The GIAC Cloud Security Essentials (GCLD) certification validates a practitioner's ability to implement preventive, detective, and reactionary techniques to defend valuable cloud-based workloads.

The GIAC Cloud Security Essentials (GCLD) certification proves that the certificate holder understands many of the security challenges brought forth when migrating systems and applications to cloud service provider (CSP) environments. Understanding this new threat landscape is only half the battle. The GCLD certification goes one step further - proving that the defender can implement preventive, detective, and reactionary techniques to defend these valuable cloud-based workloads.

The GIAC Web Application Defender (GWEB) certification allows candidates to demonstrate mastery of the security knowledge and skills needed to deal with common web application errors that lead to most security problems. The successful candidate will have hands-on experience using current tools to detect and prevent input validation flaws, cross-site scripting (XSS), and SQL injection as well as an in-depth understanding of authentication, access control, and session management, their weaknesses, and how they are best defended. GWEB candidates have the knowledge, skills, and abilities to secure web applications and recognize and mitigate security weaknesses in existing web applications.

The GIAC Cloud Security Automation (GCSA) certification validates a practitioner's understanding of the DevSecOps methodology and toolchains, and skill in implementing security controls throughout automated secure DevOps pipelines. GCSA certification holders have demonstrated knowledge of the tools, security controls, and configuration required to improve reliability, integrity, and security of cloud-hosted systems.

The GIAC Cloud Security Automation (GCSA) certification covers cloud services and modern DevSecOps practices that are used to build and deploy systems and applications more securely. The certification shows that you not only know how to speak the language of modern cloud and DevSecOps principles but can put them into practice in an automated and repeatable manner.

The GIAC Public Cloud Security (GPCS) certification validates a practitioner's ability to secure the cloud in both public cloud and multi cloud environments. GPCS-certified professionals are familiar with the nuances of AWS, Azure, GCP and have the skills needed to defend each of these platforms.

SEC510: Cloud Security Controls and Mitigations covers a large array of topics across each of the Big 3 Cloud providers. Certification is crucial to prove that an individual can navigate through the nuances of each platform to defend the data and infrastructure within. The GPCS distinguishes itself from the certifications offered by each provider because it remains vendor neutral. GPCS emphasizes the security strengths and weaknesses of each provider, highlighting that they are not secure by default and require professional reconfiguration. Any organization using one or more of these providers will find the knowledge and experience of GPCS holders to be indispensable to their security strategy.

The GIAC Cloud Threat Detection (GCTD) certification validates a practitioner's ability to detect and investigate suspicious activity in cloud infrastructure. GCTD-certified professionals are experienced in cyber threat intelligence, secure cloud configuration, and other practices needed to defend cloud solutions and services.

GIAC Cloud Threat and Detection (GCTD) certification demonstrates your deep understanding of the threats against cloud environments, how attacks work, and what steps should be taken to detect and investigate those threats. You have researched attacker techniques and performed them in a live environment. You have a deep understanding of the scope and limitations of cloud telemetry from the management plane, networking, host, containers, data storage, and other cloud resources. You know how to use the cloud analytic services, or bring all logging to your own analytic service. With this certification, you have demonstrated your ability to protect your cloud environment.

The GIAC Cloud Forensics Responder (GCFR) certification validates a practitioner's ability to track and respond to incidents across the three major cloud providers. GCFR-certified professionals are well-versed in the log collection and interpretation skills needed to manage rapidly changing enterprise cloud environments.

The GIAC Cloud Forensic Responder (GCFR) is the first certification in the industry that shows that the holder has the knowledge necessary to respond and investigate across all three major cloud providers (Amazon, Google, Microsoft). Most classes and certifications focus on cloud security configuration, automation or detection but the GCFR represents what happens after the incident has occurred. Knowing how to interpret cloud native logs and data sources to identify attacks and root cause is something difficult to do with the information available publicly today, GCFR establishes that the individual is educated and prepared to do just that.