Cloud Management and Security: Principles and Best Practices

Start Date End Date Venue Fees (US $)
16 Nov 2025 Cairo, Egypt $ 3,500 Register

Cloud Management and Security: Principles and Best Practices

Introduction

Cloud computing is a new concept using old technologies. It has quickly become a vital tool in organizations across all industries as an Internet-scale computing infrastructure. Nevertheless, despite Cloud computing’s increasing relevance and popularity; there is a lack of understanding of the security risks associated with Clouds and optimal approaches for migration into Clouds. This course covers these from a practical angle; specifically, it covers Cloud computing architecture, management services, and security challenges. It also discusses Cloud migration planning and the main requirements to move current Cloud untrusted infrastructure to a trustworthy Internet-scale Cloud critical computing infrastructure.

Objectives

    At the end of this training course, participants will learn to:

    • Understand cloud strengths and misconceptions, and discuss its benefits and weaknesses
    • Explain cloud structure, properties, and management services
    • Set a cloud adoption strategy
    • Discuss the main requirements to move current cloud untrusted infrastructure to a trustworthy internet-scale cloud critical computing infrastructure
    • Analyze the major risks associated with the different cloud services and deployment models
    • Discuss the main principles, mechanisms, and best practices for treating cloud risks
    • Demonstrate the discussed concepts using practical case studies, business models, and industrial tools

Training Methodology

This is an interactive course. There will be open question and answer sessions, regular group exercises and activities, videos, case studies, and presentations on best practices. Participants will have the opportunity to share with the facilitator and other participants what works well and not so well for them, as well as work on issues from their own organizations. The online course is conducted online using MS-Teams/ClickMeeting.

Who Should Attend?

IT and infrastructure leaders, decision-makers (CxO), risk analysts, strategic planners, architects, administrators, software and business developers, and project managers

Target Competencies

  • Cloud management
  • Identity management
  • Access management
  • Security risks management

Course Outline

Day 1: Cloud Overview

  • Cloud definition, misconceptions, and evolution
  • Cloud services and deployment types
  • Challenges

Day 2: Cloud Management

  • Cloud structure and its properties
  • Virtual and application layer management services
  • Cloud dynamic nature and its challenges
  • Application development and integration within clouds
  • Security best practices for automating cloud infrastructure management
  • Clarifying the concepts using industrial platforms

Day 3: Establishing Trust in Clouds

  • Defining cloud trustworthiness
  • Its properties
  • Assessing cloud trustworthiness
  • Establishing trust in:
  • Private
  • Hybrid
  • Community
  • Public cloud deployment types
  • Establishing trust in:
  • IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) 
  • PaaS (Platform as a Service)
  • SaaS (Software as a Service)
  • Clarifying the concepts using the open stack management platform

Day 4: Identity and Access Management

  • Authentication
  • Authorization
  • Access management
  • Federated access management
  • Insiders vs attackers
  • Insiders analysis and management
  • Related industrial tools:
  • Cloud insider treatments
  • Cloud strong authentication

Day 5: Provenance in Clouds

  • Definition and attributes
  • Challenges faced
  • Security risks mitigation using provenance
  • Case studies for using provenance:
  • Forensic investigation
  • Trustworthy operational management
  • Proactive and predictive management
  • Bill assurance
  • Related industrial tools

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