Currently, the average cost of a security breach can be upwards of $4 million. AWS Security Best Practices provides an overview of some of the industry best practices for using AWS security and control types.
This course helps you understand your responsibilities while providing valuable guidelines for how to keep your workload safe and secure. You will learn how to secure your network infrastructure using sound design options. You will also learn how you can harden your compute resources and manage them securely. Finally, by understanding AWS monitoring and alerting, you can detect and alert on suspicious events to help you quickly begin the response process in the event of a potential compromise.
This course includes presentations, demonstrations, and hands-on labs.
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What you’ll learn
This course is designed to teach participants how to:
Design and implement a secure network infrastructure
Design and implement compute security
Design and implement a logging solution
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Ahead of the Technology Curve
No matter your chosen technologies or platforms, we can help you stay one step ahead.
Train Anywhere
From our state-of-the-art classrooms to telepresence to your offices, our instructor-led training caters to your needs.
Track Record
We have a 30-year history of driving innovative, award-winning learning solutions.
More Courses, More Often
When you train with Lumify Work you get more courses, more often, in more locations, and from more vendors.
Quality Instructors and Content
Expert instructors with real world experience and the latest vendor-approved in-depth course content.
Partner-Preferred Supplier
Chosen and awarded by the world's leading vendors as preferred training partner.
Ahead of the Technology Curve
No matter your chosen technologies or platforms, we can help you stay one step ahead.
Train Anywhere
From our state-of-the-art classrooms to telepresence to your offices, our instructor-led training caters to your needs.
Track Record
We have a 30-year history of driving innovative, award-winning learning solutions.
More Courses, More Often
When you train with Lumify Work you get more courses, more often, in more locations, and from more vendors.
Who is the course for?
This course is intended for:
Solutions architects, cloud engineers, including security engineers, delivery and implementation engineers, professional services, and Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE).
We can also deliver and customise this training course for larger groups – saving your organisation time, money and resources. For more information, please contact us on 1800 U LEARN (1800 853 276)
Course subjects
Module 1: AWS Security Overview
Shared responsibility model
Customer challenges
Frameworks and standards
Establishing best practices
Compliance in AWS
Module 2: Securing the Network
Flexible and secure
Security inside the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
Security services
Third-party security solutions
Lab 1: Controlling the Network
Create a three-security zone network infrastructure.
Implement network segmentation using security groups, Network Access Control Lists (NACLs), and public and private subnets.
Monitor network traffic to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances using VPC flow logs.
Module 3: Amazon EC2 Security
Compute hardening
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) encryption
Secure management and maintenance
Detecting vulnerabilities
Using AWS Marketplace
Lab 2: Securing the starting point (EC2)
Create a custom Amazon Machine Image (AMI).
Deploy a new EC2 instance from a custom AMI.
Patch an EC2 instance using AWS Systems Manager.
Encrypt an EBS volume.
Understand how EBS encryption works and how it impacts other operations.
Use security groups to limit traffic between EC2 instances to only that which is encrypted
Module 4: Monitoring and Alerting
Logging network traffic
Logging user and Application Programming Interface (API) traffic
Visibility with Amazon CloudWatch
Enhancing monitoring and alerting
Verifying your AWS environment
Lab 3: Security Monitoring
Configure an Amazon Linux 2 instance to send log files to Amazon CloudWatch.
Create Amazon CloudWatch alarms and notifications to monitor for failed login attempts.
Create Amazon CloudWatch alarms to monitor network traffic through a Network Address Translation (NAT) gateway
Please note: This is an emerging technology course. Course outline is subject to change as needed.
Prerequisites
Before attending this course, participants should have completed the following:
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