Getting Started with Amazon GuardDuty

Amazon GuardDuty provides visibility into security threats to help you identify and remediate anomalous or suspicious activities. This course will provide you with a fundamental understanding of the purpose, benefits, architecture, pricing philosophy, and common use cases of Amazon GuardDuty. The course also explores how the service is implemented in an AWS environment with demonstration of basic setup and usage of the service.

      •    Course level: Fundamental

      •    Duration: 1 hour

Activities

This course includes text, videos, and interactive activities.

Course objectives

In this course, you will learn to:

      •    Describe the purpose of Amazon GuardDuty.

      •    Identify what problems GuardDuty solves.

      •    Recognize the benefits of GuardDuty.

      •    Explain GuardDuty pricing.

      •    Identify the different types of threats that GuardDuty can detect.

      •    Describe various ways to react to a GuardDuty finding.

Intended audience

This course is intended for:

      •    Security Engineers, Security Architects and Systems Operations

      •    IT consultants designing, architecting, and maintaining applications and solutions to run securely in the AWS Cloud 

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, participants should have completed the following:

      •    AWS Security Fundamentals Second Edition 

Course outline

Module 1: Exploring Amazon GuardDuty

      •    Introduction to Amazon GuardDuty

      •    Use Cases and Architecture

Module 2: Using Amazon GuardDuty

      •    Getting Started with Amazon GuardDuty

      •    Storing Findings

      •    Alerting on Findings

      •    More Ways to Use GuardDuty

Module 3: Conclusion

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