AWS Security Essentials covers fundamental AWS cloud security concepts, including AWS access control, data encryption methods, and how network access to your AWS infrastructure can be secured. Based on the AWS Shared Security Model, you learn where you are responsible for implementing security in the AWS Cloud and what security-oriented services are available to you and why and how the security services can help meet the security needs of your organization. This course enables you to dive deep, ask questions, work through solutions, and get feedback from AWS-accredited instructors with deep technical knowledge. This is a fundamental level course and is a part of the AWS Security learning path.
Target Audience
This course is intended for:
- IT business-level professionals interested in cloud security practices
- Security professionals with minimal working knowledge of AWS
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Learning Objectives
This course is designed to teach you how to:
- Identify security benefits and responsibilities when using the AWS Cloud
- Describe the access control and management features of AWS
- Understand the different data encryption methods to secure sensitive data
- Describe how to secure network access to your AWS resources
- Determine which AWS services can be used for security logging and monitoring
Pre-Requisites
We recommend that attendees of this course have:
- Working knowledge of IT security practices and infrastructure concepts, familiarity with cloud computing concepts
Course Content
Module 1: Security on AWS
Security design principles in the AWS Cloud
AWS Shared Responsibility Model
Module 2: Security OF the Cloud
AWS Global Infrastructure
Data Center Security
Compliance and Governance
Module 3: Security IN the Cloud – Part 1
Identity and Access Management
Data Protection
Lab 01 – Introduction to Security Policies
Module 4: Security IN the Cloud – Part 2
Securing your infrastructure
Monitoring and detective controls
Lab 02 – Securing VPC Resources with Security Groups
Module 5: Security IN the Cloud – Part 3
DDoS mitigation ? Incident response essentials
Lab 03 – Automating Incident Response with AWS Config and AWS Lambda
Module 6: Course Wrap Up
AWS Well-Architected tool overview
