Ethical Hacking: Cloud Computing

- [Dan] The primary focus of this course is to make you think like an attacker attempting to compromise a cloud computing environment so that you can protect cloud computing environments. This is going to be done by us talking about cloud characteristics models and threats to cloud services. This is important as a starting point so that we can then apply the hacking process to cloud computing. That feeds into securing cloud identities, so working with cloud-based user accounts and groups and enabling multifactor authentication for user accounts. We're then going to be covering how to increase cloud system and data availability through back-ups and by replicating to alternate regions in case of a regional outage. We're also going to talk about how we can reduce the cloud attack surface. Some of these techniques will be similar to what you might do in an on-premises environment. Hi, I'm Dan Lachance. Over the years I've done IT work in the form of authoring tech books, programming, network administration, teaching classes and security management in on-premises and cloud environments.