This course introduces basic concepts of the information security CIA triad and focuses on emerging technologies and their connection with cyber security on-premises and in Cloud. The different facets of information security are explained along with the attack vectors for information security. This course covers the skills required to develop a security infrastructure on-premises and in Cloud, recognize threats and vulnerabilities to networks, and mitigate security threats, This course emphasizes core security technologies, the installation, troubleshooting and monitoring of network security devices to maintain integrity, confidentiality and availability of data.

Tools: CISCO Packet Tracer, CISCO Firepower, Wireshark, AWS, Microsoft Azure

This course provides foundational knowledge and skills for Windows/Linux servers. After completing this course, the participants will have a good understanding of operating systems and their importance in the cybersecurity space. They will learn relevant security configurations, file systems, user management and services, and ways to secure the services on promises and in Cloud.

Tools: CentOS Linux, Windows Server 2012, AWS, Microsoft Azure

This course provides knowledge and skills on cloud computing concepts, types of cloud, service models, architecture and design, and security concepts relevant to cloud computing. At the end of the course, the learners will have a deep understanding of the design principles of secure cloud computing and will be able to evaluate cloud service providers.

Tools: AWS, Microsoft Azure

This module covers cloud computing, types of cloud services, core architectural components, compute and networking services, cloud storage services, cloud identity, access, and security, cost management in the cloud, features and tools in the cloud for governance and compliance, features and tools for managing and deploying cloud resources, monitoring tools in cloud.

Certification Exam: Fundamentals of Cloud – AZ900

Tools: Microsoft Azure

This course builds your skills in implementing, managing and monitoring a Microsoft Azure environment. The focus is to learn cloud services such as computing, storage, networking and governance. Various concepts and labs to implement solutions in different scenarios in Azure Cloud will be discussed. At the end of the module, you will be able to manage Azure identities and governance, implement and manage storage, deploy and manage Azure compute resources, configure and manage virtual networking, and monitor and back up Azure resources. This module will culminate in a global certification exam – AZ104.

Tools: Azure Portal, Visual Studio Code

The course covers IT operations, including networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data platforms, and governance. They can manage Azure administration, Azure development, and DevOps processes. This course leads to certification AZ305 covering design identity, governance, and monitoring solutions, design data storage solutions, design business continuity solutions, Design infrastructure solutions

Certification Exam: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions – AZ305

Tools: MS Azure Services

The course covers managing Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) identities, managing secure access by using Azure AD, managing the application process, managing access control, implementing network security, configuring advanced security for computing, managing security operations, configuring centralized policy management, managing threat protection, configure and manage security monitoring solutions, configure security for storage and data, and configure and manage Azure Key Vault.

Certification Exam: Security Engineer- AZ500

Tools: MS Azure Services

The course will help the learners to implement metrics, alarms, and filters by using AWS monitoring and logging services, remediate issues based on monitoring and availability metrics, implement scalability and elasticity, implement high availability and resilient environments, implement backup and restore strategies, provision and maintain cloud resources, automate manual or repeatable processes, implement and manage security and compliance policies, implement data and infrastructure protection strategies, implement networking features and connectivity, configure domains, DNS services, and content delivery, troubleshoot network connectivity issues, implement cost and performance optimization strategies.

Certification Exam: AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate

Tools: AWS

The course will help the learners design secure architectures, resilient architectures, high-performing architectures, and cost-optimized architectures.

Certification Exam: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Tools: AWS

This course covers designing and implementing strategies for collaboration, code, infrastructure, source control, security, compliance, continuous integration, testing, delivery, monitoring, and feedback.

Tools: AWS/Azure

This course will cover IAM and its need to implement and maintain controls, creation of Groups, Users & Roles, set up IAM Policies, how to create, modify and apply them within your AWS environment, Multi-Factor Authentication and the best practices, Identity Federation on how external identities (users who do not have IAM user accounts) can access the resources through the use of identity providers, IAM Features and IAM Account settings, the credential report and also how IAM integrates with Key Management Services.

Tools: AWS/Azure

This course is to understand the Governance, Risk and Compliance aspects of Cloud Services. The concepts of this course include cloud computing benefits and risks, risk analysis and design of controls, Identifying risks and value, governance, and compliance, control frameworks and demonstrating compliance, managing compliance and maturity, and managing and planning business continuity in a multi-cloud environment.

Tools: AWS, MS Azure Services

This course covers strategies for safeguarding data, classifying data, ensuring privacy, assuring compliance with regulatory agencies, and working with authorities during legal investigations. The participants will be able to evaluate and implement the security controls necessary to ensure confidentiality, integrity and availability in cloud computing, strategies for protecting data at rest and data in motion, the role of encryption in protecting data and specific strategies for key management.

The second-year program will culminate in designing, preparing and presenting/publishing a real-time capstone project on a live business challenge. Designing, implementing, deploying and demonstrating an end-to-end cloud solution must be built. The program office will support with mentoring and report writing. The evaluation is based on viva-voce by an industry panel of experts.

Tools: Full Stack

This module credits can be earned by writing and publishing a research paper on the capstone project done in the earlier module. The participant needs to publish or present the paper in a peer-reviewed journal or reputed international conference. The participants will learn skills in research paper writing and publishing/presenting. Note: Second-year capstone project needs to be mandatorily published in a peer-reviewed journal or presented at an international conference.