: Implementing micro-segmentation using hub-and-spoke models and centralized traffic inspection firewalls to secure north-south and east-west traffic.
: Teaches how to centralize and aggregate distributed logs to allow security operations centers to hunt for threats efficiently. sans sec 549 2021
Today, SEC549 is a cornerstone of the SANS cloud curriculum, often paired with the GIAC Cloud Security Architecture (GCSA) “In the cloud, you can’t build a wall
: Designing conditional access policies and guardrails for resource access, ensuring that trust is continuously verified across workforce, customer, and workload identities. conditional access policies
“In the cloud, you can’t build a wall. You have to build a sensor, a policy, and a self-destruct sequence.” – Anonymous SEC 549 alumnus, 2021.
Following the code, the course moved to the pipeline itself—Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, and Azure DevOps.
Zero-trust architecture, conditional access policies, and cross-cloud authentication. Network Perimeters
