Security Engineering on AWS – AW-SEC

Course Description

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. It 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.

Technology: AWS
Delivery Method: Instructor-led
Training Credits: NA

Audience Profile

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

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 instructor-led courses
• Have at least 1 year of experience operating AWS workloads Understanding of resilience and disaster recovery, including backup and restore operations.

Course Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able 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

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