This course is part of the Advanced System Security Design Specialization

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Advanced System Security Design SpecializationUniversity of Colorado System

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In this MOOC, we will learn Cloud Computing basics using AWS as an example,  We will guide you to create AWS account, planning AWS resources for your cloud systems, create AWS EC2 instances, access them and configure the popular LAMP web services with MySQL database. We will guide you to create user accounts for your programmer or operators using AWS Identify and Access management GUI, Register your domain name and setup DNS entry for your servers using AWS Route 53 in 22 mintues! and show you how to use AWS Command Line interface to create and managing instances and services programmatically. We then introduce AWS Load balancing feature, create load balancing cluster for scalability and reliability.  We also demonstrate how to diagnose the problem introduced by the health check and firewall restriction conflicts.   By the end of this course, you should be able to create your own web cluster with mysql databases, setup your users with credentials to manage your AWS resources/virtual machines either through their management control interface or using AWS CLI API using scripts.  You will also learn the best practice in cloud security and debugging service interaction issues may arise in the cloud systems.

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Approx. 12 hours to complete

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Edward Chow

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Week1

Week 1

3 hours to complete

Cloud Computing Basics

3 hours to complete

6 videos (Total 44 min), 5 readings, 1 quiz

Week2

Week 2

5 hours to complete

Secure Server Configuration and Integrated Access Management

In this module, we learn how to sign up AWS account, create/configure/manage AWS EC2 instances, access them and configure the Linux operating system, Apache web server, MySQL database, and PHP server side scripting support. We also learn how to follow the best security practice to create user accounts with different privileges using AWS IAM service. We learn how to use AWS Command Line Interface to create AWS EC2 instances and control AWS Resources. It allows for programming control of the EC2 instances.

5 hours to complete

6 videos (Total 68 min), 4 readings, 3 quizzes

6 videos

Create an AWS Instance18mSecure Access to AWS Instance6mConfigure LAMP Server Software Packages10mIdentity and Access Management13mAWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)8mUse AWS ClI to clone and manage instances11m

4 readings

Microsoft Azure an AWS Alternative20mBiomedical Cloud Computing With Amazon Web Services20mIAM Beyond Compliance Article30mAWS Command Line Interface10m

1 practice exercise

Quiz 1.230m

Week3

Week 3

2 hours to complete

Utilize Route53 DNS

2 hours to complete

2 videos (Total 21 min), 2 readings, 1 quiz

Week4

Week 4

3 hours to complete

AWS Load Balancer

In this module, we learn how to utilize the AWS load balancer support to create load balancing clusters to provide high available services based on round robin and customize rules with header content. We learn how to create application load balancer to distribute http requests to target groups with instances, and configure the health check mechanism so that the load balancing can avoid unhealthy or unresponsive instances. We also learn show to debug the common mistake of AWS load balancing configuration due to the misconfiguration of the security group in the target instances. The cost formula related to the usage of AWS load balancing service are also covered.

3 hours to complete

3 videos (Total 38 min), 4 readings, 2 quizzes

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TOP REVIEWS FROM CLOUD COMPUTING SECURITY

by PCJan 20, 2020

Very good course giving exposure to fundamentals of Cloud Computing & various AWS Security platforms.

by JPJul 11, 2019

It's a very good course with a good mix of fundamental understanding of AWS concepts and hands on experience on basic configurations. It really helped me in enhancing my Cloud Security skills.

by AAFeb 18, 2019

very useful and interesting to learn more about cloud computing and secuirty

by FSAug 18, 2022

good basic course on cloud computing and basic security configuration on AWS

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About the Advanced System Security Design Specialization

This specialization is intended for intermediate level learners with basic programming skills and basic cybersecurity knowledge. Through this course learner will learn about advanced secure software techniques such as those for cloud computing, TOR, web-based cryptography, and geo-location/context based access control. With these techniques, learners will be better prepared to implement new security and privacy preserving data security features, to perform secure system design and implementation, vulnerability analysis, and Securely Provision (SP), Operate and Maintain (OM), Oversee and Govern (OV), Protect and Defend (PR), Analyze (AN), Collect and Operate (CO), and investigate (IN) tasks.

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