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Certified Cloud Security Engineer (CCSE)
The Certified Cloud Security Engineer (CCSE) is a multi-cloud security certification program crafted by industry experts. It offers a holistic understanding of cloud security and empowers cybersecurity professionals to apply practical skills in their work.
With our unique approach, the CCSE course curriculum is designed to match the latest security tools and techniques for the AWS, Azure, and GCP platforms, combined with a vendor-neutral cloud environment. This makes the program a perfect blend of vendor-neutral training topics with vendor-specific instruction and performance labs, offering cybersecurity professionals a well-rounded and unbiased learning experience.
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The Certified Cloud Security Engineer (CCSE) is a multi-cloud security certification program crafted by industry experts. It offers a holistic understanding of cloud security and empowers cybersecurity professionals to apply practical skills in their work.
With our unique approach, the CCSE course curriculum is designed to match the latest security tools and techniques for the AWS, Azure, and GCP platforms, combined with a vendor-neutral cloud environment. This makes the program a perfect blend of vendor-neutral training topics with vendor-specific instruction and performance labs, offering cybersecurity professionals a well-rounded and unbiased learning experience.
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Top Tools Covered in the Certified Cloud Security Engineer (CCSE)
AWS IAM
AWS VPC
Cloud Front
Amazon Backup
AWS Cloud Trial
Cloud Data Fusion
AWS Security Hub
AWS KMS
Web Application Firewall
Amazon RDS
Amazon Inspector
CloudWatch
Amazon Macie
AWS Trusted Advisor
Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Azure Active Directory
Azure Monitor
Network Watcher
Azure Storage Analytics
Azure Policy
ScoutSuite
Azure Blueprints
Cloud Security Suite
PowerZure
App Engine Firewall
Cloud Identity
Cloud Monitoring
Security Command Center
Web Application and API protection
Google Cloud Armor
Cloud Security Scanner
GCP-IAM-Privilege-Escalation
Secrets Manager
Chronicle Detect
Cloud Key Management
Cloud Key Management
Build Multi-Cloud Readiness with an Industry-Ready Cloud Security Certification
The CCSE offers a holistic understanding of cloud security and empowers cybersecurity professionals to apply practical skills to build, operate, and defend their environments regardless of the selected infrastructure. Take the first step towards becoming a certified cloud security professional today.
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92% of new digital workloads will be deployed on cloud-native platforms by the end of 2025.
87% of enterprises around the globe are using multi-cloud.
66% of the market is dominated by 3 major cloud players: AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
20 Job Roles Mapped to the Certified Cloud Security Certification.
Increase your opportunities with CCSE, a trusted certification in cloud security.
Cloud Security Architect
Cloud Security Manager
Cloud Security Specialist
IT Delivery Manager – Cloud Security Engineer
Cloud Security and Compliance Specialist
Cloud Security Operations Lead
Cloud Security Practice Manager
Cyber Security Analyst – Public Cloud Security Operations
DevSecOps Cloud Security Architect
Cybersecurity Ops Analyst Senior – Cloud Security
Cloud Security Engineer – DevSecOps
Cloud Security Engineer
Cloud Security Consultant
Cyber Cloud Security Manager
Cloud Security SME
API Cloud Security Engineer
Cloud Security Technical Lead
Cloud Security Administrator
Senior Cloud Security Analyst
Cloud Security/Operations Engineer
Cloud Security Course Information
Master Cloud Security for the top 3 cloud platform AWS, Azure & GCP and tackle real multi-cloud security challenges. Our program is trusted by certified cloud security professionals worldwide.
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Certified Cloud Security Engineer (CCSE)
What you’ll learn
Course Outline
Who is it for?
About the Exam
What you’ll learn
Gain expertise through cloud security training focused on identifying vulnerabilities, preventing breaches, and ensuring compliance across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
We’ll equip you to:
Plan, implement, and execute cloud platform security for an organization.
Securely access cloud resources through identity and access management (IAM).
Evaluate and control organizational cloud network architecture by integrating various security controls the service provider offers.
Evaluate cloud storage techniques and threats on data stored in the cloud and understand how to protect cloud data from attacks.
Implement and manage cloud security on various cloud platforms, such as AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Understand the shared responsibility model of the service provider.
Evaluate various cloud security standards, compliance programs, and features offered by AWS, Azure, and GCP, and perform cloud computing security audits.
Implement various threat detection and response services provided by Azure, AWS, and GCP to identify threats to an organization’s cloud services.
Evaluate and mitigate security risks, threats, and vulnerabilities in a cloud platform.
Integrate best practices to secure cloud infrastructure components (network, storage and virtualization, and management).
Secure organizational cloud applications by understanding the secure software development lifecycle of cloud applications and by implementing additional security controls to enhance the security of hosted cloud applications.
Design and implement a GRC framework, a cloud incident response plan, and a business continuity plan for cloud services.
Utilize the security services and tools provided in Azure, AWS, and GCP to secure the organizational cloud environment.
Understand the legal implications associated with cloud computing to protect organizations.
Implement operational controls and standards to build, operate, manage, and maintain the cloud infrastructure.
Understand and implement security for private, multi-tenant, and hybrid cloud environments.
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Course Outline
Module 01: Introduction to Cloud Security
In this module, you will be presented with the core concepts of cloud computing, cloud service models, and cloud-based threats and vulnerabilities. The module highlights service provider components, such as evaluation and the shared security responsibility model, that are essential to configuring a secure cloud environment and protecting organizational resources.
Module 02: Platform and Infrastructure Security in the Cloud
This module explores the key components and technologies that form a cloud architecture and how to secure multi-tenant, virtualized, physical, and logical cloud components. This module
demonstrates configurations
and best practices for securing physical data centers and cloud infrastructures using the tools and techniques provided by Azure, AWS, and GCP.
Module 03: Application Security in the Cloud
The focus of this module is securing cloud applications and explaining secure software development lifecycle changes. It explains the multiple services and tools for application security in Azure, AWS, and GCP.
Module 04: Data Security in the Cloud
This module covers the basics of cloud data storage, its lifecycle, and various controls for protecting data at rest and data in transit in the cloud. It also addresses data storage features and the multiple services and tools used for securing data stored in Azure, AWS, and GCP.
Module 05: Operation Security in the Cloud
This module encompasses the security controls essential to building, implementing, operating, managing, and maintaining physical and logical infrastructures for cloud environments and the required services, features, and tools for operational security provided by AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Module 06: Penetration Testing in the Cloud
This module demonstrates how to implement comprehensive penetration testing to assess the security of an organization’s cloud infrastructure and reviews the required services and tools used to perform penetration testing in AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Module 07: Incident Detection and Response in the Cloud
This module focuses on incident response (IR). It covers the IR lifecycle and the tools and techniques used to identify and respond to incidents; provides training on using SOAR technologies; and explores the IR capabilities provided by AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Module 08: Forensics Investigation in the Cloud
This module covers the forensic investigation process in cloud computing, including various cloud forensic challenges and data collection methods. It also explains how to investigate security incidents using AWS, Azure, and GCP tools.
Module 09: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery in the Cloud
This module highlights the importance of business continuity and disaster recovery planning in IR. It covers the backup and recovery tools, services, and features provided by AWS, Azure, and GCP to monitor business continuity issues.
Module 10: Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance in the Cloud
This module focuses on the various governance frameworks, models, and regulations (ISO/IEC 27017, HIPAA, and PCI DSS) and the design and implementation of governance frameworks in the cloud. It also addresses cloud compliance frameworks and elaborates on the AWS, Azure, and GCP governance modules.
Module 11: Standards, Policies, and Legal Issues in the Cloud
This module discusses standards, policies, and legal issues associated with the cloud. It also covers the features, services, and tools needed for compliance and auditing in AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Who is it for?
Certified Cloud Security Engineer (CCSE) Course
EC-Council’s Certified Cloud Security Engineer (CCSE) course is curated by cloud security professionals in association with renowned subject matter experts to deliver a mix of vendor-neutral and vendor-specific cloud security concepts. The vendor-neutral concepts focus on cloud security practices, technologies, frameworks, and principles. In contrast, the vendor-specific materials deliver the practical skills that are needed to configure specific platforms, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This offers candidates a well-balanced mix of theoretical and practical skills. In addition, advanced topics also cover modules on securing the cloud infrastructure by implementing regulations and standards to maintain security. EC-Council’s cloud security course is mapped to the real-time job roles and responsibilities of cloud security professionals and is ideal for beginners as well as experienced cybersecurity professionals.
Network Security:
Administrator/Engineer/Analyst
Cybersecurity:
Engineer/Analyst
Cloud:
Administrator/Analyst/Engineer
InfoSec professionals
CND Certified professionals
OR any other role that involves network/cloud administration, management, and operations.
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About the Exam
The candidate needs to score 70% to pass the CCSE Exam.
Number of Questions:
125
Exam Prefix:
312-40 (ECC EXAM)
Test Duration:
4 Hours
Test Format:
Multiple Choice
Test Delivery:
EC-Council Exam Portal
Training Duration:
5 Days
Exam Title:
Certified Cloud Security Engineer
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Why Certified Cloud Security Engineer (CCSE) Is The Perfect choice for becoming Certified Cloud Security Professional
Detailed Methodological Approach and Instructor-Led Program​
The CCSE certification program provides hands-on training in creating and implementing security policies to safeguard cloud infrastructure and applications.
Vendor-Neutral and Vendor-Specific Concepts
CCSE by EC-Council is the first certification to offer a blend of vendor-neutral and vendor-specific concepts. It covers features and services of AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Best Practices to Secure Cloud Infrastructure​
The program teaches best practices for securing cloud infrastructure through evaluating cloud storage techniques and threats, configuring cloud services, designing and implementing incident response plans, and auditing cloud computing security.
Soar For Incident Response​
The cloud security course instills an understanding of security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR), which security operations teams collect and analyze to create incident analysis reports and automate incident response in the cloud.
Governance, Risk Management, And Compliance in The Cloud​
The CCSE certification program equips individuals with the skills to design and implement governance frameworks, models, and regulations (ISO/IEC 27017, HIPAA, and PCI DSS).
Forensic Methodologies for Cloud Infrastructure
The program teaches the tools and techniques used to perform forensics investigations on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP. Participants learn forensic methods and how they can be automated to identify and investigate vulnerabilities and threats.
Standards, Policies, And Legal Issues in The Cloud​
The CCSE program teaches individuals how to implement standards through features, services, and tools for regulation and audits of AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Lab-Intensive Cloud Security Program
The CCSE is the only certification course that provides hands-on training in a simulated environment. More than 85 complex labs train learners to tackle real-world, industry-level challenges for professional cloud security roles.
About 3rd Part Subscription
This program will require you to sign up for third party services that may incur fees. Be sure to follow proper guidelines for removing billable services from your account before you leave your lab. Deviating from our specific instructions may result in unwanted fees for services from third-party service providers. Be sure to check with your school, instructor, or employer if education accounts are available. If you sign-up and provide your credit card, you will be responsible for any fees related to services you activate. We strongly advise you not to deviate from our explicit instructions while connected to the platforms unless you are fully aware of what the services are and what the respective third-party charges for their use.
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Different Job Roles
Eligibility for 20+ cybersecurity
job roles
Jobs Available
77,000+ Jobs showcased on LinkedIn alone
Average Salary
The average salary for jobs in the U.S. that require cloud security skills is $180,709*
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Cost-Benefit Analysis of different cloud services provider – a new cloud security skill added to my service offering list for client.
Jimmy Leong
Consultant, Prudential LLC.
I became a subject master in the domain of cloud security all credits to CCSE.
Lei Sun
Senior Manager & Lecturer, EM Polytechnic.
CCSE provides a comprehensive understanding of cloud security covering major cloud platforms like AWS, Azure and GCP.
Hector Rodriguez
Senior Consultant Engineer, Business Technology Group.
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What is the best cloud security certification?
There are a variety of cloud security certifications available, so it’s important to choose the one that will best help you achieve your career goals. EC–Council’s Certified Cloud Security Engineer course is curated by cloud security experts to do just that. The Certified Cloud Security Engineer is the only certification that delivers a mix of vendor-neutral and vendor-specific cloud security concepts, including AWS, Azure, and GCP. The program has over 85 complex labs that give learners experience tackling real-world challenges.
What makes Certified Cloud Security Engineer (CCSE) unique?
AWS, Azure and GCP Cloud Adoption Framework
Azure Governance Recommendations
Checking All Inactive Users in AWS for Access Management
IAM with AWS IAM Access Analyzer
Enabling Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall Protections for VPC
Checking Data Backups and Restore
Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)
Protecting Azure Infrastructure Against Malware
Checking If Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server Supports Multi-AZ Deployments
Conditions in IAM Policies
Managing IAM Permissions
Checking Whether Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is Enabled for Every User
Single Sign-On Using the Identity Center
Managing IAM Roles
Checking Whether WAF Is Installed on Microsoft Azure
DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) Encryption
Implementing Least-Privilege Using AWS IAM Access Analyzer
Checking Whether Azure SQL Databases Are Encrypted
Azure RBAC Predefined Roles
Using SAML Session Tags for Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)
Checking the Data Retention Time in Microsoft Azure
Azure Key Vault Security
Using Conditions in IAM Policies to Limit Access
Checking Whether Network Security Groups Diagnostic Logs Are Turned On
Azure Information Protection
Enabling DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) Encryption at Rest
Checking Access Control of Resources
Using a Data Catalog to Search and Understand Data
Using Azure Resource Manager to Securely Deploy Certificates
Checking Permissions for User Accounts and Roles in Repositories
Cloud Data Fusion
Using Azure Information Protection to Secure Sensitive Data
Checking Misconfigured In-Bound Ports
Signed URLs and Signed Policy Documents
Using Data Catalog to Search and Understand Data
Checking If Data Backups Are Taken Regularly
Condition Attribute on Buckets
Using Cloud Data Fusion to Track Lineage
Checking Google Cloud SQL High Availability Configuration
Amazon Direct Connect Security
Using Signed URLs and Signed Policy Documents to Access Cloud Storage
Checking Database Access
Amazon VPC Network Access Analyzer
Using IAM Condition Attribute on Buckets
Incident Management Using Microsoft Defender for Cloud
AWS Firewall Manager
Integrating Patch Manager with AWS Security Hub
Managing Security Incidents in Microsoft Defender for Cloud
AWS DDoS Mitigation Techniques
Discovering and Prioritizing Security Issues Using Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Configuring Workflow Automation in Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Azure DDoS Mitigation Techniques
Integrating Microsoft Defender for Cloud Alerts into SIEM Solution
Setting up Automated Threat Responses in Microsoft Defender for Cloud
GCP DDoS Mitigation Techniques
Using Azure Active Directory Pass-Through Authentication
Creating an Incident Scoring and Prioritization Procedure
Role of Azure Components and Boundaries in Azure Infrastructure Security
Checking Whether Keys Exist in the Root Account
Forensic Automation in AWS
AWS IAM Identity Center
Checking Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for IAM Users
Automating Forensics Orchestrator for Amazon EC2 instances
Built-in drift detection of the Security Command Center
Checking Whether Root Account Is Used for Everyday Tasks
Improving Regulatory Compliance with Azure Microsoft Defender for Cloud
AWS Incident Response Life Cycle
Checking Whether IAM Users Have More Than One Key
AWS Backup and Restore Services: Centralized Backup
Microsoft’s Enterprise Business Continuity Management (EBCM)
Azure Governance Considerations
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
Business Continuity Compliance: Service-Level Responsibility
Azure Archive Storage
DR Plan Recommendations
AWS Backup and Restore Services: Data Transfer
What cloud security certifications are available in the IT and cybersecurity field?
Several certifications in the market train IT professionals in cloud security fundamentals using a vendor-neutral approach. The top three public cloud providers (
AWS, Azure & GCP
) also provide cloud security certifications. These certifications are primarily vendor specific, meaning that the skills you develop will be limited to the offerings of the cloud provider delivering the course.
EC-Council’s CCSE is the only cloud security certification that will prepare you to tackle real-world, industry-relevant cloud security challenges through training in both vendor-neutral and vendor-specific concepts. The course has a detailed methodological approach and covers how to use digital forensic methodologies to investigate and secure cloud infrastructures.
What salary can I expect after obtaining a cloud security certification?
According to Glassdoor, in the United States, the average salary of a cloud security engineer is USD 119,030 per year, while cloud security architects earn an average of more than USD 143,000 per year. EC-Council’s CCSE certification provides IT and cybersecurity professionals with a holistic view of cloud security that creates a strong foundation for success in a cloud security role, whether your organization uses AWS, Azure, GCP, or another provider.
Why is cloud security important?
With companies accelerating their migration to the cloud to save costs and increase efficiency and scalability, ensuring data security in the cloud is a top priority. Organizations need skilled and reputable cloud security professionals to secure their sensitive business information and intellectual property against increasingly sophisticated cyberthreats.
While third-party cloud service providers like AWS, Azure, and GCP manage the physical infrastructure underpinning the cloud, the responsibility for securing data assets—and, depending on the cloud service model, elements like application code—remains with the customer. A certified cloud security professional can help organizations develop robust security strategies that minimize the risks associated with cloud migration.
What do cloud security engineers do?
Cloud security engineers develop and implement methods to secure and monitor cloud environments. They evaluate and respond to cyberthreats, automate and configure security controls, support incident handling and response, and perform cloud security audits.
Cloud security engineers are often also responsible for creating governance, risk, and compliance frameworks as well as disaster recovery and business continuity plans for cloud security incidents. In line with this, they may be tasked with providing feedback on their organization’s current security posture; evaluating the security standards and features of offerings like AWS Cloud, Azure, and GCP; and ensuring that their company complies with applicable laws and regulations for cloud computing and storage.
How can I become a cloud security engineer?
Cloud security training like that offered in the Certified Cloud Security Engineer program will equip you with the essential skills and knowledge you need to defend cloud environments against potential cyberattacks.
If you’re a beginner, consider starting with a baseline certification like EC-Council’s Certified Security Specialist (ECSS), followed by the Network Defense Essentials (NDE) course in the Essentials Series, and finally, the CCSE. If you already have experience in information security, the CCSE program is an excellent way to expand your skill set and knowledge base by mastering cloud security.
I’m interested in a career in cloud security. Are cloud security certifications necessary?
Cloud security certifications are highly recommended when applying for a senior-level cloud security position. They significantly boost your resume and earning potential. Certifications validate your knowledge and skills in securing cloud environments, making you a more attractive candidate to employers.
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