Image Source: Cybr Website Target Audience: Beginners in cloud security
Course Level: Beginner
Price: $19.99
Platform: Cybr
Key Learning Outcomes:
- Gain the essential knowledge and skills to protect your AWS environments and resources.
- Understand core security concepts like Identity and Access Management (IAM), data access control and encryption, network and infrastructure security, and monitoring & logging.
- Learn how to configure security measures directly in the AWS Management Console.
- Earn a certificate of completion upon finishing the course.
Course Structure:
- 70 lessons
- Interactive diagrams
- Hands-on labs (including free-tier compatible options)
- Challenges to apply learned concepts
- Scenario-based learning using a sample multi-tier AWS architecture
Course Content Highlights:
- Infrastructure Security:
- AWS cloud architecture
- Security concerns with cloud architecture
- Regions and Availability Zones (AZs)
- Shared responsibility in the cloud
- VPC networks (incl. creating VPCs and subnets)
- Security Groups (SGs) and best practices
- Network Access Control Lists (NACLs)
- Elastic Load Balancers
- AWS WAF
- Identity and Access Management (IAM):
- Key concepts of IAM
- Getting started with IAM
- Creating IAM users and roles
- Assigning permissions with policies
- Using Identity Center AWS SSO
- Data Protection:
- Amazon S3 Bucket Protection
- Data protection in the cloud
- EBS and RDS data protection and encryption
- Key Management with AWS KMS
- S3 Bucket Policies vs. ACLs vs. IAM Policies
- Logging, Monitoring, and Incident Response:
- AWS Log Types and Auditing Options
- CloudTrail
- Amazon CloudWatch
- Security Automation with CloudWatch Logs and SNS
- Amazon GuardDuty
- AWS Config
- AWS Systems Manager
- Amazon Detective
- Amazon Inspector
- Amazon Macie
- AWS Security Hub
Instructors:
- Konstantinos Papapanagiotou (Cyber Security Consultant with 19+ years experience)
- Christophe Limpalair (Founder of Cybr, Author of multiple AWS courses)
Additional Resources:
- Course includes a certificate of completion
- Production quality content with a focus on practical skills
- Money-back guarantee (details likely on Cybr website)
Overall, this course seems like a well-rounded introduction to AWS security for beginners. The combination of video lectures, hands-on labs, and interactive elements makes it an engaging learning experience.