Security Engineering on AWS

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$2,025.00

Duration
3 Days

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Virtual Instructor Led
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Course Overview

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

Identify security benefits and responsibilities of using the AWS Cloud

Build secure application infrastructures

Protect applications and data from common security threats

Perform and automate security checks

Configure authentication and permissions for applications and resources

Monitor AWS resources and respond to incidents

Capture and process logs

Create and configure automated and repeatable deployments with tools such as AMIs and AWS CloudFormation

Who Should Attend?

This course is intended for security engineers, security architects, and information security professionals.

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Course Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

Working knowledge of IT security practices and infrastructure concepts

Familiarity with cloud computing concepts

Completed AWS Security Essentials and Architecting on AWS courses

Agenda

1 - Security on AWS

Security in the AWS cloud
AWS Shared Responsibility Model
Incident response overview
DevOps with Security Engineering

2 - Identifying Entry Points on AWS

Identify the different ways to access the AWS platform
Understanding IAM policies
IAM Permissions Boundary
IAM Access Analyzer
Multi-factor authentication
AWS CloudTrail

3 - Security Considerations: Web Application Environments

Threats in a three-tier architecture
Common threats: user access
Common threats: data access
AWS Trusted Advisor

4 - Application Security

Amazon Machine Images
Amazon Inspector
AWS Systems Manager

5 - Data Security

Data protection strategies
Encryption on AWS
Protecting data at rest with Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB
Protecting archived data with Amazon S3 Glacier
Amazon S3 Access Analyzer
Amazon S3 Access Points

6 - Securing Network Communications

Amazon VPC security considerations
Amazon VPC Traffic Mirroring
Responding to compromised instances
Elastic Load Balancing
AWS Certificate Manager

7 - Monitoring and Collecting Logs on AWS

Amazon CloudWatch and CloudWatch Logs
AWS Config
Amazon Macie
Amazon VPC Flow Logs
Amazon S3 Server Access Logs
ELB Access Logs

8 - Processing Logs on AWS

Amazon Kinesis
Amazon Athena

9 - Security Considerations: Hybrid Environments

AWS Site-to-Site and Client VPN connections
AWS Direct Connect
AWS Transit Gateway

10 - Out-Of-Region Protection

Amazon Route 53
AWS WAF
Amazon CloudFront
AWS Shield
AWS Firewall Manager
DDoS mitigation on AWS

11 - Security Considerations: Serverless Environments

Amazon Cognito
Amazon API Gateway
AWS Lambda

12 - Threat Detection and Investigation

Amazon GuardDuty
AWS Security Hub
Amazon Detective

13 - Secrets Management on AWS

AWS KMS
AWS CloudHSM
AWS Secrets Manager

14 - Automation and Security by Design

AWS CloudFormation
AWS Service Catalog

15 - Account Management and Provisioning on AWS

AWS Organizations
AWS Control Tower
AWS SSO
AWS Directory Service

Upcoming Class Dates and Times

Dec 19, 20, 21
6:30 AM - 2:30 PM

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