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Amazon GuardDuty Activation and CloudTrail Config Logging

Establish AWS security monitoring by implementing VPC Flow Logs, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, and Config. This course will teach you to build a baseline for security telemetry for threat detection and compliance monitoring.

Intermediate
1h 11m
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Created by Mario Mercado

Last Updated Sep 30, 2025

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Amazon GuardDuty Activation and CloudTrail Config Logging

Establish AWS security monitoring by implementing VPC Flow Logs, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, and Config. This course will teach you to build a baseline for security telemetry for threat detection and compliance monitoring.

Intermediate
1h 11m
(0)

Created by Mario Mercado

Last Updated Sep 30, 2025

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What you'll learn

As AWS professionals, building a baseline for security monitoring is critical for protecting your environment. In this course, Amazon GuardDuty Activation and CloudTrail Config Logging, you'll gain the ability to implement comprehensive security telemetry across your AWS infrastructure. First, you'll explore different types of logs that play an important role in security. Next, you'll implement GuardDuty for threat detection in the AWS account, taking advantage of the VPC Flow Logs and CloudTrail logs enabled before. Finally, you'll learn how to use AWS Config for continuous compliance monitoring on AWS resources with both managed and custom rules. When you're finished with this course, you'll have the skills and knowledge of AWS security logging and monitoring services needed to build a baseline for security telemetry for threat detection and compliance.

Amazon GuardDuty Activation and CloudTrail Config Logging
Intermediate
1h 11m
(0)
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Mario Mercado - Pluralsight course - Amazon GuardDuty Activation and CloudTrail Config Logging
Mario Mercado
13 courses 4.5 author rating 11 ratings

Experienced engineer in cloud passionate about teaching and sharing knowledge with the community. He's an AWS Community Builder and the author of "A Practical Guide to EKS" in A Cloud Guru.

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