AWS-SECENG: Security Engineering on AWS

Overview

Duration: 3.0 days

This certification & training 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.

Objectives

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

Content

Day 1

Module 1: Security on AWS

Security in the AWS cloud
AWS Shared Responsibility Model
Incident response overview
DevOps with Security Engineering

Module 2: Identifying Entry Points on AWS

Identify the different ways to access the AWS platform
Understanding IAM policies
IAM Permissions Boundary
IAM Access Analyzer
Multi-factor authentication
AWS CloudTrail
Lab 01: Cross-account access

Module 3: Security Considerations: Web Application Environments

Threats in a three-tier architecture
Common threats: user access
Common threats: data access
AWS Trusted Advisor

Module 4: Application Security

Amazon Machine Images
Amazon Inspector
AWS Systems Manager
Lab 02: Using AWS Systems Manager and Amazon Inspector

Module 5: Data Security

Data protection strategies
Encryption on AWS
Protecting data at rest with Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB
Protecting archived data with Amazon S3 Glacier
Amazon S3 Access Analyzer
Amazon S3 Access Points

Day 2

Module 6: Securing Network Communications

Amazon VPC security considerations
Amazon VPC Traffic Mirroring
Responding to compromised instances
Elastic Load Balancing
AWS Certificate Manager

Module 7: Monitoring and Collecting Logs on AWS

Amazon CloudWatch and CloudWatch Logs
AWS Config
Amazon Macie
Amazon VPC Flow Logs
Amazon S3 Server Access Logs
ELB Access Logs
Lab 03: Monitor and Respond with AWS Config

Module 8: Processing Logs on AWS

Amazon Kinesis
Amazon Athena
Lab 04: Web Server Log Analysis

Module 9: Security Considerations: Hybrid Environments

AWS Site-to-Site and Client VPN connections
AWS Direct Connect
AWS Transit Gateway

Module 10: Out-Of-Region Protection

Amazon Route 53
AWS WAF
Amazon CloudFront
AWS Shield
AWS Firewall Manager
DDoS mitigation on AWS

Day 3

Module 11: Security Considerations: Serverless Environments

Amazon Cognito
Amazon API Gateway
AWS Lambda

Module 12: Threat Detection and Investigation

Amazon GuardDuty
AWS Security Hub
Amazon Detective

Module 13: Secrets Management on AWS

AWS KMS
AWS CloudHSM
AWS Secrets Manager
Lab 05: Using AWS KMS

Module 14: Automation and Security by Design

AWS CloudFormation
AWS Service Catalog
Lab 06: Security automation on AWS with AWS Service Catalog

Module 15: Account Management and Provisioning on AWS

AWS Organizations
AWS Control Tower
AWS SSO
AWS Directory Service
Lab 07: Federated Access with ADFS

Audience

This course is intended for:

Security engineers
Security architects
Information security

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
Completed AWS Security Essentials and Architecting on AWS instructor-led courses