AWSSE: Security Engineering on AWS

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. The course 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.

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

• Assimilate and leverage the AWS shared security responsibility model
• Mange 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 CloudTrail, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Key Management Service, AWS CloudHSM, AWS Config, AWS Service Catalog, 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, cloud resiliency, and business continuity in the AWS cloud

• 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

1. Introduction to Cloud Security

2. Security of the AWS Cloud

3. Cloud Aware Governance and Compliance

4. Identity and Access Management

5. Securing AWS Infrastructure Services

6. Securing AWS Container Services

7. Securing AWS Abstracted Services

8. Using AWS Security Services

9. Data Protection in the AWS Cloud

10. Building Compliant Workloads on AWS-Case Study

11. Security Incident Management in the Cloud

 
Note: This is an emerging technology course. The course outline is subject to change as needed.