Cloud and Automation for CompTIA CySA+
by Dale Meredith
This course will teach you the skills you need as a cybersecurity analyst to identify the threats and vulnerabilities associated with operating in the cloud.
What you'll learn
Operating with the cloud has created new vectors of attacks for hackers to leverage against you. In this course, Cloud and Automation for CompTIA CySA+, you’ll learn to identify the threats and vulnerabilities associated with operating in the cloud, and using automation to help you against attackers. First, you’ll explore the benefits of using automation within your environment to help better control your security profile. Next, you’ll discover which aspects of connecting to the cloud you should be looking out for that could compromise your infrastructure. Finally, you’ll learn how different techniques can be used to protect your resources and the connectivity to your cloud service provider. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of a cybersecurity analyst needed to identify the threats and vulnerabilities associated with operating in the cloud, and using automation to help you in your battle against attackers.
About the author
Dale Meredith has been a Certified Ethical Hacker/Instructor EC-Council for the past 15 years, and Microsoft Certified Trainer for over 20 years. Dale also has an additional 7 years of senior IT management experience and worked as a CTO for a popular ISP provider. Dale's expertise is in explaining difficult concepts and ensuring his students have an actionable knowledge of the course material. Straddling the line of fun and function, Dale's instruction is memorable and entertaining. Dale's knowl... moreedge and understanding of current trends in technology and applications have led to many opportunities, such as: training various Inc 500 companies, universities, and Divisions of the Department of Homeland Security for the United States government.
Along with authoring for Pluralsight, consulting, and IT classroom training, you can catch Dale on stage speaking at IT conferences, helping IT teams keep their companies safe, relevant, and "breach" aware. Outside of the professional sphere, Dale spends quite a bit of his time giving back by speaking at adult and youth non-profit community gatherings and posting on his 'Dale Dumbs IT Down' social media sites. Dale uses these speaking engagements and social media sites to 'Dumb Down IT' concepts with the intent to help everyone be safe and smart with their technology and personal devices.
Dale also specializes in Active Directory, Exchange Server, IIS, PowerShell, SharePoint, System Center/Desktop Deployment, and Private Cloud