AWS Certified Security

The AWS Certified Security – Specialty is intended for individuals who perform a security role with at least two years of hands-on experience securing AWS workloads.

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

Duration: 3 days
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