Architecting for Security on AWS
By Ben Piper
Course info
Course info
Description
AWS security architects need to understand how to build security into every AWS deployment at every level. In this course, Architecting for Security on AWS, you’ll learn how to secure your data and your AWS services and resources at multiple levels using a defense-in-depth approach. First, you'll learn how to protect your AWS credentials using identity and access management. Next, you'll see how to capture and analyze logs using CloudTrail, CloudWatch, and Athena. Finally, you'll learn how to implement network and instance security, encrypt data at rest and in-transit, and set up data backup, replication, and recovery. After finishing this course, you'll be ready to granularly control access to your AWS resources.
About the author
Ben Piper is an IT consultant and author of the "AWS Certified Solutions Architect Study Guide: Associate SAA-C01 Exam", "AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Study Guide: CLF-C01 Exam", and "Learn Cisco Network Administration in a Month of Lunches". You can contact Ben by visiting his website, benpiper.com.
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Course Overview
(Music playing) Hi everyone, my name Ben Piper, and welcome to my course, Architecting for Security on AWS. I'm an AWS certified Solutions Architect and author. Security is about protecting your valuable data and the systems that store and retrieve that data. As an AWS architect, you need to understand how to build security into every AWS deployment at every level. In this course, you're going to learn how to secure your data and your AWS services and resources at multiple levels using a defense in-depth approach. Some of the major topics that we will cover include identity and access management, capturing and analyzing security logs, network and instance security, data encryption, and backup, replication, and recovery. By the end of this course, you'll know how to secure your data stored in AWS, as well as your AWS services and resources. Before beginning the course, you should have six months of experience with AWS in a technical capacity. I hope you'll join me on this journey to learn AWS security with the Architecting for Security on AWS course, only on Pluralsight.