Infrastructure: secure core services

• Private and public cloud
• Security in cloud infrastructures
• Tools for managing cloud infrastructures
• Provisioning
• Migration
• Monitoring
• Centralized logging
• Directory services
• Identity management, authentication and authorization
• Basic performance analysis

Knowledge

• K1: The candidate has a basic understanding of the technology in private and public cloud solutions, including migration of infrastructures across platforms
• K2: The candidate has broad knowledge of various methods and tools for monitoring infrastructures
• K3: The candidate has broad knowledge of security challenges in cloud solutions

Skills

• F1: The candidate can use the most commonly used tools for managing cloud solutions
• F2: The candidate can perform basic setup for automated installation and provisioning
• F3: The candidate can perform centralized logging and monitoring including relevant incident management processes
• F4: The candidate can plan and perform basic setup of directory services and centralized solutions for identity management, authentication and authorization
• F5: The candidate can perform basic configuration management and software updates in cloud-based infrastructures
• F6: The candidate can perform simple performance assessments

General competence

• G1: The candidate is aware of the advantages and disadvantages of using cloud-based infrastructures in different organizations
• G2: The candidate can convey terminology in IT operations, both orally and in writing
• G3: The candidate knows how the risk landscape of organizations can be affected by the choice of different IT solutions

Lectures and exercises.