Overview What You Will Learn Curriculum Instructor

Course Overview

With the rise in cyber threats, including ransomware, identity theft, and data loss, understanding proper security within Amazon Web Services and hybrid cloud network infrastructures is increasingly important.  In this course, we will provide an overview of the security, compliance and identity solutions for AWS. 

This course will provide an understanding of the methodologies that are important in protecting identities and data within the cloud network and compute infrastructure and how they are used for strong security posture management.  

This course will prepare you for the AWS Certified Security Specialty (SCS-C01) exam with lectures, demos, and assessment questions to gain understanding of all objective areas needed for you to pass exam.

What You Will Learn

  • AWS IAM for cloud and hybrid identity
  • and the solutions used to protect internal and external user identities.
  • AWS network and application security solutions
  • and how they are used.
  • AWS platform protection for compute resources.
  • Security posture management and security operations in AWS.
  • All the objective areas that are required to pass the AWS Certified Security Specialty exam.

Program Curriculum

  • Exam Overview and Preparation
  • Design and Implement a Scalable Authorization and Authentication System to Access AWS Resources
  • Demo Exercise: Create and Assign an IAM Policy, S3 Bucket Policy, and Cross Region Replication
  • Troubleshoot an Authorization and Authentication System to Access AWS Resources
  • Demo/Exercise: Download and Review the Credential Report
  • $7 Million Cybersecurity Scholarship by EC-Council
  • Chapter 1 Quiz

  • Design Edge Security on AWS
  • Demo Exercise – Configure VPC with IGW, Subnets, and NAT GW
  • Design and Implement a Secure Network Infrastructure
  • Demo Exercise – Create a Custom Network ACL
  • Troubleshoot a Secure Network Infrastructure
  • Demo Exercise – Configure VPC Flows
  • Design and Implement Host-based Security
  • Demo Exercise – IPS/IDS in AWS Marketplace
  • Chapter 2 Quiz

  • Design and Implement Key Management and Use
  • Demo Exercise: Setup KMS Encryption on S3 Buckets
  • Troubleshoot Key Management
  • Demo Exercise: Troubleshoot S3 Bucket Permissions
  • Design and Implement a Data Encryption Solution for Data at Rest and Data in Transit
  • Demo Exercise: Using AWS Certificate Manager
  • Chapter 3 Quiz

  • Design and Implement a Logging Solution
  • Demo Exercise – Setup CloudTrail and CloudWatch
  • Troubleshoot Logging Solutions
  • Design and Implement Security Monitoring and Alerting
  • Demo Exercise – Using Inspector, Trusted Advisor, and Macie
  • Troubleshoot Security Monitoring and Alerting
  • Evaluate the Suspected Compromised Instance or Exposed Access Keys
  • Demo Exercise – Using GuardDuty and Security Hub
  • Chapter 9 Quiz
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Instructor

Dwayne Natwick Natwick

Dwayne Natwick is a Microsoft Certified Trainer and Microsoft MVP with over 30 years of experience in information technology and security design and architecture. He has more than 15 Azure and Microsoft 365 role-based certifications, including Microsoft 365 Security Administrator, Azure Security Engineer, Identity and Access Administrator, Information Protection Administrator, and Security, Compliance and Identity Fundamentals. He not only has these certifications, but he teaches these courses regularly with positive feedback and survey results. He also has the CISSP certification from ISC2. He has authored content, labs, and videos, and presents regularly at conferences and local user events.

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