Learning Activities
The methods of instruction for this course will include lectures, seminars, demonstrations, and hands-on assignments/projects.
Means of Assessment
Assessment will be in accordance with the Douglas College Evaluation Policy.
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Assignments/labs
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15-25%
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Quizzes*
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10-25%
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Midterm Examination*
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25-35%
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Final Examination*
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25-40%
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Total
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100%
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* Practical hands-on computer exam
In order to pass the course, students must, in addition to receiving an overall course grade of 50%, also achieve a grade of at least 50% on the combined weighted examination components (including quizzes, tests, exams).
Students may conduct research as part of their coursework in this class. Instructors for the course are responsible for ensuring that student research projects comply with College policies on ethical conduct for research involving humans, which can require obtaining Informed Consent from participants and getting the approval of the Douglas College Research Ethics Board prior to conducting the research.
Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course, the successful student will be able to:
- Apply general cybersecurity principles in the context of cloud computing
- Explain how the responsibilities for security are shared between cloud service providers and users
- Evaluate the appropriateness of data protection mechanism in cloud computing
- Compare assets protection mechanisms in cloud computing to similar mechanisms in traditional IT models
- Create appropriate security measures such as encryption, user access control and network security settings in a commercial cloud platform (e.g. Azure, AWS or Google Cloud)
- Explain the importance of vulnerability management, and be able to select appropriate strategies to identify and remove vulnerabilities
- Create appropriate monitoring strategies to detect security incidents in the cloud
- Apply appropriate strategies to respond to security incidents in the cloud, and to recover from them
- Explain the importance of regulatory compliance, and the role that cloud audits play in this context
- Judge the situational appropriateness of cloud security measures, and compare the resulting level of security to that of more traditional IT deployments
Textbook Materials
Practical Cloud Security – A Guide for Secure Design and Deployment by Chris Dotson, O’Reilly, latest edition
and/or
other textbook approved by department.