Learning Cloud Security

Chapter 1. About the Certified Cloud Security Practitioner

Topics covered in this chapter include:

• Why the CCSP is necessary

• About the ISC2

• CCSP domains

• About the exam

While news has become very personalized in many ways, and each person’s news feeds and sources will be populated in ways that are relevant to what they have shown an interest in, it is true that in general, news about one sort of cyberattack or another shows up very regularly. This is because technology has made criminal activities not only significantly easier, but also potentially more lucrative. You can get more results with less because the computer, and your victims, are doing a lot of the work for you. This significantly increases the need for security-focused professionals to protect information resources. Presumably, this is a big part of why you have grabbed this book. You would like to be able to declare that you know what you are talking about with respect to cloud security, and the material covered in the Certified Cloud Security Practitioner (CCSP) exam is one way to do that.

This chapter includes a short history lesson to better put cloud computing into context of decades of changes and evolutions. This helps you understand the return to outsourcing information technology to large providers. It also covers the exam, including the organization responsible for maintaining the exam. You will get a better understanding of what the exam process is before you get the test scheduled and sit down ...