After completing the course, the student should be able to do the following: Associate lists of OWASP Top Ten Risks with major cloud cybersecurity risks. Apply appropriate cryptographic techniques to secure authentication mechanisms and cloud data. Identify the most effective strategies for resisting injection attacks, cross-site scripting attacks, and object deserialization attacks. Assess strategies to address risks posed by administrative failures, including misconfiguration, broken access control, vulnerable software components, and security monitoring.

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Course 4 of 4 in the Cybersecurity in the Cloud Specialization

Syllabus

WEEK 1

Overview of the Top Ten Risks

Introduce the Top Ten Cloud Risks and their relationship to published OWASP Top Ten risk lists. Examine the highest-priority risk: injection attacks.

WEEK 2

Cloud Risks 2, 3, and 4

This module reviews risks arising from authentication failures, sensitive data exposure, and availability risks (e.g. flooding).

WEEK 3

Cloud Risks 5, 6, and 7

This module reviews risks arising from access control failures, security misconfiguration, and cross-site scripting.

Cloud Risks 8, 9, and 10

This module reviews risks arising from insecure deserialization, flawed software components, and inadequate logging or monitoring.

Cybersecurity in the Cloud Specialization

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Course Auditing

Coursera

University of Minnesota

Rick Smith

CS: Information & Technology