Infrastructure: secure core services

• Private and public cloud solutions
• Security challenges that are specific to cloud solutions
• Tools for managing cloud solutions
• Installation and availability
• Infrastructure migration
• Surveillance
• Centralized logging
• Catalog 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

• S1: The candidate can use the most used tools for managing cloud solutions
• S2: The candidate can perform basic setup for automated installation and provisioning (provisioning)
• S3: The candidate can perform centralized logging and monitoring with associated incident management processes
• S4: The candidate can plan and perform basic setup of directory services and centralized solutions for identity management, authentication and authorization
• S5: The candidate can perform basic configuration management and software updates in cloud-based infrastructures
• S6: The candidate can perform simple performance appraisals

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 operational terminology, both orally and in writing
• G3: The candidate knows how the risk picture of organizations can be affected by the choice of different IT solutions

Lectures, problem solving individually and in groups, lab exercises.