• Course overview
  • Course details
  • Prerequisites

Course overview

About this course

Security Operations on AWS demonstrates how to efficiently use AWS security services to stay secure and compliant in the AWS Cloud. The course focuses on the AWS-recommended security best practices that you can implement to enhance the security of your data and systems in the cloud. The course highlights the security features of AWS key services including compute, storage, networking, and database services. This course also refers to the common security control objectives and regulatory compliance standards and examines use cases for running regulated workloads on AWS across different verticals, globally. You will also learn how to leverage AWS services and tools for automation and continuous monitoring—taking your security operations to the next level.

Audience profile
  • Security engineers
  • Security architects
  • Security analysts
  • Security auditors
  • Individuals who are responsible for governing, auditing, and testing an organization’s IT infrastructure, and ensuring conformity of the infrastructure to security, risk, and compliance guidelines
At course completion

You will be able to learn:

  • Assimilate and leverage the AWS shared security responsibility model.
  • Manage user identity and access management in the AWS cloud.
  • Use AWS security services such as AWS Identity and Access Management, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, AWS Config, AWS CloudTrail, AWS Key Management Service, AWS CloudHSM, and AWS Trusted Advisor.
  • Implement better security controls for your resources in the AWS cloud.
  • Manage and audit your AWS resources from a security perspective.
  • Monitor and log access and usage of AWS compute, storage, networking, and database services.
  • Assimilate and leverage the AWS shared compliance responsibility model.
  • Identify AWS services and tools to help automate, monitor, and manage security operations on AWS.
  • Perform security incident management in the AWS cloud.

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Course details

Day 1

Module 1: Introduction to Cloud Security

Module 2: Cloud Aware Governance and Compliance

Module 3: Identity and Access Management

Lab 1: Using AWS IAM

Module 4: Securing AWS Infrastructure Services - Part 1

Lab 2: Creating a virtual private cloud

Day 2

Module 5: Securing AWS Infrastructure Services - Part 2

Module 6: Securing AWS Container Services - Part 1

Module 6: Securing AWS Container Services - Part 2

Lab 3: Using RDS security groups

Module 7: Securing AWS Abstracted Services

Lab 4: Securing Amazon S3 buckets

Module 8: Using AWS Security Services - Part 1

Lab 5: Capturing logs

Day 3

Module 9: Using AWS Security Products - Part 2

Lab 6: Using AWS Config

Lab 7: Using AWS Service Catalog

Module 10: Data Protection in the AWS Cloud

Module 11: Building Compliant Workloads on AWS - Case Studies

Module 12: Security Incident Management in the Cloud

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Prerequisites

  • Attended AWS Security Fundamentals
  • Experience with governance, risk, and compliance regulations and control objectives
  • Working knowledge of IT security practices
  • Working knowledge of IT infrastructure concepts
  • Familiarity with cloud computing concepts

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