University of Minnesota
Cybersecurity in the Cloud Specialization

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University of Minnesota

Cybersecurity in the Cloud Specialization

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

Rick Smith

Instructor: Rick Smith

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(85 reviews)

Beginner level

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1 month at 10 hours a week
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Share your expertise with employers

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Taught in English
33 practice exercises

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Specialization - 4 course series

What you'll learn

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

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

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

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

Skills you'll gain

Category: Cryptography
Category: Cloud Security
Category: Encryption
Category: Public Key Infrastructure
Category: Network Security
Category: Security Controls
Category: Virtualization
Category: Infrastructure Security
Category: Remote Access Systems
Category: Virtual Machines
Category: Cloud Computing
Category: Cybersecurity
Category: Authorization (Computing)
Category: Vulnerability Assessments
Category: Information Systems Security
Category: Application Security

What you'll learn

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

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

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Security
Category: Relational Databases
Category: Encryption
Category: Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act (HIPAA) Compliance
Category: General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Category: SQL
Category: Cloud Security
Category: Cloud Services
Category: Information Privacy
Category: Data Integrity
Category: Security Controls
Category: Data Governance
Category: Cloud Platforms
Category: Personally Identifiable Information
Category: Cloud Storage

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: Cloud Security
Category: Application Security
Category: Key Management
Category: Authentications
Category: Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
Category: Cloud Applications
Category: Web Services
Category: Multi-Factor Authentication
Category: Distributed Denial-Of-Service (DDoS) Attacks
Category: Secure Coding
Category: Cloud Computing
Category: Identity and Access Management
Category: DevSecOps

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: Cloud Security
Category: Authentications
Category: Security Testing
Category: Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
Category: Application Security
Category: System Monitoring
Category: Security Controls
Category: Cryptography
Category: Threat Management
Category: Authorization (Computing)
Category: Identity and Access Management
Category: Secure Coding
Category: Data Security
Category: Cyber Risk
Category: Cloud Computing

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Rick Smith
University of Minnesota
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