Security Engineering on AWS

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.

Audience

This course is intended for:

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

Goals

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
  
  

Prerequisites

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

• AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials
• Security Fundamentals Online
• Architecting on AWS
• Working knowledge of IT security practices and infrastructure concepts
• Familiarity with cloud computing concepts

Study materials

Amazon Web Services authorized e-book included.

Previous courses

AWS Technical Essentials
Architecting on AWS
Security Fundamentals Online