Identity, Cloud & Secure Engineering
For administrators, cloud engineers and developers in government who must secure identities, cloud workloads and software: audit Active Directory, harden cloud accounts, remove insecure code and manage risk with evidence.
- Courses
- 3
- Study time
- 22 hours
- Lessons
- 15
- Practice labs
- 14
- Assessments
- 6
Courses in this path
Take them in this order. Each one has lessons, practice labs and an assessment.
Active Directory & Identity Security
Learn how Active Directory authenticates and authorises users, then audit it the way a defender does: privileged groups, stale accounts, password…
5 lessons, 5 labs, 2 assessments
View course →Cloud Security Fundamentals
Understand who secures what in the cloud, then audit the most common failure points: over-permissive IAM, exposed storage, open network rules,…
5 lessons, 5 labs, 2 assessments
View course →Secure Coding, Risk Assessment & Remediation
Find and fix insecure code, assess risk with a likelihood-times-impact register, and manage remediation from ticket to verified fix.
5 lessons, 4 labs, 2 assessments
View course →What you will be able to do
A sample of the skills the courses in this path teach.
- Explain domains, OUs, groups, GPOs, Kerberos and NTLM at concept level
- Identify excessive privilege, stale accounts and weak password policy from an exported listing
- Explain the shared responsibility model for IaaS, PaaS and SaaS
- Find over-permissive statements in an IAM policy
- Describe a secure SDLC and apply a code review checklist
- Identify hard-coded secrets, injection and access-control flaws in code
Before you start
Basic Windows administration and networking; familiarity with reading logs
Finish every lesson, lab and assessment of a course and you can claim a digitally signed certificate. Finish every course in the path and you can claim a path certificate too.