Cloud Security & Risk Management
Almost every insured now runs on somebody else's infrastructure, and that changes both the exposure and the question of who is liable for it. This course covers the cloud as an insurance problem: what the shared responsibility model actually assigns to the customer, why misconfiguration rather than provider failure drives most losses, and how a handful of providers concentrate risk across an entire book.
Read a cloud estate the way it will read on a claim
Cloud is where most modern exposure actually sits, and it is the part of a submission that insurance professionals are least equipped to interrogate. This course closes that gap without asking you to become an engineer.
- Explain the shared responsibility model, and say precisely which failures land on the customer rather than the provider.
- Recognise the configuration errors behind most cloud losses, and ask an insured the questions that surface them.
- Assess concentration and aggregation risk when many insureds depend on the same few providers.
- Trace a cloud outage or breach through to the cover that responds - and the dependent business interruption wording that may not.
What the course covers
Self-paced and on demand. A final assessment, earns the certificate of completion.
01 What the cloud actually is
Infrastructure, platform and software as a service, in plain terms and without the vendor vocabulary.
02 The shared responsibility model
The line between what a provider secures and what the customer secures - and why insureds routinely misread it.
03 Misconfiguration, the real loss driver
Exposed storage, over-broad permissions and absent logging: the errors that produce claims, and how to spot them in a submission.
04 Identity and access in the cloud
Why credentials are the perimeter now, and what good access control looks like to an underwriter.
05 Concentration and systemic risk
What it means for a portfolio when a large share of insureds sit behind the same few providers and the same few regions.
06 Cloud failure and the policy
Outage, breach and dependent business interruption: which cover responds, and where the wording leaves a gap.
For the desk that has to underwrite somebody else's infrastructure
No technical background and no engineering experience assumed. The course explains the technology only as far as you need it to price, place or settle the risk.
Underwriters
You are pricing risks that run entirely on third-party infrastructure and want to interrogate it properly.
Brokers
You need to present a client's cloud posture in a way that earns better terms, and explain what is not covered.
Risk managers
You are accountable for an estate you do not own, and need to know where your exposure and your cover diverge.
About this certificate course
No. This is a certificate course, which is shorter than a certification. You earn a certificate of completion, not a certification credential.
No. The cloud concepts are taught from zero and every one of them is tied back to exposure, wording or a claim.
No. The shared responsibility model, misconfiguration risk and concentration risk apply across the major providers, so the course stays provider-neutral.
No. It is a one-off purchase, with no renewal and no maintenance fee, and your certificate of completion does not expire.
Most exposure now sits on infrastructure your insured does not own
The cloud as an insurance problem: shared responsibility, misconfiguration and concentration risk. A certificate course.