SECURITY ENGINEERING ON AWS
Course Overview
In this course, learn how to efficiently use AWS security services for optimal security and compliancy in the AWS cloud. This course focuses on the AWS-recommended best practices that you can implement to enhance the security of your data and systems in the cloud. The course highlights the security features of AWS key services including compute, storage, networking, and database services. This course also refers to the common security control objectives and regulatory compliance standards. Additionally, you will examine use cases for running regulated workloads on AWS across different verticals, globally. You will also learn how to leverage AWS services and tools for automation and continuous monitoring-taking your security operations to the next level.
Course Objectives
Upon completion of this training, you will know:
- AWS shared security responsibility model
- Architect and build AWS application infrastructures protected against security threats
- Protecting data at rest and in transit with encryption
- Apply security checks and analyses in an automated and reproducible manner
- Configure authentication for resources and applications in the AWS Cloud
- Gain insight into events by capturing, monitoring, processing, and analyzing logs
- Identify and mitigate incoming threats against applications and data
- Perform security assessments to ensure that common vulnerabilities are patched and security best practices are applied
Course Prequisites
- AWS Cloud Practitioner
- AWS Security Fundamentals
- Architecting on AWS
- experience with governance, risk, compliance regulations, and control objectives; working knowledge of IT security practices and IT infrastructure concepts; familiarity with cloud computing concepts
Target Audience
Security engineers, architects, analysts, and auditors. Individuals who are responsible for governing, auditing, and testing an organization’s IT infrastructure, as well as ensuring conformity of the infrastructure to security, risk, and compliance guidelines
Course Outline
Lesson 1 : Introduction to Cloud Security
Lesson 2 : Security of the AWS Cloud
Lesson 3 : Cloud Aware Governance and Compliance
Lesson 4 : Identity and Access Management
Lesson 5 : Securing AWS Infrastructure Services
Lesson 6 : Securing AWS Container Services
Lesson 7 : Securing AWS Abstracted Services
Lesson 8 : Using AWS Security Services
Lesson 9 : Data Protection in the AWS Cloud
Lesson 10 : Building Compliant Workloads on AWS-Case Study
Lesson 11 : Security Incident Management in the Cloud