Certified: The GIAC GCLD Audio Course

Welcome to this cloud security course on protecting real environments the way real attackers test them.

This course is built for practitioners who need a clear, defensible way to secure cloud workloads, data, and operations without drowning in noise or vague advice. We’ll move from prevention into validation, detection, and response, so you can shut down the easy wins attackers love: exposed management planes, overly broad IAM roles, weak network boundaries, public storage mistakes, and silent data leakage.

You’ll learn how to choose signals that reveal attacker movement, correlate identity abuse across logins, tokens, and privilege changes, and tune monitoring so high-confidence alerts rise to the top. We’ll lock down compute and containers with hardened images, immutable patterns, runtime controls, and strict isolation. Then we’ll shift into data protection: encryption, key management, safe sharing defaults, lifecycle controls, and consistent sensitive data discovery across storage, databases, logs, and metadata.

You’ll also get practical governance: risk decisions leaders can defend, audit evidence that’s repeatable, and assessment routines that surface misconfigurations before attackers do.

If this sounds like what you need, subscribe to the podcast for ongoing cloud security episodes and updates. And if you prefer a written reference you can highlight and revisit, check out the companion books that match this course and reinforce the same practical approach.