This course focuses on securing AWS environments through best-practice architecture, encryption, monitoring, and automation. Participants gain skills in designing resilient, compliant cloud infrastructures while using AWS-native security services. Real-world labs cover threat detection, logging, and secure access configurations.
Learning Outcomes:
Understand the AWS shared responsibility model and threat landscape.
Design secure architectures across compute, storage, and networking.
Protect data at rest and in transit using AWS encryption tools.
Monitor and investigate threats using AWS security services.
Automate compliance and incident response using infrastructure as code.
Key Topics:
IAM policies, MFA, and identity analysis tools
Data protection: KMS, Secrets Manager, Amazon S3, RDS, Glacier
Network and VPC security, load balancing and DDoS mitigation
GuardDuty, AWS Security Hub, Amazon Detective
Logging and analysis: CloudWatch, Config, Macie, Athena
Automation with CloudFormation and Service Catalog
Certification preparation for AWS Certified Security – Specialty certification
Exam Details
This course is designed to build participants’ understanding of key concepts and domains covered in the AWS Certified Security - Specialty.
Participants will be prepared to attempt the certification exam, which assesses competencies in securing AWS infrastructure, encryption, incident response, and compliance practices.
To maximise success, participants are strongly encouraged to complement the course with additional self-study, revision of course materials, and dedicated practice before attempting the exam.
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