Information Technology and Communications

Designing Security Strategies for Corporate Virtual Environments

Learn to design, measure and defend your organisation's approach to virtual environment security.

  • 5training days
  • 4modules
  • 8sessions
  • 32topics
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Designing Security Strategies for Corporate Virtual Environments
5days

About the programme

Course Overview

Availability targets for virtual environment security are commercial commitments, whatever the engineering team calls them. The documentation for the practice within technology and systems delivery is accurate only until the next release. The programme uses small-group work so that each participant's treatment of this part of technology and systems delivery is examined, not just described. It establishes a shared vocabulary for virtual environment security so that teams can disagree productively about it. The course leaves participants able to diagnose weaknesses in the technology and systems delivery capability before they become incidents. Improvement in this strand of technology and systems delivery stalls when it depends on one capable individual rather than a defined method. Post-incident reviews keep identifying weaknesses in virtual environment security that were visible long before the incident. The programme works equally well for those formalising the technology and systems delivery discipline for the first time and those improving an existing approach. The programme ends where implementation begins, with the technology and systems delivery capability broken into steps someone can start on Monday.

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • Adapt recognised practice on virtual environment security to local constraints without hollowing it out.

  • Establish monitoring and alerting on virtual environment security that reflects user experience.

  • Build a concise technical standard for virtual environment security that colleagues can follow without further explanation.

  • Control technical debt in virtual environment security deliberately rather than by neglect.

  • Assess the current state of virtual environment security against a structured set of criteria rather than impressions.

  • Build incident response for virtual environment security with defined severity and escalation.

  • Design the architecture of virtual environment security around its failure modes, not only its happy path.

Who Should Attend

  • Software engineers and technical leads building virtual environment security.

  • Quality and test engineers verifying virtual environment security.

  • Infrastructure and platform engineers operating virtual environment security.

  • Internal auditors reviewing how virtual environment security is designed and operated.

  • Managers with direct responsibility for virtual environment security within the technical platform.

  • Solution architects designing virtual environment security.

Course Modules

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01

Virtual environment security: architecture and designing for failure

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Setting availability and recovery targets for virtual environment security honestly

  • Set out the decisions in virtual environment security that require sign-off and by whom.
  • Confirm that contractual obligations around virtual environment security are understood.
  • Review access rights on virtual environment security and remove what is no longer needed.
  • Identify where judgement in virtual environment security is legitimate and where it is not.

Session 2The decisions in virtual environment security that cannot be delegated

  • Assess the exit route from any cloud or vendor dependency in virtual environment security.
  • Arrange the handover of virtual environment security so capability survives staff changes.
  • Rank the weaknesses in virtual environment security by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
  • Apply change control to virtual environment security including emergency changes.
02

Virtual environment security: documentation, support and handover

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Building lasting competence in virtual environment security

  • Test the failover for virtual environment security rather than assuming it works.
  • Measure current load on virtual environment security and project it forward twelve months.
  • Remove steps in virtual environment security that add effort without adding assurance.
  • Confirm the support model and escalation path for virtual environment security.

Session 2The cost of virtual environment security and how to present it

  • Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for virtual environment security.
  • Confirm every release of virtual environment security can be rolled back within a defined time.
  • Define incident severity levels for virtual environment security and the response each triggers.
  • Review logging on virtual environment security for coverage and retention.
03

Virtual environment security: incident response and severity

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Least privilege in virtual environment security without blocking the work

  • Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in virtual environment security.
  • State the availability and recovery objectives for virtual environment security as numbers.
  • Confirm data retention and deletion rules applied within virtual environment security.
  • Set out how exceptions to virtual environment security are requested and approved.

Session 2Sizing capacity for virtual environment security on measured growth

  • Record the rationale for each significant choice made about virtual environment security.
  • Identify single points of dependency in virtual environment security and reduce them.
  • Confirm that those complying with virtual environment security understand why it exists.
  • Inventory third-party dependencies inside virtual environment security and their update status.
04

Virtual environment security: capacity, performance and load

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Proving the backup of virtual environment security by restoring it

  • Benchmark the organisation's virtual environment security against comparable operations.
  • Identify the single points of failure in virtual environment security.
  • Document the runbook for virtual environment security to the level a new engineer could use.
  • Restore a backup of virtual environment security in a test environment and time it.

Session 2Retiring the legacy part of virtual environment security

  • Distinguish symptoms from causes when virtual environment security underperforms.
  • Run a load test on virtual environment security at expected peak plus a margin.
  • Collect evidence on the present handling of virtual environment security before proposing changes.
  • Prepare the summary of virtual environment security that senior management will read.

Choose the package that suits you

Silver Package

At least 3 people

USD1,250
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

Gold Package

At least 3 people

USD1,850
  • 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

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