AWS Security Essentials

This course is intended for:

- IT business-level professionals interested in cloud security practices

- Security professionals with minimal working knowledge of AWS

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

Module 1: Exploring the Security Pillar

• AWS Well-Architected Framework: Security Pillar

Module 2: Security of the Cloud

• Shared responsibility model
• AWS Global Infrastructure
• Compliance and governance

Module 3: Identity and Access Management

• Identity and access management
• Data access and protection essentials
• Lab 1: Introduction to Security Policies

Module 4: Protecting Infrastructure and Data

• Protecting your network infrastructure
• Edge Security
• DDoS Mitigation
• Protecting compute resources
• Lab 2: Securing VPC Resources with Security Groups

Module 5: Detection and Response

• Monitoring and detective controls
• Incident response essentials

Module 6: Course Wrap-Up

• Course review
  

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

• Working knowledge of IT security practices and infrastructure concepts, familiarity with cloud computing concepts