• Cloud Architecture & Shared Responsibility: Comparing virtual architectures (Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service, Software-as-a-Service), and dividing control boundaries between cloud providers and customers.
• Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM): Restricting cloud resources, writing JSON-formatted policy documents, mapping AWS/Azure IAM structures, and configuring secure cross-account permissions.
• Cloud Networking (VPCs, Security Groups, Transit Gateways): Securing virtual network configurations by defining isolated Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), configuring stateful firewall rules (Security Groups), applying stateless NACLs, and routing traffic globally via Transit Gateways.
• Cloud Storage Security: Protecting cloud data objects, configuring Amazon S3 buckets to prevent unauthorized public exposure, and applying server-side cryptographic encryption.
• Serverless & Microservices Security: Hardening ephemeral computing platforms (such as AWS Lambda and Azure Functions) against injection vulnerabilities and excessive permission assignments.
• FedRAMP & StateRAMP Compliance: Designing cloud instances that meet strict regulatory benchmarks, undergoing continuous monitoring, and verifying independent auditing processes to host state and federal data.