Running cloud security posture for Northlink, a multi-account SaaS company, on a posture board of eight cloud planes, each showing the misconfiguration found and the secure default now in place: identity, network, data, compute, guardrails, secrets, visibility and posture operations — from long-lived access keys, admin ports open to the internet, a public customer-exports bucket, IMDSv1, a hardcoded AWS key and an unlogged account, to short-lived roles, closed ports, private encrypted storage, IMDSv2, dynamic one-hour credentials, logging everywhere and 22 classes of misconfiguration blocked by policy. On the right, 9,000 findings are ranked by exposure so a public sensitive bucket, an externally assumable admin role and a world-open production database come first; internet-facing high-risk findings fall from 61 to 12, fix time from 9.4 to 2.6 days, while the total of open findings is reported honestly and not headlined.

CY-MID-013Mid Level · Cloud Security Management

Cloud Security Posture Management — The Posture Board

A hands-on mid-level course that operates the security posture of a multi-account cloud estate. Work the posture board — Identity, Network, Data, Compute, Guardrails, Secrets, Visibility, and Posture Ops — finding the misconfigurations behind most cloud breaches and fixing them with secure defaults and preventive guardrails, using real commands across AWS and Azure CLI, Terraform, and OPA/Rego policy. Four hands-on activities in every lesson.

15 hours8 chapters32 lessons225 activities8 labs

What you'll learn

Make cloud identity least-privilege, short-lived, and free of escalation paths.
Keep the network private by default, protect data, and harden compute.
Prevent misconfigurations with guardrails, policy-as-code, and a secure landing zone.
Manage secrets, guarantee visibility, and run posture as a risk-prioritized program.

Price:৳8,000