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HBCU Cyber Academy
SANS is offering the first ever HBCU Cyber Academy with applications opening January 17, 2022.
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Become a SANS Cloud Ace

Focus on where the cloud is going, not where it is today. Your organization is going to need someone with hands-on technical experience and cloud security-specific knowledge. You will be prepared not only for your current role, but also for a cutting-edge future in cloud security. 

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Featured Cloud Security Courses & Certifications

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SEC510: Public Cloud Security: AWS, Azure, and GCP
SEC510: Public Cloud Security: AWS, Azure, and GCP is an in-depth analysis of the security of managed services for the Big 3 cloud providers: Amazon Web Services, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. Students will leave the course confident that they have the knowledge they need when adopting services...
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  • GPCS

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SEC488: Cloud Security Essentials
Welcome to SANS SEC488: Cloud Security Essentials. This course covers Amazon Web Services, Azure, Google Cloud, and other cloud service providers (CSPs). Like foreign languages, cloud environments have similarities and differences, and this course will introduce you to the language of cloud...
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  • GCLD

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SEC541: Cloud Security Monitoring and Threat Detection
Cloud infrastructure provides organizations with new and exciting services to better meet the demands of their customers. However, these services bring with them new challenges, particularly for organizations struggling to make sense of the cloud native logs, keeping ahead of fast-moving...
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Cloud Security, Security Management, Legal, and Audit
SEC557: Continuous Automation for Enterprise and Cloud Compliance
Agile development, DevOps, cloud technologies, and virtualization have enabled organizations to build and deploy systems at a terrifyingly fast rate. The old and cumbersome manual ways to test security and compliance can't keep up. You need to understand and use the same tools and techniques that...
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    Cloud Security Certifications

    Securing the cloud is now essential across our global infrastructure. GIAC's cloud security certifications are designed to help you master the practical steps necessary for defending systems and applications in the cloud against the most dangerous threats. From web application security and DevOps automation to cloud-specific penetration testing - across public cloud, multi-cloud, and hybrid-cloud scenarios - we've got the credentials both professionals and organizations need to ensure cloud security at any enterprise.

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    To be a Cloud Ace, You Must Learn From One

    The exceptionally qualified people who author and teach SANS courses, and contribute to the GIAC Certification exams aligned with those courses, are the leaders in the field. Meet some of our instructors.
    Frank Kim is a SANS Fellow in the Cyberseurity Leadership and Cloud Security curricula.

    Frank Kim

    Fellow
    Frank Kim is the Founder of ThinkSec, a security consulting and CISO advisory firm. He leads the Cybersecurity Leadership and Cloud Security curricula at SANS, as well as authors and instructs multiple SANS courses.
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    Job Role Flight Plan
    SANS Cloud Security Curriculum has myriad courses that map to various job roles. Whether you're just starting on your flight into cloud or have been in the clouds for years, this flight plan will help you find your runway and heading to progress your cloud security career.
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    Challenge Coins
    The ultimate recognition to elite cybersecurity professionals. Hundreds of SANS Institute students have stepped up to the challenge and conquered. They've mastered the concepts and skills, beat out their classmates, and proven their prowess. These are the elite, the recipients of the SANS Challenge Coins, an award given to a select portion of the thousands of students that have taken SANS courses.
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    NEW GIAC Cloud Security Certifications

    Recently released GIAC Cloud Security Essentials (GCLD) affiliated with SEC488 and GIAC Public Cloud Security (GPCS) affiliated with SEC510.
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    Reviews

    I likely will be assessing environments that use multiple CSPs and services for one system, so this training is better for me than being certified in only AWS or only Azure.
    Margaret Ray
    - Federal Reserve Board of Dallas
    Labs were detailed and thought-provoking. Gave great thought to existing implementation and real-world examples.
    Collin Huber
    - Allstate Insurance
    I learned so much in 5 days – wish I had this a year ago when we first started getting into the Cloud!
    Thomas Buergi
    - Pacific Life Insurance Co.

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      About Cloud Security

      SANS Cloud Security focuses the deep resources of SANS on the growing threats to The Cloud by providing training, GIAC certification, research, and community initiatives to help security professionals build, deploy and manage secure cloud infrastructure, platforms, and applications.

      Our curriculum provides intensive, immersion training designed to help you and your staff master the practical steps necessary for defending systems and applications in the cloud against the most dangerous threats. The courses are full of important and immediately useful techniques that you can put to work as soon as you return to your office. The curriculum has been developed through a consensus process involving industry leading engineers, architects, administrators, developers, security managers, and information security professionals, and address public cloud, multicloud, and hybrid-cloud scenarios for the enterprise and developing organizations alike.

      GIAC's cloud security certifications are designed to help you master the practical steps necessary for defending systems and applications in the cloud against the most dangerous threats. From web application security and DevOps automation to cloud-specific penetration testing - across public cloud, multi-cloud, and hybrid-cloud scenarios - we've got the credentials both professionals and organizations need to ensure cloud security at any enterprise.