From the course: Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK) Cert Prep

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Infrastructure and networking overview

Infrastructure and networking overview

- [Instructor] The infrastructure and networking domain account for six questions on the CCSK exam. Infrastructure, as in infrastructure as a service in the cloud, is highly contextual in meaning. From a cloud service customer's view, it means that you have access to cloud resources in their raw and broadly configurable state, encompassing compute, storage, and networking. While I stated much of the security responsibility rests with the cloud service customer in IAAS consumption, there are also unseen security responsibilities that lie with the CSP. For instance, the physical facilities or data centers that house the hardware providing services are the CSP's responsibility to control, access, and provide surveillance to maintain environmental integrity. To enhance resilience, CSPs create highly available cloud environments. This is achieved through fully redundant data centers that are situated within or across multiple facilities. One or more data centers are grouped into an…

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