This course gives you an overview of how Cisco cloud security solutions can secure cloud environments to:

• Block threats earlier: Stop malware before it reaches your network and endpoints, reducing the time spent remediating infections
• Extend protection to the cloud: Remove blind spots and protect users anywhere they go anywhere they access the Internet
• Secure users, information, and applications: Protect users, data, and applications in the cloud against compromised accounts, cloud-native threads, and data breaches. Support regulatory compliance
• Enable highly secure cloud use: Improve security while boosting end user productivity

After taking this course, you should be able to:

• Describe public, private, and hybrid cloud models, concepts, and design
• Explain the concepts and components for securing cloud environments
• Describe Cisco security offerings for Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Define methods to secure SaaS application usage

This course benefits cloud consumers and administrators of public cloud, private cloud, and hybrid cloud infrastructures:

• Security architects
• Cloud architects
• Network engineers and administrators
• System engineers and administrators
• Cloud security consumers
• Cloud application administrators
• IT managers
• Line of business managers
• Cisco integrators and partners

Introducing the Cloud

• Describe the Evolution of Cloud Computing
• Explain Cloud Service Models
• Explore Cloud Deployment Models

Introducing Securing the Cloud

• Describe the Cisco Threat-Centric Approach to Network Security
• Describe Cloud Physical Environment Security
• Describe Cloud Network Infrastructure Security
• Explain Application Security
• Explore Cloud Management and API Security
• Describe Cisco Cloud-Based Security Solutions
• Describe Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), Virtual Network Function (VNF), and Secure Agile Exchange (SAE)
• Describe Cisco CloudCenter for MultiCloud Management
• Describe Cisco Stealthwatch

Describing Cloud Security Solutions Using AWS

• Identify AWS Security Offerings
• Identify Cisco Security Solutions in AWS

Introducing Security in an SaaS Environment

• Describe SaaS Applications
• Describe SaaS Security Challenges
• Explain Cloud Access Security Broker
• Describe Cisco CloudLock
• Describe OAuth and OAuth Attacks
• Describe Cisco Advanced Malware Protection for Endpoints
• Describe Cisco Cloud Email Security
• Describe Cisco Umbrella