--- title: Cloud Security description: Cloud security focuses on protecting data, applications, and infrastructure in cloud environments. Learners will understand how to implement identity and access management, secure network configurations, and maintain compliance with industry standards. category: programming-tech subcategory: cloud-computing difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/cloud-security --- # Cloud Security Cloud security focuses on protecting data, applications, and infrastructure in cloud environments. Learners will understand how to implement identity and access management, secure network configurations, and maintain compliance with industry standards. ## Available Resources 1 Books • 4 Courses • 4 Websites ## Courses ### 1. Cloud Security Rooms Learn cloud security essentials and best practices with TryHackMe's interactive Cloud Security Rooms course! Hands-on labs included. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://tryhackme.com/path/outline/cloudsecurity **Tags:** cloud-security, hands-on-labs, aws, azure, penetration-testing ### 2. AWS Security Fundamentals Learn AWS security best practices and core concepts. Master cloud security fundamentals with this AWS course. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://explore.skillbuilder.aws/learn/public/learning-plan/view/72/aws-security-fundamentals-learning-plan **Tags:** cloud-security, aws, iam, compliance, shared-responsibility ### 3. Cloud Security Basics This course introduces you to cybersecurity for the cloud. We'll learn and apply classic security techniques to today’s cloud security problems. We start with a deceptively simple and secure web service and address the problems arising as we improve it. We’ll analyze recent cloud security vulnerabilities using standard, systematic techniques. We’ll build our own web service case studies and construct security solutions for them. Our toolkit contains classic security concepts like Least Privilege and Separation of Duty, as well as more technical cryptographic and access control techniques. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/cloud-security-basics **Tags:** cloud-security, access-control, cryptography, web-security, least-privilege ### 4. Identity Protection and Governance **Author:** Microsoft Second course in Microsoft's AZ-500 exam preparation series, covering Azure AD Identity Protection, Conditional Access, multifactor authentication, Privileged Identity Management, role-based access control, Azure Policy and resource locks. Learners finish able to secure and govern identities and access in Azure subscriptions. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/identity-protection-and-governance **Tags:** identity-and-access-management, azure, conditional-access, privileged-access-management, role-based-access-control, az-500 ## Websites ### 1. Google Skills Google's official training platform, offering guided labs that run in temporary, provisioned Google Cloud projects alongside courses and skill badges. Practice provisioning real resources, IAM, networking and storage against Google's own environment rather than a simulator. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.skills.google/ **Tags:** google-cloud, gcp, hands-on-labs, cloud-computing ### 2. cloudsecurityalliance.org Cloud Security Alliance is a nonprofit that provides cloud security guidance, best practices, and research. The site offers resources such as the Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM), STAR registry, whitepapers, training, and events to help organizations secure cloud deployments. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://cloudsecurityalliance.org **Tags:** websites, technology-computer-science, cloud-computing ### 3. cloud.google.com/security Google Cloud Security is the official security resource hub for Google Cloud, providing guidance, best practices, and documentation to secure workloads on Google Cloud. It covers identity and access management, data protection, network and threat security, and compliance, with product security insights, whitepapers, and case studies. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://cloud.google.com/security **Tags:** websites, technology-computer-science, cybersecurity ### 4. aws.amazon.com/security AWS Security is the official hub for cloud-security guidance and service documentation, covering identity and access, data protection, threat detection, compliance, and incident response for workloads on AWS. It hosts security whitepapers, compliance information, service overviews, tutorials, blogs, and updates to help you implement secure architectures on AWS. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://aws.amazon.com/security **Tags:** websites, technology-computer-science, cloud-computing ## Podcasts ### 1. Cloud Security Podcast **Author:** Anton Chuvakin Cloud Security Podcast by Google focuses on security in the cloud, delivering security from the cloud, and all things at the intersection of security and cloud. Of course, we will also cover what we are doing in Google Cloud to help keep our users' data safe and workloads secure. We're going to do our best to avoid security theater, and cut to the heart of real security questions and issues. Expect us to question threat models and ask if something is done for the data subject's benefit or just for organizational benefit. We hope you'll join us if you're interested... **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://cloud.withgoogle.com/cloudsecurity/podcast/ **Tags:** cloud-security, google-cloud, threat-detection, security-operations, interviews ## Books ### 1. Practical Cloud Security **Author:** Chris Dotson Maps cloud security work onto asset inventory, identity and access management, vulnerability management, network controls, and incident response across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Readers finish able to prioritize controls for a real deployment. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1492037516?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, technology-computer-science, cloud-computing --- *This content is part of Dantes.io - Your Treasure Map to Knowledge* *Curated by humans at Dantes.io. Personal study use welcome; republishing this curation requires permission (team@dantes.io).* View this page online: https://dantes.io/subject/cloud-security