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Cloud & Cybersecurity

16 hours to demystify the cloud, understand the financial stakes (FinOps), adopt the right cybersecurity reflexes and comply with the GDPR day to day.

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Program overview

What you will be able to do

  • Compare the cloud models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) and the leading providers.
  • Control costs (FinOps): pay-as-you-go billing, commitments, optimizations.
  • Identify the most common cyber threats (phishing, ransomware, social engineering).
  • Adopt solid digital hygiene (passwords, MFA, backups).
  • Frame a project in compliance with the GDPR and your internal security policy.
Course outline

2 sessions · 8 modules

Session 18 h

Understand & govern the cloud

Models, providers, economics.

1.1 - 2 h

Cloud overview & models

IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, serverless. Public, private, hybrid and sovereign cloud.

1.2 - 2 h

Providers & key services

AWS, Azure, GCP: overview, flagship services, choosing a provider.

1.3 - 2 h

FinOps: control costs

Pricing models, commitments (RI/SP), tagging, budget alerts, cost-hunting workshop.

1.4 - 2 h

Legal framework & sovereignty

Cloud Act, SecNumCloud, transfers outside the EU, sovereign alternatives.

Session 28 h

Cybersecurity & GDPR

Adopt the right reflexes, protect your teams.

2.1 - 2 h

Threat overview

Phishing, ransomware, social engineering, CEO fraud. Real-world case studies.

2.2 - 2 h

Digital hygiene

Passwords, MFA, password managers, backups, updates. Phishing-detection workshop.

2.3 - 2 h

GDPR in practice

Personal vs sensitive data, consent, records of processing, DPO, right of access.

2.4 - 2 h

Framing a secure project

Internal security policy, simplified risk analysis, building security into the specifications from day one.

Register for this course

Full details in the catalog.

Accessibility: this programme is open to people with disabilities. Our disability lead, Angélique Bensalah (a.bensalah@way-up.io), reviews the required adjustments in a preliminary interview, and refers you to a competent partner if we cannot meet the need. Complaints: same contact, acknowledged within 5 working days and answered within 15 working days (procedure).

Programme v1.0 · updated 7 August 2026