This course teaches you how to secure cloud environments the way real incidents unfold: misconfigurations, over-permissioned identities, weak network boundaries, and data exposure paths that are easy to miss until it’s too late. You’ll build a practical, defensible security posture across compute, containers, storage, and managed services by using hardened baselines, policy enforcement, continuous validation, and clear ownership. Along the way, you’ll learn how to reduce attack surface with immutable deployment patterns, least privilege workload identities, safe sharing defaults, and recovery-focused controls like versioning and lifecycle rules.
You’ll also strengthen detection and response by choosing high-signal monitoring that reveals attacker movement, correlating identity abuse across logins, tokens, and privilege changes, and tuning alerts so responders focus on what actually matters. The course includes actionable playbooks for investigating cloud alerts, preventing data leakage with blocking controls and step-up authentication for risky actions, and preparing audit-ready evidence that aligns logs, configurations, access reviews, and exceptions. The result is a cloud security approach that is operational, repeatable, and built for teams who need measurable risk reduction—not just best-practice slogans.
Listen to the Trailer
First Episodes
Episode 1 — Decode the GCLD exam format, rules, scoring, and timing calmly
This episode breaks down what to expect on the GCLD exam so you can spend your effort on mastery instead of guesswork. You’ll clarify how question styles, timing press...
Episode 2 — Build a spoken study plan that sticks for busy cloud defenders
This episode focuses on turning exam objectives into a realistic plan you can execute alongside a full workload. You’ll learn how to convert broad domains into weekly ...
Episode 3 — Understand shared responsibility clearly across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS realities
This episode explains shared responsibility in a way that supports exam questions and real incident accountability. You’ll define what the provider secures versus what...
Episode 4 — Apply threat-informed defense by matching controls to real cloud adversaries
This episode teaches how to prioritize defenses based on how cloud attackers actually operate, which is central to designing effective control stacks and answering sce...
Episode 5 — Identify high-probability cloud attacker goals, incentives, and target choices
This episode breaks down why cloud environments are targeted and what attackers most often try to achieve once they enter. You’ll map common goals—data theft, service ...