Cloud Top Ten Risks

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Free Online Course: Cloud Top Ten Risks provided by Coursera is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 3 weeks long, 9-10 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from Coursera. Cloud Top Ten Risks is taught by Rick Smith.

Overview
  • After completing the course, the student should be able to do the following:
    ● Associate lists of OWASP Top Ten Risks with major cloud cybersecurity risks.
    ● Apply appropriate cryptographic techniques to secure authentication mechanisms and cloud data.
    ● Identify the most effective strategies for resisting injection attacks, cross-site scripting attacks, and object deserialization attacks.
    ● Assess strategies to address risks posed by administrative failures, including misconfiguration, broken access control, vulnerable software components, and security monitoring.

Syllabus
    • Overview of the Top Ten Risks
      • Introduce the Top Ten Cloud Risks and their relationship to published OWASP Top Ten risk lists. Examine the highest-priority risk: injection attacks.
    • Cloud Risks 2, 3, and 4
      • This module reviews risks arising from authentication failures, sensitive data exposure, and availability risks (e.g. flooding).
    • Cloud Risks 5, 6, and 7
      • This module reviews risks arising from access control failures, security misconfiguration, and cross-site scripting.
    • Cloud Risks 8, 9, and 10
      • This module reviews risks arising from insecure deserialization, flawed software components, and inadequate logging or monitoring.