The AWS Certified Security - Specialty exam is intended for individuals who perform a security role. The exam validates a candidate’s ability to effectively demonstrate knowledge about securing the AWS platform.
This exam validates a candidate's ability to complete the following tasks:
- An understanding of specialized data classifications and AWS data protection mechanisms
- An understanding of data-encryption methods and AWS mechanisms to implement them
- An understanding of secure internet protocols and AWS mechanisms to implement them
- A working knowledge of AWS security services and features of services to provide a secure production
environment
- Competency from 2 or more years of production deployment experience in using AWS security
services and features
- The ability to make tradeoff decisions with regard to cost, security, and deployment complexity to
meet a set of application requirements
- An understanding of security operations and risks
Who Should Take This Exam?
The target candidate should have 5 years of IT security experience in designing and implementing security solutions. Additionally, the target candidate should have 2 or more years of hands-on experience in securing AWS workloads. Before you take this exam, we recommend you have the following knowledge:
- The AWS shared responsibility model and its application
- Security controls for workloads on AWS
- Logging and monitoring strategies
- Cloud security threat models
- Patch management and security automation
- Ways to enhance AWS security services with third-party tools and services
- Disaster recovery controls, including BCP and backups
- Encryption, Access control, Data retention
Steps to Achieve Your AWS Certified Security - Specialty Certification
- Attend Security Engineering on AWS
- Pass the following exams: