Masterclass Digital Transformation

•  Anyone who wants to know about the latest trends in IT

• Understand the main characteristics of SOA: loosely Coupling, the concept of a contract for your interface, reusability
• Explain the features of a RESTful API and Microservice
• Identify the challenges with APIs
• Understand the need for a Dynamic Service Discovery and for an API Gateway
• Compare an API with a Microservice
• Understand the advantages and pitfalls of Docker - Kubernetes
• Know when to choose for an API, Microservice, Docker, Service-Mesh or Serverless design
• Explain the shift in responsibilities with the move to the cloud
• Understand Security is a shared responsibility in the cloud
• Understand the complexity of the Hybrid Cloud
• Identify the issues with cost management
• Understand the Cloud security and high availability features
• Explain the danger of Shadow IT and the function of a Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB)
• Explain Cloud automation and Policy based automation and the concept of Infrastructure as Code
• Understand the need for the distributed cloud and Points of Presence (PoP).
• Understand the importance of Edge Computing
• Understand why now the time is to start with AI/ML: the 7 key enablers
• Explain the Data Science fundamentals
• Identify the basic Machine Learning techniques (supervised, unsupervised, deep learning etc.)
• Identify which tools are available for Machine Learning and AutoML
• Explain implemenation of Machine Learning
• Understand the Risks and ethics of AI and Machine Learning
• Understand the need for Zero Trust Network Access
• Identify Zero Trust solutions as Software Defined Perimeter and Micro-segmentation
• Describe UEBA and the relationship with CARTA
• Identify the importance of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in IT security
• Understand the architecture of SDP
• Identify the critical factors when choosing a SDP product
• Identify the features of a Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB)
• Explain the difference between API only and first-gen, next-gen multimode CASBs
• Compare the different implementations of a CASB solution (log collection, packet capture, Cloud APIs, proxies and AJAX-VM)
• Understand the problem with proxy solutions
• Understand the decisive factors when buying a CASB solution
• Describe the features of SD-WAN
• Identify the mandatory services of a SASE solution
• Understand the architecture and implementation of a SASE solution
• Compare SASE vendors PoPs and network offerings (global private backbone)
• Understand the essentials services offered by a SASE solution:
• Software-defined perimeter (SDP) en Zero Trust network access (ZTNA)
• Secure web gateway (SWG) versus Firewall as a service (FWaaS) versus Nextgen firewall (NGFW) versus Web Application firewall (WAF)
• Next-generation antimalware (NGAM)
• Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) versus Intrusion prevention system (IPS)
• Remote Browser Isolation (RBI)
• Explain the role of Deep Packet Inspection (DPI)

• What are the advantages and disadvantages of an API and a Microservice?
• What are the requirements for an application to run in an application container
• What is Docker and Kubernetes
• The Microservices hierarchy of needs
• Advantages and pitfalls of a Service Mesh
• What is Serverless?
• The shift in responsibilities
• Security: a shared responsibility
• Complexity of the Hybrid Cloud
• Shadow IT and CASB
• Cloud automation: Policy based automation, Infrastructure as Code, the Shift Left
• Self healing and auto-scaling
• Why the Distributed Cloud
• What is Edge Computing
• Cloud mythes
• The fundamentals of AI and Machine Learning
• Terminology AI and Machine Learning (Deep learning, General AI, Narrow AI, Singularity etc. etc)
• Basic Machine Learning techniques (supervised, unsupervised etc.)
• Which code libraries are available for the different Machine Learning techniques
• How to start a Machine Learning project in your organization
• Risks and ethics of AI and Machine Learning
• What are the features of Zero Trust Network Access
• How to implement ZTNA
• The future of the internet: Named Data Networking (NDN)
• The features of CARTA: the 7 imperatives of CARTA
• What is SDP and how does it work?
• SDP architecture
• Single Packet Authorization
• Static and dynamic firewalls
• Why do you need a CASB? What does a CASB offer, what are the advantages?
• Architecture CASB, first-gen versus next-gen Multi-mode CASBs
• The different implementations of CASB: log collection, packet capture, Cloud APIs, proxies and AJAX-VM
• What is SD-WAN and Software Defined Networking
• Comparison MPLS and SD-WAN
• Advantages SD-WAN: transport agnostic, tunnel bonding, intelligent routing
• What is SASE
• The problem with Service chaining
• Architecture and implementation: SASE Cloud and SASE Points of Presence (PoP)
• What are the essential components of Networking as a Service and Security as a service:
• Software defined wide area network, SD-WAN
• Software-defined perimeter (SDP) en Zero Trust network access (ZTNA)
• Secure web gateway (SWG) versus Firewall as a service (FWaaS) versus Nextgen firewall (NGFW) versus Web Application firewall (WAF)
• Next-generation antimalware (NGAM)
• Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) versus Intrusion prevention system (IPS)
• Remote Browser Isolation (RBI)
• The role of Deep Packet Inspection (DPI)
• Recommendations and vendors

To join this course basic knowledge of IT is required.

For non-IT professionals it is recommended to follow the training: IT Essentials (for non IT-Professionals (GKITESS)