Security Engineering on AWS

Course Description

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.

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn 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

Delivery Method

This course is delivered through a mix of:

Classroom training
Hands-on labs
Group exercises

Duration

3 day(s)

Time

9-5 PM

Price

$2,025

Labs

Hands-on Activity

This course allows you to test new skills and apply knowledge to your working environment through a variety of practical exercises.

Intended Audience

This course is intended for:

Security engineers
Security architects
Information security

Prerequisites

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

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

Outline

This course covers the following concepts:

Day 1

Entry points on AWS
Security considerations for Web Application environments
Securing network communications inside the Amazon VPC
Application security with incident response

Day 2

Data security with incident response
Security considerations for a hybrid environment
AWS monitoring and log collecting
Processing logs on AWS
Protecting against threats outside of the Amazon VPC

Day 3

Account management on AWS
Security considerations for a serverless environment
Secrets management on AWS
Automating security and incident response on AWS
Threat detection and sensitive data monitoring