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SANS Spotlight: Cloud Security Training Opportunities

Please see below for a curated collection of training opportunities to help you develop practical cloud security skills.
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Training Events Featuring Cloud Security Courses

Learn real-world cyber security skills directly from top industry experts during SANS Live Training events featuring interactive courses with hands-on labs, plus cyber range challenges and networking opportunities.
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Event Details: April 10-15, 2022 Live Online or in Orlando, FL Cloud Security Courses Available: SEC488, SEC588, SEC510, FOR509, SEC541, SEC557
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Event Details: May 23-28, 2022 Live Online | CDT Cloud Security Courses Available: SEC488, SEC510, SEC540
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Event Details: June 13-18, 2022 Live Online | EDT Cloud Security Courses Available: SEC488, SEC588, SEC510, SEC540, SEC541, MGT516, SEC557
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SANS Security West 2022

Join us for SANS Security West 2022 (May 5-10) to experience hands-on courses, test your skills during NetWars Tournaments, and make new connections. Attend Live Online or in San Diego, CA. Cloud Security courses include SEC488, SEC588, FOR509, MGT516, SEC522, and SEC557. We are excited to announce we will be hosting this year’s CloudSecNext Summit Live Online on May 3 & 4 before SANS Security West 2022! Bundle your course with the Summit, and join us for this unique experience.
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See below for featured SANS Cloud Security courses, view our free course demos, and find a training format that works for you.

I believe this is the best cloud security training out there, that is extremely well balanced, with relevant labs, and provides a solid understanding of cloud security risks.
Srinath Kannan
- Accenture
An understanding of vulnerability management and cloud security is becoming not only valuable, but a necessity to keep one's organization secure in this constantly changing and dynamic environment.
Kae David
- EY
I look forward to going back to my office with more confidence and a greater understanding of all things cloud.
Tori Lineberry
- Savannah River Nuclear Solutions

    SANS Cloud Security Course Demos

    There’s no better way to see our top instructors in action, evaluate the subject matter and course difficulty level than through our course demos. Click on Course Details to see a course demo and discover the course’s availability in our different training formats. Just make sure you’re logged into your SANS portal account to access them. Here are some SANS Cloud Security courses to get you started.
    Cloud Security
    SEC510: Public Cloud Security: AWS, Azure, and GCP
    Organizations are becoming multi cloud by choice or by chance. However, although cloud providers are responsible for the security of the cloud, their customers are responsible for what they do in the cloud. Unfortunately, the providers have made the customer's job difficult by offering hundreds of...
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    • GPCS

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    Digital Forensics and Incident Response, Cloud Security
    FOR509: Enterprise Cloud Forensics and Incident Response
    The world is changing and so is the data we need to conduct our investigations. Cloud platforms change how data is stored and accessed. They remove the examiner's ability to directly access systems and use classical data extraction methods. Unfortunately, many examiners are still trying to force...
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    • GCFR

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    Cloud Security, Penetration Testing and Red Teaming
    SEC588: Cloud Penetration Testing
    SEC588 will equip you with the latest cloud-focused penetration testing techniques and teach you how to assess cloud environments. The course dives into topics like cloud-based microservices, in-memory data stores, serverless functions, Kubernetes meshes, and containers. It also looks at how to...
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    • GCPN

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    Cloud Security
    SEC488: Cloud Security Essentials
    More businesses than ever are moving sensitive data and shifting mission-critical workloads to the cloud, and not just to one cloud service provider (CSP). Organizations are responsible for securing their data and mission-critical applications in the cloud. The benefits in terms of cost and speed...
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    • GCLD

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    Cloud Security
    SEC541: Cloud Security Attacker Techniques, Monitoring, and Threat Detection
    The rapid adoption of cloud services has created exciting new business capabilities and new cyber-attack opportunities. To detect these threats, companies require skilled security analysts who understand attack techniques, perform cloud security monitoring and investigations, and detection...
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    • GCTD

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    Cloud Security
    SEC540: Cloud Security and DevSecOps Automation
    Organizations are moving to the cloud to enable digital transformation and reap the benefits of cloud computing. However, security teams struggle to understand the DevOps toolchain and how to introduce security controls in their automated pipelines responsible for delivering changes to cloud-based...
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    • GCSA

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    Security Management, Legal, and Audit, Cloud Security
    MGT516: Building and Leading Vulnerability Management Programs
    Vulnerability, patch, and configuration management are not new enterprise security topics. In fact, they are some of the oldest security functions. Yet, we still struggle to manage security vulnerability capabilities effectively. The quantity of outstanding vulnerabilities for most enterprise...
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    Cloud Security
    SEC522: Application Security: Securing Web Apps, APIs, and Microservices
    Web Applications are increasingly distributed. What used to be a complex monolithic application hosted on premise has become a distributed set of services incorporating on-premise legacy applications along with interfaces to cloud-hosted and cloud-native components. Because of this coupled with a...
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    • GWEB

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    Security Management, Legal, and Audit, Cloud Security
    MGT520: Leading Cloud Security Design and Implementation
    While the cloud environment may appear similar to running a traditional IT environment on the premises, the cloud solutions protection requirements are in fact very different because the traditional network perimeter is no longer the best line of defense, and the threat vectors are not the same....
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