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CompTIA Cloud Essentials+: Cloud Governance & Securing Data

Ensure data security and confidentiality in cloud computing through policy-based access control, data sovereignty, vulnerability assessment, and data availability.

  • Skill level

    Intermediate
  • Time to complete

    Approx. 2 hours
  • Certificate of completion

    Yes

About this course

Cloud consumers look for cloud services that follow regulations and core principles for maintaining data security and confidentiality. In this course, you'll investigate the cloud computing policy, which protects sensitive personal and confidential business data. You'll examine standard operating features, resource management, and security implementation checklist items and best practices for cloud computing. You'll then practice implementing policy-based access control for cloud computing. Moving on, you'll outline how to implement data sovereignty. You'll explore the international cloud computing standards, integrated vulnerability assessment solutions, and data security and privacy implementation in cloud computing. Finally, you'll outline how to implement and secure data and ensure availability in the cloud. You'll study the layers of security that can be implemented in the cloud, the cloud identity logs that help track events impacting cloud environments, and the OWASP Top 10 data-level authorization methods used to secure resources.

Learning objectives

  • Discover the key concepts covered in this course
  • Describe the cloud computing policy and guidelines that applies to all personal data, sensitive personal data, and confidential business data and information
  • Describe the standard cloud computing operating features from the perspective of business support, provisioning and configuration, and portability and interoperability requirements

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In this course, you'll watch videos created by industry-leading experts for some of the biggest tech companies in the world. They'll cover key concepts, go through sample applications, prepare you for industry certifications, and more. Watch on any device — whenever and wherever you want — to learn at your own pace.

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