HOW TO BECOME A CLOUD SECURITY ENGINEER in 2020 | Including Top Certifications

HOW TO BECOME A CLOUD SECURITY ENGINEER in 2020 | Including Top Certifications

In this episode of the Virtual Coffee with Ashish edition, we spoke with Christopher Hughes, CISSP, Cloud Security Engineer.

Chris & Ashish spoke about

  • What was Chris’s path into CyberSecurity & Cloud Security?
  • What is a Cloud Security Engineer?
  • What does Cloud Security mean in AWS or Azure or GCP context?
  • For any Students/SysAdmins/developers listening, who want to get into the field (certification etc)
  • Have doing the certifications been helpful?.
  • Any recommendations for those who want to pass the AWS Security Speciality Exam?
  • What are some of the beginner or advanced security implementations in AWS that you can share for the audience to learn from?
  • How does one maintain the security review cycle of the cloud service?
  • Examples of Cloud Security scenarios that you get involved with through Cloud Security Alliance work
  • Course for AWS Security Speciality Exam, recommendation by Chris Hughes - https://www.udemy.com/course/aws-certified-security-specialty/

ShowNotes and Episode Transcript on www.cloudsecuritypodcast.tv

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