Course Overview
AWS Security Essentials is a fundamental-level course covering core AWS security concepts and practices. It introduces the AWS Well-Architected Framework Security Pillar, the Shared Responsibility Model, AWS Global Infrastructure, compliance and governance, identity and access management, data protection, network security, edge security, DDoS mitigation, and compute resource protection.
The course also covers monitoring, detective controls, and incident response essentials, with hands-on labs focused on security policies and securing VPC resources with Security Groups.
Course Objective
- Identify security benefits and responsibilities of using the AWS Cloud
- Describe the AWS Shared Responsibility Model
- Describe the security considerations of AWS Global Infrastructure
- Explain AWS access control and identity management features
- Explain methods for protecting and encrypting data
- Describe methods for securing network access to AWS resources
- Describe approaches for protecting infrastructure and compute resources
- Explain AWS edge security and DDoS mitigation concepts
- Identify AWS services and controls used for security monitoring and detection
- Describe essential incident response practices
Pre-requisites
Working knowledge of IT security practices and infrastructure concepts, along with familiarity with cloud computing concepts.
Course Curriculum
