# Data Access — Views & Policies — Session 5 of the VAST Customer Education Series (Wed, Sep 2)

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Hi Cosmos community 👋

Session 5 of our **VAST Customer Education Series** is tomorrow, and it’s all about how you expose data on VAST and keep it secure across protocols.

**What we’ll cover:**

- Views & view policies overview
- Host-based access rules & auditing
- Creating NFS, SMB, NFSv4.1, and S3 views
- Generating S3 access keys
- Security flavors — NFS, SMB, Mixed-Last-Wins, S3 Native
- Multi-protocol access & VAST ACLs

📅 **Wednesday, Sep 2 · 11am ET / 8am PT / 16:00 BST**  
Session page & registration: [VAST Live Customer Education Series - VAST Data](https://www.vastdata.com/events/data-access-views-and-policies)

Missed earlier sessions? Catch the recordings here:

- S1 · VAST Foundations & Architecture: [VAST Live Customer Education Series - VAST Data](https://www.vastdata.com/resources/webinars/vast-foundations-and-architecture)
- S2 · VMS Overview & Orientation: [VAST Live Customer Education Series - VAST Data](https://www.vastdata.com/resources/forms/webinars/vms-overview-and-orientation)
- S3 · Identity, Tenancy & Access Control: [VAST Live Customer Education Series - VAST Data](https://www.vastdata.com/resources/forms/webinars/identity-tenancy-and-access-control)
- S4 · Networking Fundamentals: [VAST Live Customer Education Series - VAST Data](https://www.vastdata.com/resources/webinars/networking-fundamentals)

Prefer to get the whole journey on your calendar at once? Register for all nine sessions — the easiest way to build VAST fluency and prepare for the **VAST Administrator Certification** :

> **[VAST Live Customer Education Series](https://www.vastdata.com/customer-education-series?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=LinkedIn&utm_campaign=FY27-Global-ADOP-MUC-Webinar-Customer-Education-Series)**
>
> VAST delivers the first AI Operating System, unifying storage, database, and compute to drive agentic computing and data intensive workloads. Learn more.

Next up after this: Data Management on Sep 16. Hope to see you there!