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SkillSoft Explore Course

IT Skills     Cloud Computing and Virtualization     Amazon     AWS Certified Developer - Associate 2021
Ensuring the security of your operating systems and applications is a necessary preventative measure. If you're responsible for maintaining AWS applications, you need to know the methods and tools involved in securing them. Use this course to become familiar with the security controls available in AWS to protect its services.
Learn how security policies and user permissions manage access to resources. See what's meant by a host-based intrusion detection system (HIDS) and a host-based intrusion prevention system (HIPS). And find out how to achieve application security using hardened baselines.
Moving on, study methods for monitoring and endpoint security. Then examine how AWS Firewall Manager, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Detective, AWS Audit Manager, and AWS Backup work.
This course helps prepare learners for the AWS Certified Developer - Associate 2021 certification exam. Upon completion, you'll know what AWS security controls you should use.

Objectives

AWS Developer Associate 2021: Security Controls

  • discover the key concepts covered in this course
  • identify cloud security policies including password, lockout, blacklisting, and whitelisting and summarize how they're used to enforce security
  • describe how cloud user permissions and roles are used to manage access to resources
  • define host-based intrusion detection systems (HIDS) and host-based intrusion prevention systems (HIPS)
  • outline how to achieve application security using hardened baselines
  • outline methods for monitoring file integrity, logs, and events
  • describe how features such as encryption can be applied to API endpoints, applications, the OS, and storage and file systems to increase security
  • describe the features, components, capabilities, and requirements applicable when working with AWS Firewall Manager
  • describe what Amazon API Gateway is used for and considerations involved when using it
  • outline how Amazon GuardDuty provides continuous security monitoring, with reference to terminology and concepts pertaining to this service
  • summarize how Amazon Detective can be used to analyze, investigate, and identify the root cause of security findings or suspicious activities and detail some usage considerations and prerequisites
  • describe what AWS Audit Manager can be used for, how it works, and how you would set it up
  • describe the features of AWS Backup, name the services that work with it, and detail considerations for its use
  • summarize the key concepts covered in this course