About Course

This course demonstrates how to efficiently use AWS security services to stay secure in the AWS Cloud The course focuses on the security practices that AWS recommends for enhancing 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 You will also learn how to leverage AWS services and tools for automation continuous monitoring and logging and responding to security incidents

Prerequisite Courses

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

• Working knowledge of IT security practices and infrastructure concepts
• Familiarity with cloud computing concepts
• Attended either Architecting on AWS or Systems Operations on AWS

Skills Gained

This course teaches you how to:

• Assimilate and leverage the AWS shared security responsibility model
• Architect and build AWS application infrastructures that are protected against the most common security threats
• Protect 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

Who Can Benefit

This course is intended for:

• Security engineers
• Security architects
• Security operations
• Information security

Course Details

Delivery Method

• Classroom training
• Hands-on labs
• Group exercises

This course is delivered through a mix of:

Day 1

• Identifying Entry Points on AWS
• Security Considerations: Web Application Environments
• Application Security
• Securing Networking Communications – Part 1