regions
- Creating custom detection rules and dashboards
- Using metrics for capacity and security insights
- Distributed tracing for identifying attack paths
- Redacting sensitive data in logs automatically
Module 13: Encryption and Data Protection - Data-at-rest encryption for EBS, disks, and databases
- Data-in-transit: TLS best practices and cipher suites
- Customer-managed vs. provider-managed keys
- Key rotation and lifecycle management policies
- Using KMS and Hardware Security Modules (HSM)
- Encrypting container and function storage volumes
- Secure secret storage solutions (Hashicorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager)
- Tokenisation and masking for PII
- Enforcing encryption in infrastructure policies
- Validating encryption settings across environments
Module 14: Network Security for Cloud Workloads - Designing secure VPC and subnet architectures
- Controlling ingress and egress with security groups
- Using Network ACLs for stateless filtering
- Implementing private subnets and NAT gateways
- Securing inter-VPC and cross-account traffic
- Cloud firewalls and WAF integration for workloads
- PrivateLink and Private Service Connect configurations
- Monitoring DNS queries for malicious resolution
- Enforcing DNS over HTTPS and secure forwarders
- Segmenting management and data plane traffic
Module 15: Automation and Orchestration Security - Securing orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, Nomad)
- Controlling automation script execution permissions
- Signing and verifying automation playbooks
- Hardening configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet)
- Managing credentials for automated workflows
- Preventing privilege escalation via automation
- Logging all automated changes for auditability
- Validating state convergence securely
- Using immutable automation agents
- Integrating with change advisory boards (CAB)
Module 16: Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) - Overview of top CWPP solutions and capabilities
- Workload inventory and discovery automation
- Agent-based vs. agentless deployment models
- Integrating with CSP-native tools (GuardDuty, Defender)
- Policy management and enforcement at scale
- Compliance reporting and dashboarding features
- Incident response workflows within CWPP
- Evaluating vendor capabilities against your needs
- Cost optimisation and licensing models
- Continuous assessment and adaptive protection
Module 17: Compliance and Audit Readiness - Mapping controls to ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIST, and CIS
- Preparing for cloud-specific compliance audits
- Generating automated compliance reports
- Documenting security configurations and decisions
- Implementing role-based access for auditors
- Using tagging for compliance boundary identification
- Automating evidence collection workflows
- Handling third-party audit requests securely
- Maintaining audit trails for 7+ years if required
- Conducting internal compliance self-assessments
Module 18: Incident Response and Recovery - Developing cloud-specific incident response playbooks
- Isolating compromised workloads without downtime
- Forensic data collection in ephemeral environments
- Snapshotting disks and memory securely
- Analysing logs for attack timelines
- Coordinating with CSP incident response teams
- Containment strategies for containerised workloads
- Automated rollback to known-good states
- Post-incident review and control improvements
- Communicating incidents to stakeholders clearly
Module 19: Advanced Threat Prevention Techniques - Runtime application self-protection (RASP) integration
- Memory scanning for malware and exploits
- Preventing DLL injection and code cave attacks
- Detecting living-off-the-land binaries (LOLBins)
- Blocking unauthorised PowerShell and command execution
- Using eBPF for low-level telemetry and enforcement
- Kernel-level protection mechanisms
- Preventing container breakout attempts
- Hardening gRPC and inter-service communication
- Enforcing code signing for all executables
Module 20: Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Workload Security - Consistent policy enforcement across CSPs
- Unifying identity and access management
- Centralised monitoring and alerting dashboard
- Standardising logging formats and export
- Deploying agents consistently in heterogeneous environments
- Managing encryption key interoperability
- Handling network peering and transit routing securely
- Security considerations for edge workloads
- Protecting workloads in co-located data centres
- Designing failover and disaster recovery securely
Module 21: Security Governance and Policy Management - Defining organisation-wide cloud security policies
- Establishing change control processes
- Enforcing standards through automated tools
- Creating security review gates for deployments
- Managing exceptions and justifications
- Conducting regular policy reviews and updates
- Aligning security policies with business objectives
- Training teams on policy adherence
- Measuring policy compliance rates
- Escalating non-compliance to leadership
Module 22: Culture and Team Enablement - Building a security-first culture in DevOps
- Security champion programmes for engineering teams
- Conducting secure coding workshops
- Running cloud security tabletop exercises
- Sharing threat intelligence across departments
- Recognising and rewarding secure practices
- Reducing friction between security and development
- Communicating risk in business impact terms
- Creating runbooks for common security tasks
- Onboarding new engineers with secure practices
Module 23: Metrics, KPIs, and Executive Reporting - Defining security metrics that matter to leadership
- Tracking mean time to detect (MTTD) and respond (MTTR)
- Measuring policy compliance percentage
- Calculating risk reduction over time
- Reporting on cloud security spend efficiency
- Visualising attack surface trends
- Dashboarding for CISO and board presentations
- Translating technical findings into business risk
- Setting security OKRs and measuring success
- Forecasting security capacity needs
Module 24: Real-World Implementation Projects - Project 1: Securing a 3-tier web application in AWS
- Project 2: Hardening a Kubernetes cluster from scratch
- Project 3: Building a secure CI/CD pipeline with policy gates
- Project 4: Migrating an on-prem app to serverless securely
- Project 5: Implementing zero trust for microservices
- Project 6: Designing a compliant multi-account AWS landing zone
- Project 7: Creating automated incident response workflows
- Project 8: Developing a custom IaC security policy
- Project 9: Conducting a full workload threat model
- Project 10: Delivering a board-ready cloud security roadmap
Module 25: Certification, Next Steps & Career Advancement - Preparing for the final assessment
- Submitting your implementation portfolio
- Review process for Certificate of Completion
- Leveraging your certification in performance reviews
- Adding the credential to LinkedIn and resumes
- Connecting with alumni and industry networks
- Advanced learning paths in cloud security
- Transitioning into cloud security architect roles
- Negotiating higher compensation with verified skills
- Staying current with The Art of Service update alerts
- Security risks in Terraform, CloudFormation, and Pulumi
- Immutable infrastructure and security consistency
- Automated IaC scanning tools and integrations
- Preventing hardcoded secrets in configuration files
- Enforcing tagging and naming conventions
- Practising policy as code with OPA and Rego
- Writing custom security guardrails for IaC
- Using Sentinel for HashiCorp enforcement policies
- Version control and change approval workflows
- Automated drift detection and remediation
Module 10: Secure CI/CD Pipeline Integration - Shifting security left in development pipelines
- Integrating SAST tools in build stages
- Container image scanning in pre-deployment
- Policy enforcement gates in deployment workflows
- Secure secrets injection during pipeline execution
- Verifying digital signatures in artefact promotion
- Using ephemeral environments for testing
- Automated rollback mechanisms on policy failure
- Audit trails for all deployment activities
- Role-based access to pipeline configurations
Module 11: Runtime Protection and Detection - Host-based intrusion detection systems (HIDS) in the cloud
- Behavioural monitoring for anomalous workload activity
- Process execution whitelisting and blacklisting
- Network connection monitoring and alerting
- Real-time file integrity checks
- Detecting crypto-mining and unauthorised compute usage
- Memory protection and anti-exploitation techniques
- Integrating with SIEM and SOAR platforms
- Setting intelligent alert thresholds to reduce noise
- Automated response playbooks for common threats
Module 12: Logging, Monitoring, and Observability - Centralised logging architecture for cloud workloads
- Enabling detailed audit logging across CSPs
- Structured logging formats (JSON, OpenTelemetry)
- Log retention policies aligned with compliance
- Monitoring for unauthorised API calls
- Correlating logs across services and regions
- Creating custom detection rules and dashboards
- Using metrics for capacity and security insights
- Distributed tracing for identifying attack paths
- Redacting sensitive data in logs automatically
Module 13: Encryption and Data Protection - Data-at-rest encryption for EBS, disks, and databases
- Data-in-transit: TLS best practices and cipher suites
- Customer-managed vs. provider-managed keys
- Key rotation and lifecycle management policies
- Using KMS and Hardware Security Modules (HSM)
- Encrypting container and function storage volumes
- Secure secret storage solutions (Hashicorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager)
- Tokenisation and masking for PII
- Enforcing encryption in infrastructure policies
- Validating encryption settings across environments
Module 14: Network Security for Cloud Workloads - Designing secure VPC and subnet architectures
- Controlling ingress and egress with security groups
- Using Network ACLs for stateless filtering
- Implementing private subnets and NAT gateways
- Securing inter-VPC and cross-account traffic
- Cloud firewalls and WAF integration for workloads
- PrivateLink and Private Service Connect configurations
- Monitoring DNS queries for malicious resolution
- Enforcing DNS over HTTPS and secure forwarders
- Segmenting management and data plane traffic
Module 15: Automation and Orchestration Security - Securing orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, Nomad)
- Controlling automation script execution permissions
- Signing and verifying automation playbooks
- Hardening configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet)
- Managing credentials for automated workflows
- Preventing privilege escalation via automation
- Logging all automated changes for auditability
- Validating state convergence securely
- Using immutable automation agents
- Integrating with change advisory boards (CAB)
Module 16: Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) - Overview of top CWPP solutions and capabilities
- Workload inventory and discovery automation
- Agent-based vs. agentless deployment models
- Integrating with CSP-native tools (GuardDuty, Defender)
- Policy management and enforcement at scale
- Compliance reporting and dashboarding features
- Incident response workflows within CWPP
- Evaluating vendor capabilities against your needs
- Cost optimisation and licensing models
- Continuous assessment and adaptive protection
Module 17: Compliance and Audit Readiness - Mapping controls to ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIST, and CIS
- Preparing for cloud-specific compliance audits
- Generating automated compliance reports
- Documenting security configurations and decisions
- Implementing role-based access for auditors
- Using tagging for compliance boundary identification
- Automating evidence collection workflows
- Handling third-party audit requests securely
- Maintaining audit trails for 7+ years if required
- Conducting internal compliance self-assessments
Module 18: Incident Response and Recovery - Developing cloud-specific incident response playbooks
- Isolating compromised workloads without downtime
- Forensic data collection in ephemeral environments
- Snapshotting disks and memory securely
- Analysing logs for attack timelines
- Coordinating with CSP incident response teams
- Containment strategies for containerised workloads
- Automated rollback to known-good states
- Post-incident review and control improvements
- Communicating incidents to stakeholders clearly
Module 19: Advanced Threat Prevention Techniques - Runtime application self-protection (RASP) integration
- Memory scanning for malware and exploits
- Preventing DLL injection and code cave attacks
- Detecting living-off-the-land binaries (LOLBins)
- Blocking unauthorised PowerShell and command execution
- Using eBPF for low-level telemetry and enforcement
- Kernel-level protection mechanisms
- Preventing container breakout attempts
- Hardening gRPC and inter-service communication
- Enforcing code signing for all executables
Module 20: Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Workload Security - Consistent policy enforcement across CSPs
- Unifying identity and access management
- Centralised monitoring and alerting dashboard
- Standardising logging formats and export
- Deploying agents consistently in heterogeneous environments
- Managing encryption key interoperability
- Handling network peering and transit routing securely
- Security considerations for edge workloads
- Protecting workloads in co-located data centres
- Designing failover and disaster recovery securely
Module 21: Security Governance and Policy Management - Defining organisation-wide cloud security policies
- Establishing change control processes
- Enforcing standards through automated tools
- Creating security review gates for deployments
- Managing exceptions and justifications
- Conducting regular policy reviews and updates
- Aligning security policies with business objectives
- Training teams on policy adherence
- Measuring policy compliance rates
- Escalating non-compliance to leadership
Module 22: Culture and Team Enablement - Building a security-first culture in DevOps
- Security champion programmes for engineering teams
- Conducting secure coding workshops
- Running cloud security tabletop exercises
- Sharing threat intelligence across departments
- Recognising and rewarding secure practices
- Reducing friction between security and development
- Communicating risk in business impact terms
- Creating runbooks for common security tasks
- Onboarding new engineers with secure practices
Module 23: Metrics, KPIs, and Executive Reporting - Defining security metrics that matter to leadership
- Tracking mean time to detect (MTTD) and respond (MTTR)
- Measuring policy compliance percentage
- Calculating risk reduction over time
- Reporting on cloud security spend efficiency
- Visualising attack surface trends
- Dashboarding for CISO and board presentations
- Translating technical findings into business risk
- Setting security OKRs and measuring success
- Forecasting security capacity needs
Module 24: Real-World Implementation Projects - Project 1: Securing a 3-tier web application in AWS
- Project 2: Hardening a Kubernetes cluster from scratch
- Project 3: Building a secure CI/CD pipeline with policy gates
- Project 4: Migrating an on-prem app to serverless securely
- Project 5: Implementing zero trust for microservices
- Project 6: Designing a compliant multi-account AWS landing zone
- Project 7: Creating automated incident response workflows
- Project 8: Developing a custom IaC security policy
- Project 9: Conducting a full workload threat model
- Project 10: Delivering a board-ready cloud security roadmap
Module 25: Certification, Next Steps & Career Advancement - Preparing for the final assessment
- Submitting your implementation portfolio
- Review process for Certificate of Completion
- Leveraging your certification in performance reviews
- Adding the credential to LinkedIn and resumes
- Connecting with alumni and industry networks
- Advanced learning paths in cloud security
- Transitioning into cloud security architect roles
- Negotiating higher compensation with verified skills
- Staying current with The Art of Service update alerts
- Host-based intrusion detection systems (HIDS) in the cloud
- Behavioural monitoring for anomalous workload activity
- Process execution whitelisting and blacklisting
- Network connection monitoring and alerting
- Real-time file integrity checks
- Detecting crypto-mining and unauthorised compute usage
- Memory protection and anti-exploitation techniques
- Integrating with SIEM and SOAR platforms
- Setting intelligent alert thresholds to reduce noise
- Automated response playbooks for common threats
Module 12: Logging, Monitoring, and Observability - Centralised logging architecture for cloud workloads
- Enabling detailed audit logging across CSPs
- Structured logging formats (JSON, OpenTelemetry)
- Log retention policies aligned with compliance
- Monitoring for unauthorised API calls
- Correlating logs across services and regions
- Creating custom detection rules and dashboards
- Using metrics for capacity and security insights
- Distributed tracing for identifying attack paths
- Redacting sensitive data in logs automatically
Module 13: Encryption and Data Protection - Data-at-rest encryption for EBS, disks, and databases
- Data-in-transit: TLS best practices and cipher suites
- Customer-managed vs. provider-managed keys
- Key rotation and lifecycle management policies
- Using KMS and Hardware Security Modules (HSM)
- Encrypting container and function storage volumes
- Secure secret storage solutions (Hashicorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager)
- Tokenisation and masking for PII
- Enforcing encryption in infrastructure policies
- Validating encryption settings across environments
Module 14: Network Security for Cloud Workloads - Designing secure VPC and subnet architectures
- Controlling ingress and egress with security groups
- Using Network ACLs for stateless filtering
- Implementing private subnets and NAT gateways
- Securing inter-VPC and cross-account traffic
- Cloud firewalls and WAF integration for workloads
- PrivateLink and Private Service Connect configurations
- Monitoring DNS queries for malicious resolution
- Enforcing DNS over HTTPS and secure forwarders
- Segmenting management and data plane traffic
Module 15: Automation and Orchestration Security - Securing orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, Nomad)
- Controlling automation script execution permissions
- Signing and verifying automation playbooks
- Hardening configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet)
- Managing credentials for automated workflows
- Preventing privilege escalation via automation
- Logging all automated changes for auditability
- Validating state convergence securely
- Using immutable automation agents
- Integrating with change advisory boards (CAB)
Module 16: Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) - Overview of top CWPP solutions and capabilities
- Workload inventory and discovery automation
- Agent-based vs. agentless deployment models
- Integrating with CSP-native tools (GuardDuty, Defender)
- Policy management and enforcement at scale
- Compliance reporting and dashboarding features
- Incident response workflows within CWPP
- Evaluating vendor capabilities against your needs
- Cost optimisation and licensing models
- Continuous assessment and adaptive protection
Module 17: Compliance and Audit Readiness - Mapping controls to ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIST, and CIS
- Preparing for cloud-specific compliance audits
- Generating automated compliance reports
- Documenting security configurations and decisions
- Implementing role-based access for auditors
- Using tagging for compliance boundary identification
- Automating evidence collection workflows
- Handling third-party audit requests securely
- Maintaining audit trails for 7+ years if required
- Conducting internal compliance self-assessments
Module 18: Incident Response and Recovery - Developing cloud-specific incident response playbooks
- Isolating compromised workloads without downtime
- Forensic data collection in ephemeral environments
- Snapshotting disks and memory securely
- Analysing logs for attack timelines
- Coordinating with CSP incident response teams
- Containment strategies for containerised workloads
- Automated rollback to known-good states
- Post-incident review and control improvements
- Communicating incidents to stakeholders clearly
Module 19: Advanced Threat Prevention Techniques - Runtime application self-protection (RASP) integration
- Memory scanning for malware and exploits
- Preventing DLL injection and code cave attacks
- Detecting living-off-the-land binaries (LOLBins)
- Blocking unauthorised PowerShell and command execution
- Using eBPF for low-level telemetry and enforcement
- Kernel-level protection mechanisms
- Preventing container breakout attempts
- Hardening gRPC and inter-service communication
- Enforcing code signing for all executables
Module 20: Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Workload Security - Consistent policy enforcement across CSPs
- Unifying identity and access management
- Centralised monitoring and alerting dashboard
- Standardising logging formats and export
- Deploying agents consistently in heterogeneous environments
- Managing encryption key interoperability
- Handling network peering and transit routing securely
- Security considerations for edge workloads
- Protecting workloads in co-located data centres
- Designing failover and disaster recovery securely
Module 21: Security Governance and Policy Management - Defining organisation-wide cloud security policies
- Establishing change control processes
- Enforcing standards through automated tools
- Creating security review gates for deployments
- Managing exceptions and justifications
- Conducting regular policy reviews and updates
- Aligning security policies with business objectives
- Training teams on policy adherence
- Measuring policy compliance rates
- Escalating non-compliance to leadership
Module 22: Culture and Team Enablement - Building a security-first culture in DevOps
- Security champion programmes for engineering teams
- Conducting secure coding workshops
- Running cloud security tabletop exercises
- Sharing threat intelligence across departments
- Recognising and rewarding secure practices
- Reducing friction between security and development
- Communicating risk in business impact terms
- Creating runbooks for common security tasks
- Onboarding new engineers with secure practices
Module 23: Metrics, KPIs, and Executive Reporting - Defining security metrics that matter to leadership
- Tracking mean time to detect (MTTD) and respond (MTTR)
- Measuring policy compliance percentage
- Calculating risk reduction over time
- Reporting on cloud security spend efficiency
- Visualising attack surface trends
- Dashboarding for CISO and board presentations
- Translating technical findings into business risk
- Setting security OKRs and measuring success
- Forecasting security capacity needs
Module 24: Real-World Implementation Projects - Project 1: Securing a 3-tier web application in AWS
- Project 2: Hardening a Kubernetes cluster from scratch
- Project 3: Building a secure CI/CD pipeline with policy gates
- Project 4: Migrating an on-prem app to serverless securely
- Project 5: Implementing zero trust for microservices
- Project 6: Designing a compliant multi-account AWS landing zone
- Project 7: Creating automated incident response workflows
- Project 8: Developing a custom IaC security policy
- Project 9: Conducting a full workload threat model
- Project 10: Delivering a board-ready cloud security roadmap
Module 25: Certification, Next Steps & Career Advancement - Preparing for the final assessment
- Submitting your implementation portfolio
- Review process for Certificate of Completion
- Leveraging your certification in performance reviews
- Adding the credential to LinkedIn and resumes
- Connecting with alumni and industry networks
- Advanced learning paths in cloud security
- Transitioning into cloud security architect roles
- Negotiating higher compensation with verified skills
- Staying current with The Art of Service update alerts
- Data-at-rest encryption for EBS, disks, and databases
- Data-in-transit: TLS best practices and cipher suites
- Customer-managed vs. provider-managed keys
- Key rotation and lifecycle management policies
- Using KMS and Hardware Security Modules (HSM)
- Encrypting container and function storage volumes
- Secure secret storage solutions (Hashicorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager)
- Tokenisation and masking for PII
- Enforcing encryption in infrastructure policies
- Validating encryption settings across environments
Module 14: Network Security for Cloud Workloads - Designing secure VPC and subnet architectures
- Controlling ingress and egress with security groups
- Using Network ACLs for stateless filtering
- Implementing private subnets and NAT gateways
- Securing inter-VPC and cross-account traffic
- Cloud firewalls and WAF integration for workloads
- PrivateLink and Private Service Connect configurations
- Monitoring DNS queries for malicious resolution
- Enforcing DNS over HTTPS and secure forwarders
- Segmenting management and data plane traffic
Module 15: Automation and Orchestration Security - Securing orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, Nomad)
- Controlling automation script execution permissions
- Signing and verifying automation playbooks
- Hardening configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet)
- Managing credentials for automated workflows
- Preventing privilege escalation via automation
- Logging all automated changes for auditability
- Validating state convergence securely
- Using immutable automation agents
- Integrating with change advisory boards (CAB)
Module 16: Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) - Overview of top CWPP solutions and capabilities
- Workload inventory and discovery automation
- Agent-based vs. agentless deployment models
- Integrating with CSP-native tools (GuardDuty, Defender)
- Policy management and enforcement at scale
- Compliance reporting and dashboarding features
- Incident response workflows within CWPP
- Evaluating vendor capabilities against your needs
- Cost optimisation and licensing models
- Continuous assessment and adaptive protection
Module 17: Compliance and Audit Readiness - Mapping controls to ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIST, and CIS
- Preparing for cloud-specific compliance audits
- Generating automated compliance reports
- Documenting security configurations and decisions
- Implementing role-based access for auditors
- Using tagging for compliance boundary identification
- Automating evidence collection workflows
- Handling third-party audit requests securely
- Maintaining audit trails for 7+ years if required
- Conducting internal compliance self-assessments
Module 18: Incident Response and Recovery - Developing cloud-specific incident response playbooks
- Isolating compromised workloads without downtime
- Forensic data collection in ephemeral environments
- Snapshotting disks and memory securely
- Analysing logs for attack timelines
- Coordinating with CSP incident response teams
- Containment strategies for containerised workloads
- Automated rollback to known-good states
- Post-incident review and control improvements
- Communicating incidents to stakeholders clearly
Module 19: Advanced Threat Prevention Techniques - Runtime application self-protection (RASP) integration
- Memory scanning for malware and exploits
- Preventing DLL injection and code cave attacks
- Detecting living-off-the-land binaries (LOLBins)
- Blocking unauthorised PowerShell and command execution
- Using eBPF for low-level telemetry and enforcement
- Kernel-level protection mechanisms
- Preventing container breakout attempts
- Hardening gRPC and inter-service communication
- Enforcing code signing for all executables
Module 20: Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Workload Security - Consistent policy enforcement across CSPs
- Unifying identity and access management
- Centralised monitoring and alerting dashboard
- Standardising logging formats and export
- Deploying agents consistently in heterogeneous environments
- Managing encryption key interoperability
- Handling network peering and transit routing securely
- Security considerations for edge workloads
- Protecting workloads in co-located data centres
- Designing failover and disaster recovery securely
Module 21: Security Governance and Policy Management - Defining organisation-wide cloud security policies
- Establishing change control processes
- Enforcing standards through automated tools
- Creating security review gates for deployments
- Managing exceptions and justifications
- Conducting regular policy reviews and updates
- Aligning security policies with business objectives
- Training teams on policy adherence
- Measuring policy compliance rates
- Escalating non-compliance to leadership
Module 22: Culture and Team Enablement - Building a security-first culture in DevOps
- Security champion programmes for engineering teams
- Conducting secure coding workshops
- Running cloud security tabletop exercises
- Sharing threat intelligence across departments
- Recognising and rewarding secure practices
- Reducing friction between security and development
- Communicating risk in business impact terms
- Creating runbooks for common security tasks
- Onboarding new engineers with secure practices
Module 23: Metrics, KPIs, and Executive Reporting - Defining security metrics that matter to leadership
- Tracking mean time to detect (MTTD) and respond (MTTR)
- Measuring policy compliance percentage
- Calculating risk reduction over time
- Reporting on cloud security spend efficiency
- Visualising attack surface trends
- Dashboarding for CISO and board presentations
- Translating technical findings into business risk
- Setting security OKRs and measuring success
- Forecasting security capacity needs
Module 24: Real-World Implementation Projects - Project 1: Securing a 3-tier web application in AWS
- Project 2: Hardening a Kubernetes cluster from scratch
- Project 3: Building a secure CI/CD pipeline with policy gates
- Project 4: Migrating an on-prem app to serverless securely
- Project 5: Implementing zero trust for microservices
- Project 6: Designing a compliant multi-account AWS landing zone
- Project 7: Creating automated incident response workflows
- Project 8: Developing a custom IaC security policy
- Project 9: Conducting a full workload threat model
- Project 10: Delivering a board-ready cloud security roadmap
Module 25: Certification, Next Steps & Career Advancement - Preparing for the final assessment
- Submitting your implementation portfolio
- Review process for Certificate of Completion
- Leveraging your certification in performance reviews
- Adding the credential to LinkedIn and resumes
- Connecting with alumni and industry networks
- Advanced learning paths in cloud security
- Transitioning into cloud security architect roles
- Negotiating higher compensation with verified skills
- Staying current with The Art of Service update alerts
- Securing orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, Nomad)
- Controlling automation script execution permissions
- Signing and verifying automation playbooks
- Hardening configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet)
- Managing credentials for automated workflows
- Preventing privilege escalation via automation
- Logging all automated changes for auditability
- Validating state convergence securely
- Using immutable automation agents
- Integrating with change advisory boards (CAB)
Module 16: Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) - Overview of top CWPP solutions and capabilities
- Workload inventory and discovery automation
- Agent-based vs. agentless deployment models
- Integrating with CSP-native tools (GuardDuty, Defender)
- Policy management and enforcement at scale
- Compliance reporting and dashboarding features
- Incident response workflows within CWPP
- Evaluating vendor capabilities against your needs
- Cost optimisation and licensing models
- Continuous assessment and adaptive protection
Module 17: Compliance and Audit Readiness - Mapping controls to ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIST, and CIS
- Preparing for cloud-specific compliance audits
- Generating automated compliance reports
- Documenting security configurations and decisions
- Implementing role-based access for auditors
- Using tagging for compliance boundary identification
- Automating evidence collection workflows
- Handling third-party audit requests securely
- Maintaining audit trails for 7+ years if required
- Conducting internal compliance self-assessments
Module 18: Incident Response and Recovery - Developing cloud-specific incident response playbooks
- Isolating compromised workloads without downtime
- Forensic data collection in ephemeral environments
- Snapshotting disks and memory securely
- Analysing logs for attack timelines
- Coordinating with CSP incident response teams
- Containment strategies for containerised workloads
- Automated rollback to known-good states
- Post-incident review and control improvements
- Communicating incidents to stakeholders clearly
Module 19: Advanced Threat Prevention Techniques - Runtime application self-protection (RASP) integration
- Memory scanning for malware and exploits
- Preventing DLL injection and code cave attacks
- Detecting living-off-the-land binaries (LOLBins)
- Blocking unauthorised PowerShell and command execution
- Using eBPF for low-level telemetry and enforcement
- Kernel-level protection mechanisms
- Preventing container breakout attempts
- Hardening gRPC and inter-service communication
- Enforcing code signing for all executables
Module 20: Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Workload Security - Consistent policy enforcement across CSPs
- Unifying identity and access management
- Centralised monitoring and alerting dashboard
- Standardising logging formats and export
- Deploying agents consistently in heterogeneous environments
- Managing encryption key interoperability
- Handling network peering and transit routing securely
- Security considerations for edge workloads
- Protecting workloads in co-located data centres
- Designing failover and disaster recovery securely
Module 21: Security Governance and Policy Management - Defining organisation-wide cloud security policies
- Establishing change control processes
- Enforcing standards through automated tools
- Creating security review gates for deployments
- Managing exceptions and justifications
- Conducting regular policy reviews and updates
- Aligning security policies with business objectives
- Training teams on policy adherence
- Measuring policy compliance rates
- Escalating non-compliance to leadership
Module 22: Culture and Team Enablement - Building a security-first culture in DevOps
- Security champion programmes for engineering teams
- Conducting secure coding workshops
- Running cloud security tabletop exercises
- Sharing threat intelligence across departments
- Recognising and rewarding secure practices
- Reducing friction between security and development
- Communicating risk in business impact terms
- Creating runbooks for common security tasks
- Onboarding new engineers with secure practices
Module 23: Metrics, KPIs, and Executive Reporting - Defining security metrics that matter to leadership
- Tracking mean time to detect (MTTD) and respond (MTTR)
- Measuring policy compliance percentage
- Calculating risk reduction over time
- Reporting on cloud security spend efficiency
- Visualising attack surface trends
- Dashboarding for CISO and board presentations
- Translating technical findings into business risk
- Setting security OKRs and measuring success
- Forecasting security capacity needs
Module 24: Real-World Implementation Projects - Project 1: Securing a 3-tier web application in AWS
- Project 2: Hardening a Kubernetes cluster from scratch
- Project 3: Building a secure CI/CD pipeline with policy gates
- Project 4: Migrating an on-prem app to serverless securely
- Project 5: Implementing zero trust for microservices
- Project 6: Designing a compliant multi-account AWS landing zone
- Project 7: Creating automated incident response workflows
- Project 8: Developing a custom IaC security policy
- Project 9: Conducting a full workload threat model
- Project 10: Delivering a board-ready cloud security roadmap
Module 25: Certification, Next Steps & Career Advancement - Preparing for the final assessment
- Submitting your implementation portfolio
- Review process for Certificate of Completion
- Leveraging your certification in performance reviews
- Adding the credential to LinkedIn and resumes
- Connecting with alumni and industry networks
- Advanced learning paths in cloud security
- Transitioning into cloud security architect roles
- Negotiating higher compensation with verified skills
- Staying current with The Art of Service update alerts
- Mapping controls to ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIST, and CIS
- Preparing for cloud-specific compliance audits
- Generating automated compliance reports
- Documenting security configurations and decisions
- Implementing role-based access for auditors
- Using tagging for compliance boundary identification
- Automating evidence collection workflows
- Handling third-party audit requests securely
- Maintaining audit trails for 7+ years if required
- Conducting internal compliance self-assessments
Module 18: Incident Response and Recovery - Developing cloud-specific incident response playbooks
- Isolating compromised workloads without downtime
- Forensic data collection in ephemeral environments
- Snapshotting disks and memory securely
- Analysing logs for attack timelines
- Coordinating with CSP incident response teams
- Containment strategies for containerised workloads
- Automated rollback to known-good states
- Post-incident review and control improvements
- Communicating incidents to stakeholders clearly
Module 19: Advanced Threat Prevention Techniques - Runtime application self-protection (RASP) integration
- Memory scanning for malware and exploits
- Preventing DLL injection and code cave attacks
- Detecting living-off-the-land binaries (LOLBins)
- Blocking unauthorised PowerShell and command execution
- Using eBPF for low-level telemetry and enforcement
- Kernel-level protection mechanisms
- Preventing container breakout attempts
- Hardening gRPC and inter-service communication
- Enforcing code signing for all executables
Module 20: Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Workload Security - Consistent policy enforcement across CSPs
- Unifying identity and access management
- Centralised monitoring and alerting dashboard
- Standardising logging formats and export
- Deploying agents consistently in heterogeneous environments
- Managing encryption key interoperability
- Handling network peering and transit routing securely
- Security considerations for edge workloads
- Protecting workloads in co-located data centres
- Designing failover and disaster recovery securely
Module 21: Security Governance and Policy Management - Defining organisation-wide cloud security policies
- Establishing change control processes
- Enforcing standards through automated tools
- Creating security review gates for deployments
- Managing exceptions and justifications
- Conducting regular policy reviews and updates
- Aligning security policies with business objectives
- Training teams on policy adherence
- Measuring policy compliance rates
- Escalating non-compliance to leadership
Module 22: Culture and Team Enablement - Building a security-first culture in DevOps
- Security champion programmes for engineering teams
- Conducting secure coding workshops
- Running cloud security tabletop exercises
- Sharing threat intelligence across departments
- Recognising and rewarding secure practices
- Reducing friction between security and development
- Communicating risk in business impact terms
- Creating runbooks for common security tasks
- Onboarding new engineers with secure practices
Module 23: Metrics, KPIs, and Executive Reporting - Defining security metrics that matter to leadership
- Tracking mean time to detect (MTTD) and respond (MTTR)
- Measuring policy compliance percentage
- Calculating risk reduction over time
- Reporting on cloud security spend efficiency
- Visualising attack surface trends
- Dashboarding for CISO and board presentations
- Translating technical findings into business risk
- Setting security OKRs and measuring success
- Forecasting security capacity needs
Module 24: Real-World Implementation Projects - Project 1: Securing a 3-tier web application in AWS
- Project 2: Hardening a Kubernetes cluster from scratch
- Project 3: Building a secure CI/CD pipeline with policy gates
- Project 4: Migrating an on-prem app to serverless securely
- Project 5: Implementing zero trust for microservices
- Project 6: Designing a compliant multi-account AWS landing zone
- Project 7: Creating automated incident response workflows
- Project 8: Developing a custom IaC security policy
- Project 9: Conducting a full workload threat model
- Project 10: Delivering a board-ready cloud security roadmap
Module 25: Certification, Next Steps & Career Advancement - Preparing for the final assessment
- Submitting your implementation portfolio
- Review process for Certificate of Completion
- Leveraging your certification in performance reviews
- Adding the credential to LinkedIn and resumes
- Connecting with alumni and industry networks
- Advanced learning paths in cloud security
- Transitioning into cloud security architect roles
- Negotiating higher compensation with verified skills
- Staying current with The Art of Service update alerts
- Runtime application self-protection (RASP) integration
- Memory scanning for malware and exploits
- Preventing DLL injection and code cave attacks
- Detecting living-off-the-land binaries (LOLBins)
- Blocking unauthorised PowerShell and command execution
- Using eBPF for low-level telemetry and enforcement
- Kernel-level protection mechanisms
- Preventing container breakout attempts
- Hardening gRPC and inter-service communication
- Enforcing code signing for all executables
Module 20: Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Workload Security - Consistent policy enforcement across CSPs
- Unifying identity and access management
- Centralised monitoring and alerting dashboard
- Standardising logging formats and export
- Deploying agents consistently in heterogeneous environments
- Managing encryption key interoperability
- Handling network peering and transit routing securely
- Security considerations for edge workloads
- Protecting workloads in co-located data centres
- Designing failover and disaster recovery securely
Module 21: Security Governance and Policy Management - Defining organisation-wide cloud security policies
- Establishing change control processes
- Enforcing standards through automated tools
- Creating security review gates for deployments
- Managing exceptions and justifications
- Conducting regular policy reviews and updates
- Aligning security policies with business objectives
- Training teams on policy adherence
- Measuring policy compliance rates
- Escalating non-compliance to leadership
Module 22: Culture and Team Enablement - Building a security-first culture in DevOps
- Security champion programmes for engineering teams
- Conducting secure coding workshops
- Running cloud security tabletop exercises
- Sharing threat intelligence across departments
- Recognising and rewarding secure practices
- Reducing friction between security and development
- Communicating risk in business impact terms
- Creating runbooks for common security tasks
- Onboarding new engineers with secure practices
Module 23: Metrics, KPIs, and Executive Reporting - Defining security metrics that matter to leadership
- Tracking mean time to detect (MTTD) and respond (MTTR)
- Measuring policy compliance percentage
- Calculating risk reduction over time
- Reporting on cloud security spend efficiency
- Visualising attack surface trends
- Dashboarding for CISO and board presentations
- Translating technical findings into business risk
- Setting security OKRs and measuring success
- Forecasting security capacity needs
Module 24: Real-World Implementation Projects - Project 1: Securing a 3-tier web application in AWS
- Project 2: Hardening a Kubernetes cluster from scratch
- Project 3: Building a secure CI/CD pipeline with policy gates
- Project 4: Migrating an on-prem app to serverless securely
- Project 5: Implementing zero trust for microservices
- Project 6: Designing a compliant multi-account AWS landing zone
- Project 7: Creating automated incident response workflows
- Project 8: Developing a custom IaC security policy
- Project 9: Conducting a full workload threat model
- Project 10: Delivering a board-ready cloud security roadmap
Module 25: Certification, Next Steps & Career Advancement - Preparing for the final assessment
- Submitting your implementation portfolio
- Review process for Certificate of Completion
- Leveraging your certification in performance reviews
- Adding the credential to LinkedIn and resumes
- Connecting with alumni and industry networks
- Advanced learning paths in cloud security
- Transitioning into cloud security architect roles
- Negotiating higher compensation with verified skills
- Staying current with The Art of Service update alerts
- Defining organisation-wide cloud security policies
- Establishing change control processes
- Enforcing standards through automated tools
- Creating security review gates for deployments
- Managing exceptions and justifications
- Conducting regular policy reviews and updates
- Aligning security policies with business objectives
- Training teams on policy adherence
- Measuring policy compliance rates
- Escalating non-compliance to leadership
Module 22: Culture and Team Enablement - Building a security-first culture in DevOps
- Security champion programmes for engineering teams
- Conducting secure coding workshops
- Running cloud security tabletop exercises
- Sharing threat intelligence across departments
- Recognising and rewarding secure practices
- Reducing friction between security and development
- Communicating risk in business impact terms
- Creating runbooks for common security tasks
- Onboarding new engineers with secure practices
Module 23: Metrics, KPIs, and Executive Reporting - Defining security metrics that matter to leadership
- Tracking mean time to detect (MTTD) and respond (MTTR)
- Measuring policy compliance percentage
- Calculating risk reduction over time
- Reporting on cloud security spend efficiency
- Visualising attack surface trends
- Dashboarding for CISO and board presentations
- Translating technical findings into business risk
- Setting security OKRs and measuring success
- Forecasting security capacity needs
Module 24: Real-World Implementation Projects - Project 1: Securing a 3-tier web application in AWS
- Project 2: Hardening a Kubernetes cluster from scratch
- Project 3: Building a secure CI/CD pipeline with policy gates
- Project 4: Migrating an on-prem app to serverless securely
- Project 5: Implementing zero trust for microservices
- Project 6: Designing a compliant multi-account AWS landing zone
- Project 7: Creating automated incident response workflows
- Project 8: Developing a custom IaC security policy
- Project 9: Conducting a full workload threat model
- Project 10: Delivering a board-ready cloud security roadmap
Module 25: Certification, Next Steps & Career Advancement - Preparing for the final assessment
- Submitting your implementation portfolio
- Review process for Certificate of Completion
- Leveraging your certification in performance reviews
- Adding the credential to LinkedIn and resumes
- Connecting with alumni and industry networks
- Advanced learning paths in cloud security
- Transitioning into cloud security architect roles
- Negotiating higher compensation with verified skills
- Staying current with The Art of Service update alerts
- Defining security metrics that matter to leadership
- Tracking mean time to detect (MTTD) and respond (MTTR)
- Measuring policy compliance percentage
- Calculating risk reduction over time
- Reporting on cloud security spend efficiency
- Visualising attack surface trends
- Dashboarding for CISO and board presentations
- Translating technical findings into business risk
- Setting security OKRs and measuring success
- Forecasting security capacity needs
Module 24: Real-World Implementation Projects - Project 1: Securing a 3-tier web application in AWS
- Project 2: Hardening a Kubernetes cluster from scratch
- Project 3: Building a secure CI/CD pipeline with policy gates
- Project 4: Migrating an on-prem app to serverless securely
- Project 5: Implementing zero trust for microservices
- Project 6: Designing a compliant multi-account AWS landing zone
- Project 7: Creating automated incident response workflows
- Project 8: Developing a custom IaC security policy
- Project 9: Conducting a full workload threat model
- Project 10: Delivering a board-ready cloud security roadmap
Module 25: Certification, Next Steps & Career Advancement - Preparing for the final assessment
- Submitting your implementation portfolio
- Review process for Certificate of Completion
- Leveraging your certification in performance reviews
- Adding the credential to LinkedIn and resumes
- Connecting with alumni and industry networks
- Advanced learning paths in cloud security
- Transitioning into cloud security architect roles
- Negotiating higher compensation with verified skills
- Staying current with The Art of Service update alerts
- Preparing for the final assessment
- Submitting your implementation portfolio
- Review process for Certificate of Completion
- Leveraging your certification in performance reviews
- Adding the credential to LinkedIn and resumes
- Connecting with alumni and industry networks
- Advanced learning paths in cloud security
- Transitioning into cloud security architect roles
- Negotiating higher compensation with verified skills
- Staying current with The Art of Service update alerts