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Security Engineering on AWS with AWS Jam

Written by Gemma Corrado on . Posted in AWS Training, Training.

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Security Engineering on AWS with AWS Jam

Please find our upcoming course dates at the end of this page!

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This 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.

The final day is an AWS Jam, a gamified event, with teams competing to score points by completing a series of challenges according to established best practices based on concepts covered in the course. You get to experience a wide range of AWS services in a series of real-world scenarios that represent common operational and troubleshooting tasks. The end result is developing, enhancing, and validating your skillsets in the AWS Cloud through real-world problem solving, exploring new services, features, and understanding how they interoperate.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

In this course, you will learn to:

  • 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
  • Work in a team environment to solve real AWS use-case challenges in an AWS Jam

INTENDED AUDIENCE

This course is intended for experienced

  • Security Engineers
  • Security Architects
  • Information Security Professionals

PREREQUISITES

We recommend that attendees of this course have:

ACTIVITIES

This course includes:

  • presentations
  • demonstrations
  • hands-on labs
  • team-based gamified challenge

COURSE DURATION / PRICE

  • 4 Days
  • € 3,175.00 (excl. tax) per person (DE)

Course outline

  • 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

  • Day 4

    • AWS Jam
      • Participate in team-based challenges in a real AWS environment
      • Compete with your colleagues in a gamified, hands-on learning experience
      • Apply your learning from the course on various AWS services

IMPORTANT: Please bring your notebook (Windows, Linux or Mac) to our training. If this is not possible, please contact us in advance.

Course materials are in English, on request also in German (if available).
The course language is German, on request also in English.

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AWS Certified Security – Specialty

Written by Annika Thiemann on . Posted in AWS Training, Certifications, Training.

Who should take this exam?

AWS Certified Security – Specialty is intended for individuals who perform a security role and have at least two years of hands-on experience securing AWS workloads. Before you take this exam, we recommend you have:

  • Five years of IT security experience in designing and implementing security solutions and at least two years of hands-on experience in securing AWS workloads
  • Working knowledge of AWS security services and features of services to provide a secure production environment and an understanding of security operations and risks
  • Knowledge of the AWS shared responsibility model and its application; security controls for workloads on AWS; logging and monitoring strategies; cloud security threat models; patch management and security automation; ways to enhance AWS security services with third-party tools and services; and disaster recovery controls, including BCP and backups, encryption, access control, and data retention
  • Understanding of specialized data classifications and AWS data protection mechanisms, data-encryption methods and AWS mechanisms to implement them, and secure internet protocols and AWS mechanisms to implement them
  • Ability to make tradeoff decisions with regard to cost, security, and deployment complexity to meet a set of application requirements

Prerequisites

To earn this certification, you’ll need to take and pass the AWS Certified Security – Specialty exam. The exam features a combination of two question formats: multiple choice and multiple response. Additional information, such as the exam content outline and passing score, is in the exam guide.

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AWS-Certified-Security – Specialty-Exam

Recertification

AWS certifications are valid for three years. If you want to maintain your AWS certification status, you must periodically demonstrate your expertise through recertification. Recertification strengthens the overall value of your AWS certification and demonstrates to customers and employers that your credential includes current AWS knowledge, competencies, and AWS best practices.

Recertification for Specialty Certifications

Take the current Specialty exam

You can take the current Specialty exam for the certification you already have. For example, if you are an AWS Certified Security – Specialist, you can take the current AWS Certified Security – Specialty exam to recertify. You can use your 50% discount voucher from the Benefits section of your AWS Certification account to re-certify or use it for any future certification exams you want to take.

AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty

Written by Annika Thiemann on . Posted in AWS Training, Certifications, Training.

Who should take this exam?

AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty is intended for individuals who perform a development or data science role and have more than one year of experience developing, architecting, or running machine learning/deep learning workloads in the AWS Cloud. Before you take this exam, we recommend you have:

  • At least two years of hands-on experience developing, architecting, and running ML or deep learning workloads in the AWS Cloud
  • Ability to express the intuition behind basic ML algorithms
  • Experience performing basic hyperparameter optimization
  • Experience with ML and deep learning frameworks
  • Ability to follow model-training, deployment, and operational best practices

Prerequisites

To earn this certification, you’ll need to take and pass the AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty exam. The exam features a combination of two question formats: multiple choice and multiple response. Additional information, such as the exam content outline and passing score, is in the exam guide.

Recommended training for this certification

Data Scientist

Developer

Optional:

  • Math for Machine Learning (elearning)
  • Linear and Logistic Regression (elearning)
  • Speaking Of : Machine Translation and NLP (elearning)
  • Seeing Clearly: Computer Vision Theory (elearning)

Exams

AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty exam

Recertification

AWS Certifications are valid for three years. To maintain your AWS Certified status, we require you to periodically demonstrate your continued expertise though a process called recertification. Recertification helps strengthen the overall value of your AWS Certification and shows individuals and employers that your credential covers the latest AWS knowledge, skills, and best practices.

Recertification for the Specialty certification

Take the current Specialty exam

You can take the current Specialty exam for the certification you already have. For example, if you are an AWS Certified Security – Specialist, you can retake the current AWS Certified Security – Specialty exam to recertify. You can use your 50% discount voucher from the Benefits section of your AWS Certification account to recertify or apply it to any future certification exam you wish to pursue.

AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty

Written by Annika Thiemann on . Posted in AWS Training, Certifications, Training.

Who should take this exam?

AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty is intended for individuals who perform complex networking tasks with five years of hands-on experience architecting and implementing network solutions. Before you take this exam, we recommend you have:

  • Professional experience using AWS technology, AWS security best practices, AWS storage options and their underlying consistency models, and AWS networking nuances and how they relate to the integration of AWS services.
  • Knowledge of advanced networking architectures and interconnectivity options [e.g., IP VPN, multiprotocol label switching (MPLS), virtual private LAN service (VPLS)].
  • Familiarity with the development of automation scripts and tools. This should include the design, implementation, and optimization of the following: Routing architectures (including static and dynamic); multi-region solutions for a global enterprise; highly available connectivity solutions (e.g., AWS Direct Connect, VPN).
  • Knowledge of CIDR and sub-netting (IPv4 and IPv6); IPv6 transition challenges; and generic solutions for network security features, including AWS WAF, intrusion detection systems (IDS), intrusion prevention systems (IPS), DDoS protection, and economic denial of service/sustainability (EDoS).

Prerequisites

To earn this certification, you’ll need to take and pass the AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty exam. The exam features a combination of two question formats: multiple choice and multiple response. Additional information, such as the exam content outline and passing score, is in the exam guide.

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Recertification

AWS Certifications are valid for three years. To maintain your AWS Certified status, we require you to periodically demonstrate your continued expertise though a process called recertification. Recertification helps strengthen the overall value of your AWS Certification and shows individuals and employers that your credential covers the latest AWS knowledge, skills, and best practices.

Recertification for the Specialty certification

Take the Current Specialty exam

You can take the current Specialty exam for the certification you already have. For example, if you are an AWS Certified Security – Specialist, you can retake the current AWS Certified Security – Specialty exam to recertify. You can use your 50% discount voucher from the Benefits section of your AWS Certification account to recertify or apply it to any future certification exam you wish to pursue.

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional

Written by Annika Thiemann on . Posted in AWS Training, Certifications, Training.

Who should take this exam?

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional is intended for individuals with two or more years of experience provisioning, operating, and managing AWS environments. Before you take this exam, we recommend you have:
  • Experience developing code in at least one high-level programming language; building highly automated infrastructures; and administering operating systems
  • Understanding of modern development and operations processes and methodologies
  • Ability to implement and manage continuous delivery systems and methodologies on AWS
  • Ability to implement and automate security controls, governance processes, and compliance validation
  • Ability to define and deploy monitoring, metrics, and logging systems on AWS

Prerequisites

To earn this certification, you’ll need to take and pass the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional exam. The exam features a combination of two question formats: multiple choice and multiple response. Additional information, such as the exam content outline and passing score, is in the exam guide.

Recommended training

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AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional

Recertification

AWS Certifications are valid for three years. To maintain your AWS Certified status, we require you to periodically demonstrate your continued expertise though a process called recertification. Recertification helps strengthen the overall value of your AWS Certification and shows individuals and employers that your credential covers the latest AWS knowledge, skills, and best practices.

Recertification for the Professional certification

Take the current Professional exam

You can take the current Professional exam for the certification you already have. For example, if you are an AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional , you can retake the current AWS Certified Security – Specialty exam to recertify. You can use your 50% discount voucher from the Benefits section of your AWS Certification account to recertify or apply it to any future certification exam you wish to pursue.