The CCSK v5 has been revised to ensure that everyone, from senior leaders to technical practitioners, product managers, product marketers, and compliance managers can all obtain the vendor-neutral training and certification needed to demonstrate the latest cloud security knowledge, adding significant value to their companies and advancing their careers.

• Describe and define cloud computing concepts, establish baseline terminology, and detail overall controls, deployment, and architectural models.  
• Focus on cloud governance, emphasizing security’s role and how enterprise governance aligns information and technology capabilities with business objectives.  
• Address cloud security, risk, audit, and compliance, including evaluating cloud service providers and establishing cloud risk registries.  
• Focus on managing your entire cloud footprint, including securing and validating service provider deployments.  
• Focus on IAM between an organization and cloud providers or between cloud providers and services.  
• Present unique security monitoring challenges and solutions for cloud environments, emphasizing cloud telemetry, management plane logs, service and resource logs, and the integration of advanced monitoring tools.  
• Center on managing the overall infrastructure footprint and network security, including the CSP’s infrastructure security responsibilities.  
• Focus on the related set of software and data units deployable on some type of infrastructure or platform.  
• Address the complexities of data security in the cloud, covering essential strategies, tools, and practices for protecting data in transit and at rest.  
• Explore the unique challenges and opportunities presented by application security in the cloud environment, from the initial design phase to ongoing maintenance.  
• Focus on identifying and explaining best practices for cloud incident response and resilience that security professionals may reference when developing their own incident plans and processes.  
• Introduce foundational concepts and focus on developing a strategic cybersecurity approach to Zero Trust and Artificial Intelligence.