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Cloud Security Fundamentals

Security is Everyone's Job — The Shared Responsibility Model in Practice

4 hours 7 modules

The framework

Shared Responsibility + Defence-in-Depth

Two complementary frameworks: Shared Responsibility (what AWS vs customer secures) and Defence-in-Depth (seven security layers from data to physical).

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How you'll learn

Text-first. Practice-heavy. No video lectures.

15-minute text lessons

Short, dense reading you can finish between meetings — not hour-long video lectures.

Hands-on exercises

Apply the framework to a realistic scenario, right in the module where you learned it.

Quizzes & assessments

Check your judgment, not just your memory — most questions are situational.

Certificate on completion

Finish a course and get a shareable certificate, automatically.

About this course

Learn to think about cloud security using the Shared Responsibility Model as your primary framework. Apply defence-in-depth principles across identity, network, data, and application layers.

The project: Security Posture Assessment

Conduct a structured security posture assessment of a fictional AWS environment. Identify misconfigurations and produce a prioritised remediation plan.

  1. 1

    The Shared Responsibility Model & Defence-in-Depth

    30 min· Knowledge check
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  2. 2

    IAM Deep Dive, Network Security & Security Monitoring

    30 min· Knowledge check
  3. 3

    Data Protection: Encryption, KMS & Secrets Management

    Protecting the data layer itself — encryption at rest and in transit, key management, and the discipline of secrets.

    22 min· Knowledge check
  4. 4

    Threat Detection & Incident Response in the Cloud

    GuardDuty, Security Hub, and CloudTrail — building the detection layer, and the response playbook for when it fires.

    22 min· Knowledge check
  5. 5

    Compliance as Code: Guardrails, Not Gates

    AWS Config, Organizations SCPs, and policy-as-code — enforcing standards continuously instead of auditing them annually.

    20 min· Knowledge check
  6. 6

    The Cloud Security Maturity Model & Failure Modes

    Where organisations actually are on the security journey — and the recurring failure patterns that mark each stage.

    20 min· Knowledge check
  7. 7

    Capstone: Secure a Workload End-to-End

    Apply the full security framework stack to one realistic workload: shared responsibility, defence-in-depth, data protection, detection and guardrails.

    50 min· Knowledge check