Multi-cloud foundations
INE Certified Cloud Associate
ICCA validates foundational cloud fluency across AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, including identity, security and governance concepts.
About the certification
The INE Certified Cloud Associate is a vendor-neutral, entry-level cloud certification. It establishes an understanding of shared cloud concepts across the major providers and how service models, identities, resources, security responsibilities and governance fit together in modern organisations.
Skills it validates
The certification assesses practical knowledge across the following areas.
- Cloud service and deployment models
- AWS, Azure and Google Cloud fundamentals
- Cloud identity and access concepts
- Security, compliance and shared responsibility
- Resource management, monitoring and governance
What it means for clients
Within a Darkside engagement, these skills support disciplined testing, realistic attack-path analysis and reporting that prioritises useful outcomes.
- Provides a consistent multi-cloud vocabulary for scoping and communicating risk
- Supports assessment of identity, governance and security responsibilities
- Complements deeper platform-specific testing with broad architectural context
Credentials and delivery
Certification is one part of our assurance model. Darkside combines validated knowledge with manual testing, peer review and engagement-specific judgement; every scope, test plan and report is shaped around the client’s systems and risk.