Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Cloud Security Practitioner

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Cyber Security

About Programme

Build practical expertise in multi cloud security, incident response, penetration testing and governance across AWS, Azure and GCP

Hands on cloud security training with live weekday sessions led by industry practitioners.
Learn how to secure cloud platforms, applications, data and infrastructure across AWS, Azure and GCP.
Gain practical exposure to cloud incident response, penetration testing and governance frameworks.
Batch-wise Course Start Dates: Batch 1: 20th July 2026 | Batch 2: 7th September 2026 | Batch 3: 5th October 2026 | Batch 4: 16th November 2026

What you'll learn

Understand cloud security fundamentals, threats and shared responsibility models.
Secure cloud infrastructure, applications and data across AWS, Azure and GCP.
Perform cloud penetration testing, incident detection and forensic investigation.
Apply disaster recovery, governance, risk management and compliance practices in cloud environments.

Skills you'll gain

Multi Cloud Security FundamentalsIAM, Network and Application Security on CloudCloud Incident Detection and ResponseCloud Penetration Testing on AWS, Azure and GCPCloud ForensicsDisaster Recovery and Cloud GRC

Programme Content

Introduction to Cloud Security

  • Cloud computing fundamentals
  • Cloud security objectives and issues
  • Cloud security insights
  • Security in Amazon cloud (AWS)
  • Security in Azure cloud
  • Security in Google cloud

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    Platform and Infrastructure Security in Cloud

  • Understand cloud platform and infrastructure
  • Understand the risks and threats associated with cloud platform and infrastructure
  • Learn how to secure key components of cloud platform and infrastructure
  • Learn how to design a secure data center in cloud
  • Understand cloud platform and infrastructure security in AWS
  • Learn how to implement cloud platform and infrastructure security in AWS
  • Understand cloud platform and infrastructure security in GCP

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    Application Security in Cloud

  • Understand cloud application models and cloud application security
  • Understand the various phases of SSDLC for designing secure cloud applications
  • Usage of IAM for managing user roles and permissions to cloud applications
  • Secure design of cloud applications
  • Implementation of security devices for enhancing cloud application security
  • Various application security features in AWS, Azure and GCP along with their implementation

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    Data Security in Cloud

  • Understanding data security in cloud
  • Understanding cloud data storage fundamentals
  • Understand cloud storage architecture and cloud data life cycle
  • Evaluate risks, attacks and issues in cloud data storage
  • Discuss information rights management systems
  • Discuss data retention and archiving strategies

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    Security Operations in Cloud

  • Understand elements in cloud data center physical and logical operations
  • Learn security operations to build cloud infrastructure
  • Learn how to perform security operations for cloud infrastructure
  • Learn security operations to manage cloud infrastructure

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    Penetration Testing in Cloud

  • Understand the scope of cloud penetration testing
  • Learn generic penetration testing steps in cloud
  • Learn AWS specific penetration testing steps
  • Learn Azure specific penetration testing steps
  • Learn GCP specific penetration testing steps

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    Incident Detection and Response in Cloud

  • Understand cloud incident response
  • Understand the cloud incident response lifecycle
  • Discuss security incident response in AWS
  • AWS investigation and detection tools
  • Discuss security incident response in Microsoft Azure Cloud
  • Discuss security incident response in Google Cloud Platform

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    Forensic Investigation in Cloud

  • Understand cloud forensics
  • Determine how to investigate security incidents in AWS
  • Determine how to investigate security incidents in Azure
  • Determine how to investigate security incidents in GCP

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    Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery in Cloud

  • Introduction to cloud disaster recovery and business continuity
  • Learn architecting for recovery and resilience in AWS
  • Implement recovery and resilience in AWS
  • Understand business continuity and disaster recovery in Microsoft Azure
  • Understand disaster recovery configuration in Azure

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    Governance, Risk Management and Compliance in Cloud

  • Understand cloud compliance
  • Implementation of GRC in the cloud
  • GRC in AWS
  • GRC in Azure
  • GRC in Google

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    Standards, Policies and Legal Issues in Cloud

  • Understand the laws impacting cloud computing
  • Learn the cloud computing standards
  • Describe the legal frameworks for data protection and privacy
  • Understand standards, policies and auditing in AWS
  • Understand standards, policies and auditing in Azure
  • Understand standards, policies and auditing in GCP

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