CIS 225 - Cloud Security

Credit Hours 3
Lecture: 2 Lab: 2
In today’s interconnected digital landscape, ensuring robust cloud security is paramount. This course equips students with the knowledge and skills required to effectively secure cloud-based environments. It covers fundamental cloud security principles, shared responsibilities, and strategies to mitigate threats and vulnerabilities. Students learn to design secure cloud architectures, emphasizing data protection, encryption, and storage. The course also explores network security, compliance, incident response, and application security, with practical scenarios to apply their knowledge. By course end, students possess the expertise to confidently navigate the complexities of cloud security and help organizations safeguard their digital assets while prioritizing data privacy and integrity.

This Cloud Security course empowers students to confidently navigate the complex world of cloud security. It provides the expertise needed to help organizations secure their digital assets in the cloud while promoting data privacy, integrity, and confidentiality. Students gain in-depth knowledge of cloud security best practices and the ability to implement security as code and infrastructure as code, ensuring the protection of digital assets in cloud-based environments.

Prerequisite(s):

Basic understanding of networking and IT concepts.
Familiarity with cloud services is helpful but not required.

The following courses may be taken as a prerequisite or concurrently; or with the consent of the department.

CYBIT 110 - Operating System Fundamentals

CYBIT 200 - Networking Essentials

CNT 101 - Cisco Net Assoc (CCNA) Intro

CIS-125 Cloud Essentials Corequisite(s): same as “prerequisite(s)” listed above
Concurrent: same as “prerequisite(s)” listed above
Is course repeatable for credit? No
Variable Hour Exist No
Mode of Delivery Traditional, Hybrid, Online
Is this a Human Relations/Diversity Course? No
Is this an International Course? No
Semesters Offered Fall, Spring, Summer