Enter – a course designed not for the novice, but for the experienced security architect, engineer, or analyst who needed to transition from on-premises thinking to a cloud-native security posture. The 2021 iteration of this course was particularly significant because it captured the post-2020 acceleration to cloud adoption while addressing emerging threats like sophisticated container escapes and cloud-native ransomware. sans sec 549 2021
Post-SolarWinds (2020): The industry was reeling from the SolarWinds supply chain attack. SEC 549 2021 placed a heavy emphasis on securing software supply chains and build pipelines.
Kubernetes Dominance: By 2021, K8s had won the container orchestration war. The course dedicated significant lab time to admission controllers, network policies, and runtime security for pods.
Shift-Left Proliferation: The concept of "shifting left" (testing security early in development) moved from buzzword to mandate. SEC 549 provided hands-on tools to actually implement this.
