Digital Classroom - AWS Security Essentials

This course covers fundamental AWS cloud security concepts, including AWS access control, data encryption methods, and how network access to your AWS infrastructure can be secured. Based on the AWS Shared Security Model, you learn where you are responsible for implementing security in the AWS Cloud and what security-oriented services are available to you and why and how the security services can help meet the security needs of your organization.

Course Objectives

 In this course, you will learn how to:

• Assimilate Identify security benefits and responsibilities of using the AWS Cloud.
• Describe the access control and management features of AWS.
• Explain the available methods for providing encryption of data in transit and data at rest when storing your data in AWS.
• Describe how to secure network access to your AWS resources.
• Determine which AWS services can be used for monitoring and incident response.
  
  

Intended Audience

 This course is intended for:  

•  Security IT business-level professionals interested in cloud security practices    
•  Security professionals with minimal to no working knowledge of AWS  

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

• Working knowledge of IT security practices and infrastructure concepts, familiarity with cloud computing concepts

Course Outline

• Module 1 – Exploring the Security Pillar
• Module 2 – Security of the Cloud
• Module 3 – Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Module 4 – Protecting and Infrastructure Data
• Module 5 – Detection and Incident Response