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Security Engineering on AWS Course Overview
Security Engineering on AWS training demonstrates different methods you can apply to ensure secure functioning within the AWS cloud. This course also refers to the common security control objectives and regulatory compliance standards. Additionally, you will get to closely examine use cases for running regulated workloads on AWS across different verticals, globally. You will also understand how to leverage AWS services and tools for continuous monitoring and automation and your security operations to the next level.
This 3-day, intermediate-level course is delivered in a blended-learning pattern that includes a mixture of classroom training, group exercises, and hands-on activities that let you apply your IT training to real-world situations.
This course prepares you for the AWS Certified Security - Specialty Certification and includes presentations, demonstrations, and hands-on labs.
Course Curriculum
Audience
This course is intended for security engineers, security architects, and information security professionals.
Eligibility Criteria
Before taking this course, we recommend that attendees must have:
- Working knowledge of IT security practices and infrastructure concepts
- Familiarity with cloud computing concepts
- Completed AWS Security Essentials and Architecting on AWS instructor-led courses
Course Objectives
In this course, you will learn to:
- 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
About the Certification - AWS Certified Security – Specialty Certification
This training program prepares you for the AWS Certified Security - Specialty Certification. This credential helps you build critical skills for implementing cloud initiatives. It validates your expertise in securing data and workloads in the AWS cloud.
Skills validates by the AWS Certified Security – Specialty Certification:
- Security Basics
- Security of AWS
- Security in AWS
- Using AWS Security Products
- Securing AWS Services
- Identity and Access Management
- Compliance
- Incident Management & Troubleshooting
About the Examination:
Exam Name: AWS Certified Security – Specialty exam
Exam Code: SCS-C01
Exam Level: Specialty
Exam Duration: 170 minutes
No. of Questions: 65 Multiple-choice questions
Training Options
ONLINE TRAINING
Instructor-Led Session
- 3 days Instructor led Online Training
- Experienced Subject Matter Experts
- Approved and Quality Ensured training Material
- 24*7 leaner assistance and support
CORPORATE TRAINING
Customized to your team's need
- Customized Training Across Various Domains
- Instructor Led Skill Development Program
- Ensure Maximum ROI for Corporates
- 24*7 Learner Assistance and Support
Course Outline
Module 1: Security on AWS
- Security in the AWS cloud
- AWS Shared Responsibility Model
- Incident response overview
- DevOps with Security Engineering
Module 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
- Lab 01: Cross-account access
Module 3: Security Considerations: Web Application Environments
- Threats in a three-tier architecture
- Common threats: user access
- Common threats: data access
- AWS Trusted Advisor
Module 4: Application Security
- Amazon Machine Images
- Amazon Inspector
- AWS Systems Manager
- Lab 02: Using AWS Systems Manager and Amazon Inspector
Module 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
Module 6: Securing Network Communications
- Amazon VPC security considerations
- Amazon VPC Traffic Mirroring
- Responding to compromised instances
- Elastic Load Balancing
- AWS Certificate Manager
Module 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
- Lab 03: Monitor and Respond with AWS Config
Module 8: Processing Logs on AWS
- Amazon Kinesis
- Amazon Athena
- Lab 04: Web Server Log Analysis
Module 9: Security Considerations: Hybrid Environments
- AWS Site-to-Site and Client VPN connections
- AWS Direct Connect
- AWS Transit Gateway
Module 10: Out-Of-Region Protection
- Amazon Route 53
- AWS WAF
- Amazon CloudFront
- AWS Shield
- AWS Firewall Manager
- DDoS mitigation on AWS
Module 11: Security Considerations: Serverless Environments
- Amazon Cognito
- Amazon API Gateway
- AWS Lambda
Module 12: Threat Detection and Investigation
- Amazon GuardDuty
- AWS Security Hub
- Amazon Detective
Module 13: Secrets Management on AWS
- AWS KMS
- AWS CloudHSM
- AWS Secrets Manager
- Lab 05: Using AWS KMS
Module 14: Automation and Security by Design
- AWS CloudFormation
- AWS Service Catalog
- Lab 06: Security automation on AWS with AWS Service Catalog
Module 15: Account Management and Provisioning on AWS
- AWS Organizations
- AWS Control Tower
- AWS SSO
- AWS Directory Service
- Lab 07: Federated Access with ADFS
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The Security Engineering on AWS training enables professionals learn the best security practices required to efficiently perform in the AWS cloud.
Candidates must fulfil the following prerequisites to be eligible for this course:
- Working knowledge of IT security practices and infrastructure concepts
- Familiarity with cloud computing concepts
- Completed AWS Security Essentials and Architecting on AWS instructor-led courses
Yes, this training program prepares you for the AWS Certified Security – Specialty certification.
This is a 3-day course.
This credential remains valid for three years.
In case you fail an exam, you can retake the certification exam after 14 days. There is no limit on number of attempts but you will have to pay the full registration fee for each attempt.