Understanding and Auditing Cloud Technologies
This 2‑day course gives auditors a practical, working understanding of the core cloud technologies that power today’s enterprise environments. Through immersive, hands‑on labs, participants work directly with the same platforms and tools their auditees use every day—deepening technical comprehension and enabling auditors to ask sharper, more informed questions during engagements. After building a strong foundation in virtual machines, containers, orchestration, and APIs, the course transitions into cloud‑specific audit procedures, ensuring students leave with the confidence and capability to evaluate cloud technologies effectively and perform thorough, defensible audits.
CPE:
14
Program Level:
Intermediate
Delivery Method:
Live
Cost :
$675 for this live 2-day course
Course Contents/Objectives
A. Orchestration Concepts
• Orchestration Background
• Container Orchestration to manage scale and complexity
• Cloud Orchestration
• Infrastructure Orchestration
• Infrastructure as Code
• Terraform
• Kubernetes
• Auto-placement and clustering
• Horizontal pod autoscaling
• Storage provisioning and security
• Logging, monitoring, alerting
B. Hands-on with Orchestration
C. How to audit Orchestration
A. API an Microservices Concepts
• API and Microservices Background
• Types of APIs
• API Landscape
• API specifications
• Microservices Communication
• Microservices Deployment & Scaling
• Benefits of APIs and Microservices
• Challenges with APIs and Microservices
• Best practices for Design
B. Hands-on with APIs and Microservices
C. How to audit APIs and Microservices
Laptop Required
Students are required to have a laptop in order to complete the hands-on exercises. The laptop should meet the following specifications for the student to get the most from the exercises:
• 16 GB RAM or higher
• 25 GB available hard drive space
• Windows 11 professional or later
• Administrator privileges including the capability to install and run tools, as well as disable anti-virus
• VMWare Player/Workstation should be installed
Target Audience
• Internal Auditors
• IT Specialist Auditors
• IT Auditors
• IT Audit Managers
• Information System Auditors
• Information Technology Auditors
• Information Security Officers
Prerequisites
Participants should be familiar with Internet technologies and commonly used Internet security controls. No other advance preparation is required.
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