SEC510: Cloud Security Controls and Mitigations

SEC510 begins with cloud breach trends and the challenges of multicloud. Students explore IAM and machine identity risks, practice real-world attacks, and use tools like IAM analyzers to detect Broken Access Control. The section ends with strategies to prevent privilege escalation.

Section 2 focuses on securing cloud infrastructure and data by locking down network access. Students learn to restrict traffic, secure VMs, use private endpoints for PaaS, prevent RCE with data exfiltration, and analyze flow logs to detect malicious activity across all three major clouds.

Section 3 focuses on cloud data security, covering encryption, secure storage, ransomware defense, and access control. Students explore key management, in-transit encryption, and advanced storage protections like file versioning, data retention, and detecting sensitive data exposure.

Section 4 covers securing cloud app infrastructure and users, starting with serverless FaaS benefits and risks. Students harden real serverless functions, explore Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) threats like account takeover via Amazon Cognito, and protect the most critical services in Google Cloud’s Firebase platform.

The final section covers multicloud operations, focusing on IAM risks, safe credential use, and Workload Identity Federation. Students automate security checks with CSPM tools, explore trust issues with third-party platforms, and study how to mitigate a real cloud security vendor vulnerability using Microsoft Defender as a case study.