Hello.
My name is Lyron Andrews.
Thank you for joining me in the course, Platform and
Infrastructure Security for the CCSP.
I have worked as an official author for the (ISC)² CISSP and CCSP, and have
been a trainer for the CISSP, CCSP, and SSCP globally.
Let's get started with the Primary Cloud Platform and Infrastructure Services.
What we'll do first is consider the primary services of cloud
computing and their corresponding uses.
Then what we'll do is take a look at an analysis of major
risks associated with consuming services at the level of
the platform and infrastructure.
Finally,
we'll consider some mitigation strategies to help reduce those
risks to cloud computing. For the CCSP certification exam, the
Cloud Platform and Infrastructure Security domain accounts for 17%
of the weight of the total exam.
Let's get into those cloud service descriptions. You'll recall earlier if
you took the previous courses, that NIST has a solid definition of cloud
computing in this special publication 800‑145.
It's five characteristics.
I enjoy taking those five characteristics and putting them into an acronym
that I call BRROM, standing for broad network access,
resource pooling, rapid elasticity, on demand, and
measured. If you were to consider for a moment,
just the resource pooling descriptor, there you will find the
services listed directly from NIST as follows.
What we're going to do in this course is look at those primary cloud
services including network, compute, storage, virtualization, and the
management plane. Where we are going to get started is a description of
virtualization and how that helps to serve up the infrastructure and
platform capabilities in the cloud. Join me over in the next clip as we
begin this.