{"id":44,"date":"2026-07-09T16:49:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T16:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/garycoulter.com\/?p=44"},"modified":"2026-07-09T16:49:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T16:49:24","slug":"my-journey-into-cloud-security-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garycoulter.com\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"My Journey Into Cloud Security Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hello, and welcome to my blog! My name is Gary Coulter and I&#8217;ve worked for more than 10 years in Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) for a variety of federal government contractors. I&#8217;m interested in becoming a cloud security analyst and eventually a cloud security engineer. I enjoy hands-on technical work, and I&#8217;m fascinated by the possibilities the cloud offers. I also want to put my talents to use in making the cloud a more secure place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since I don&#8217;t work in a hands-on technical job, I&#8217;m devoting some of my own time to learning cloud security concepts. One idea I had to accomplish this and to show off what I&#8217;ve learned to potential employers was to create a blog that didn&#8217;t use a software as a service (SaaS) platform. I know using a SaaS blogging platform is the quickest and easiest way to start a blog, but I didn&#8217;t think it would allow me to learn cloud security concepts the same way hosting my own blog would. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This blog will be a place for me to document how I created my environment, talk about the decisions I&#8217;ve made and why they&#8217;re appropriate for my use case, and explained how I&#8217;ve secured my environment (without giving away the keys to the kingdom, of course!). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let&#8217;s get started!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, and welcome to my blog! My name is Gary Coulter and I&#8217;ve worked for more than 10 years in Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) for a variety of federal government contractors. I&#8217;m interested in becoming a cloud security analyst and eventually a cloud security engineer. I enjoy hands-on technical work, and I&#8217;m fascinated by<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link\">\n\t\t\t\t <a href=\"https:\/\/garycoulter.com\/?p=44\" class=\"link-btn theme-btn\"><span>Read More <\/span> <i class=\"fa fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garycoulter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garycoulter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garycoulter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garycoulter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garycoulter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/garycoulter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45,"href":"https:\/\/garycoulter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garycoulter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garycoulter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garycoulter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}