Название: ISC2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) Exam Guide: Essential strategies for compliance, governance and risk management
Автор: Kim van Lavieren
Издательство: BPB Publications
Год: 2024
Страниц: 514
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub (true)
Размер: 10.1 MB

Take your career to the next level by becoming an ISC2 certified cloud security professional (CCSP).

Key features:
- Prepares you to crack the ISC2 CCSP exam successfully.
- Provides you with concrete knowledge and skills to secure your organization's cloud.
- Covers all six domains of the CCSP exam in detail for a clear understanding of cloud security.

Description:
Cloud security is a rapidly evolving field, demanding professionals with specialized knowledge and expertise. This book equips you with the foundational understanding and practical skills necessary to excel in this critical domain, preparing you to confidently pass the CCSP exam.

Discover cloud computing basics, security, and risk management in this book. Learn about data security intricacies, infrastructure protection, and secure configuration. Proactively manage risks with vulnerability assessments, threat mitigation, and incident response. Understand legal and privacy considerations, including international regulations. Dive into identity and access management using tools like SSO and CASBs. Explore cloud application architecture, incorporating security tools like WAFs and API gateways. Get ready for certifications like CCSP with dedicated exam preparation sections.

Arm yourself with the knowledge and practical skills cultivated throughout this guide. Confidently navigate the ever-evolving landscape, tackle real-world challenges, and stand out as a CCSP certified professional.

What you will learn:
- You will learn about cloud concepts, secure architectures, and secure design.
- You will learn how to secure data, applications, and infrastructure in the cloud.
- Understand data residency and legal considerations for cloud data storage.
- Implement risk management frameworks for cloud environments.
- You will learn to navigate laws and regulations, manage risk, and ensure compliance.

Who this book is for:
This book is intended for security architects, security consultants, security engineers, security analysts, cloud architects, cloud engineers, cloud consultants, cloud administrators, cloud security analysts, and professional cloud developers who wish to secure cloud environments, architectures, designs, applications, and operations.

The book is divided into 24 chapters that cover the domains of the ISC2 CCSP exam. The details are listed below:

Chapter 1: Understanding Cloud Computing Concepts - Cloud computing is different from on-premise computing in many aspects. This chapter highlights definitions related to cloud computing and examines the shared responsibility model between Cloud Service Providers and customers. The chapter reviews cloud computing characteristics and common technologies in the cloud domain and explores the different levels and models for cloud computing

Chapter 2: Concepts and Design Principles of Cloud Security - Security in the cloud relies on foundational concepts and design principles. This chapter explores how cryptography, Identity and Access Management (IAM), network security, and other concepts form the building blocks of cloud security.

Chapter 3: Evaluating Cloud Service Providers - In a world with a wide variety of Cloud Service Providers, it is challenging to pick a provider that meets your requirements. This chapter helps you pick a CSP by providing methods to evaluate different vendors against your business requirements

Chapter 4: Discover, Classify, and Manage Cloud Data - Storing data in the cloud may sound scary, however, implementing good mechanisms to discover, classify, and manage data in the cloud will offer you unprecedented data security.

Chapter 5: Cloud Storage Architectures and their Security Technologies - Now that you know how data “lives” in the cloud, it is time to explore how different architectures support data types. This chapter explores different architectures for data storage, the threats they face, and what security technologies should be implemented for them.
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Chapter 22: Duties of a CCSP - Passing the CCSP exam allows you to join a select group of cloud security experts. However, being a CCSP or associate of ISC2 also bears Responsibilities. In this chapter, the responsibilities of a CCSP are highlighted based on the ISC2 code of ethics.

Chapter 23: Exam Tips - The exam tips section highlights a breakdown of the exam process and provides tips and tricks to approach the exam most effectively.

Chapter 24: Exam Questions - The exam prep section contains a CCSP practice exam to test your knowledge across the six different domains.