Cloud Data, Platform and Applications Security

This comprehensive cloud security course provides expert training to protect every layer of the cloud environment. You will learn how to secure cloud data throughout its entire lifecycle—from creation and storage to usage, sharing, archiving, and destruction. Gain practical skills in data classification, data obfuscation, and key and certificate management to enforce strong data security policies and maintain compliance.

You will explore cloud platform and infrastructure security, including designing secure physical data centers, network architectures, virtualization, cloud compute and storage components, and management planes. Learn to identify vulnerabilities, mitigate risks, and develop effective business continuity and disaster recovery plans to ensure resilient cloud operations.

The course also covers essential cloud application security topics such as secure software development lifecycles (SDLC), threat modeling, OWASP API security, secure coding techniques, and managing third-party software risks. You will master cloud identity and access management (IAM) solutions such as federated identity, single sign-on (SSO), multi-factor authentication (MFA), cloud access security brokers (CASBs), and secrets management to safeguard access and protect sensitive resources.

About the Instructors

Michael J Shannon began his IT career when he transitioned from recording studio engineer to network technician for a major telecommunications company in the early 1990’s. He soon began to focus on security and was one of the first 10 people to attain the HIPAA Certified Security Specialist. Throughout his 30 years in IT, he has worked as an employee, contractor, and consultant for several companies including Platinum Technologies, Fujitsu, IBM, State Farm, MindSharp, Thomson, Pearson, and Skillsoft among others. Mr. Shannon has authored several books, training manuals, blog articles, and CBT modules over the years as well. He has attained the CISSP, ITIL 4 Managing Professional, CCNP Security, Palo Alto PCNSE7 and OpenFAIR certifications in the security field as well as several cloud-based certifications for AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. His hobbies are playing guitar, songwriting, and golf. He resides with his wife in Abilene Texas.