Cloud Security Concepts

(Upbeat Music) Welcome and thanks for joining us for this overview for the course on cloud security concepts. I'm Sophie Goodwin and I'll be your host, kind of your learner advocate throughout this course, asking questions along the way that you might have at home. I am certified in cybersecurity from ISC2. So I have a little bit of background in this, but the guy that's gonna be leading this expedition, if you will, I sound like Chat GPT, is Mr. Daniel Lowry. He's gonna be our subject matter expert for, yeah. He's got some vision problems, so we'll be patient with him. He's gonna be our subject matter expert for this course. So Daniel, I'm curious, tell us a little bit about you. A little bit about me, well, I've used a computer before. That's good. That was fun. I joined it so much, I made a career out of it. Wow. For 20 some odd years at this point in time. So I've seen a lot of technologies come and go and cloud being no exception and cloud being probably is the thing, right? Everybody's moving to the cloud. You're not in the cloud now, you're a caveman. So you gotta get there and security is the other big thing. We gotta marry these two things together. So my background has been using mostly with AWS, SARS Cloud goes, but I do have an extensive security background as well. I do cybersecurity for the most part and I have done cybersecurity for cloud systems. That's why I'm here helping you today. That's good to know, because we are talking about cloud security quite a bit in this course, but specifically without giving too much away, can you maybe give us a hint as to what we're gonna learn in this course? So this is kind of a conceptual course, right? I wanna kind of give you those basics, those foundational nuggets of knowledge that are gonna help you as you move into a practitioner. Okay, so we're gonna learn a lot of things when it comes to vulnerability management. It's one of the bigger kind of concepts that you need to be around cloud compliance and regulation and another big dog on the block, but also cloud access, how do we access things? How do we work with things like IAM, the identity and access management systems found in a lot of cloud environments, looking at security best practices, as well as security controls and different attacks that you might encounter in your cloud-based systems. Okay, so for folks that are watching this overview, thinking they might wanna join us for this course, should they have any prerequisite knowledge? Like who is this course for? This course is definitely aimed toward the beginner, right? Oh, good. So if you have some knowledge of just general computing, that will definitely be helpful, knowing Windows operating system, maybe a little bit of Linux here and there, and just technology in general, web browsing, going through those things. You don't have to be necessarily a cloud guru at all either, but some basic fundamental understanding of just what AWS is, what Azure is, what GCP is, and how they get used. It would be helpful, but not necessary. Okay, from there, we are going to then look into giving you those pieces of knowledge of, in those systems, what are my options when it comes to security? What are the things I need to be on the lookout for? Okay, so even if some of that stuff wasn't super familiar to you, you should be able to play a little bit of catch-up while you're watching this course, as opposed to playing mustard. That was a bad joke. (Laughs) We're gonna go ahead and call it there, and I feel like now we've got some insight into Daniel's background and why he's here teaching us this stuff, and of course, some things that you can expect in this course, but that's gonna do it for this overview. Thanks so much for joining us, and we will see you in the Cloud Security Concepts course. (Upbeat Music)