New on Cloud Academy: 10 Cybersecurity Labs, Amazon Kinesis, Six Programming Labs, and More

By now, you probably know that Cloud Academy is constantly publishing new training content every month with Learning Paths, Courses, Quizzes, Exams, and Hands-on Labs. We notify our subscribers in real time when there are relevant additions and updates to the training library, and you can keep track of what’s coming next with our roadmap. At any time, you can go find all of our brand new releases by going to our Training Library and finding the section titled “New this month in our library.”

Promising and delivering organizational and technical change is difficult — especially at large enterprise organizations. That’s why we have a team of experts that continue to work energetically to launch brand new training assets and platform features to make that difficult work a bit easier for you and your team. In June, Cloud Academy made huge advances in our Training Library. Let’s take a closer look.

Drumroll please…

We still don’t know how they did it, but our Content Team released 10 brand new Cybersecurity Hands-on Labs this month! Not only that, but our expert trainers also created new Learning Paths, Courses, and lots of other Hands-on Labs.

Cybersecurity Labs NEW LAB SERIES

These Cybersecurity Labs cover several security topics from a cloud-agnostic perspective. These labs were designed for the CREST Practitioner Security Analyst (CPSA) certification examination, but they are very valuable to security practitioners in general.

Get started with one of our brand new Cybersecurity Labs, including:

1. Network Mapping and Target Identification
2. Interpreting Security Tool Output
3. Security Audit Techniques
4. Detecting Windows Vulnerabilities
5. Cracking Passwords in Linux
6. Exploiting Vulnerable Network File System (NFS) Shares
7. Exploiting Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Services
8. Execute a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Attack
9. Execute a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Attack
10. Perform a SQL Injection (SQLi) Attack

More New Hands-on Labs

You thought we’d settle for “just” ten new Labs in our Cybersecurity Lab series this month? Think again. We released an additional seven brand new Labs you should know about in programming and machine learning.

Programming

• Accessing Resources using Java Annotations, CDI, JDBC, and JPA
• Coding with Java Modules
• Coding with Java Streams
• Coding with Java Collections
• Coding with Generics and Lambdas
• Coding with Polymorphism

Machine Learning

• Forecast Flight Delays with Amazon SageMaker

Notable Content Updates

Fundamentals of AWS

The velocity and variety of innovation at AWS is truly amazing. Even our Fundamentals of AWS course needs to be updated regularly. The following content has been added:

• AWS Global Infrastructure: Availability Zones, Regions, Edge Locations, Regional Edge Caches
• AWS Shared Responsibility Model
• Working with AWS Networking and Amazon VPC
• AWS: Overview of Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Platform Updates

If the speed of innovation at a large company like AWS is impressive, the per employee rate of innovation at Cloud Academy really blows our hair back. Here are a couple June highlights from our Product Development team.

Exam Explanations 

Cloud Academy Exams are a wildly popular mechanism to measure your knowledge. But Exams are also a popular mechanism to learn and retain knowledge. Now, immediately after each exam, you’ll see a list of your correct and incorrect answers with detailed explanations for each question. Not only that, but you’ll also see a link to the official vendor documentation to further deepen your knowledge on the topic.

Exam Explanations empower you to:

• See what was right and wrong
• Understand a given topic more easily
• Improve your learning experience

Enterprise Integrations and API Control Center

Enterprise users can use our new API Control Center to connect directly to the Cloud Academy platform. This will simplify sign on, enhance training, and improve security. Go to Dashboard > Settings & Integrations. You can find the new Integrations and API tabs at the top.
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Here are some reasons that you’ll want to use the new feature:

• Improve security
• Self-generate secure API keys
• Overcome barriers with sign-on issues or password resets
• Help your team complete more training
• Enhance user experience by connecting directly to Cloud Academy services

Stay Updated

As always, we use Cloud Academy Blog to keep you up-to-date on the latest technology and best practices. All of our new blogs, reports, and updates go directly to our Cloud Academy social media accounts. For the latest updates, follow and like us on the following social media platforms:

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