AWS Security Essentials
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Security
On-Site, Virtual
1 day
This course covers fundamental Amazon Web Services (AWS) security concepts, including AWS access control, data encryption methods, and how to secure network access to your AWS infrastructure. Based on the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, you learn your responsibilities related to implementing security in the AWS Cloud and which security-oriented services are available to you. You also learn why and how the security services help meet the security needs of your organization.
Course objectives
In this course, you will learn to:
- Identify security benefits and responsibilities of using the AWS
- Describe the access control and management features of
- Explain the available methods for encrypting data at rest and in
- Describe how to secure network access to your AWS
- Determine which AWS services can be used for monitoring and incident
Activities
This course includes presentations and hands-on labs.
Intended audience
This course is intended for:
- Security IT business-level professionals interested in cloud security practices
- Security professionals with minimal to no working knowledge of AWS
Prerequisites
We recommend that attendees of this course have:
Working knowledge of IT security practices and infrastructure concepts and familiarity with cloud computing concepts.
Course outline
- AWS Well-Architected Framework: Security Pillar
- Shared responsibility model
- AWS Global Infrastructure
- Compliance and governance
- Identity and access management
- Data access and protection essentials
- Lab 1: Introduction to Security Policies
- Protecting your network infrastructure
- Edge Security
- DDoS Mitigation
- Protecting compute resources
- Lab 2: Securing VPC Resources with Security Groups
- Monitoring and detective controls
- Incident response essentials
