Overview
Learn how to efficiently use AWS security services to stay secure in the AWS cloud.
This AWS-SEC: Security Engineering on AWS course:
- demonstrates how to efficiently use AWS security services to stay secure in the AWS Cloud
- focuses on the security practices that AWS recommends for enhancing the security of your data and systems in the cloud
- prepares learners for the AWS Certified Security – Specialty certification course
- highlights the security features of AWS key services including compute, storage, networking, and database services.
Attendees will also learn how to leverage AWS services and tools for automation, continuous monitoring and logging, and responding to security incidents.
Kornerstone is an AWS Authorized Training Partner to offer, deliver, and/or incorporate official AWS Training, including classroom and digital offerings.
Why Choose KORNERSTONE
- Accredited, practitioner-led, expert certificate trainers to provide high quality training
- Official training material included
- Practical, scenario-based learning – focus on application, not just theory
- Excellent Passing Rate
Skills Covered
In this course, you will learn how to:
- Assimilate and leverage the AWS shared security responsibility model
- Architect and build AWS application infrastructures that are protected against the most common security threats
- Protect data at rest and in transit with encryption
- Apply security checks and analyses in an automated and reproducible manner
- Configure authentication for resources and applications in the AWS Cloud
- Gain insight into events by capturing, monitoring, processing, and analyzing logs
- Identify and mitigate incoming threats against applications and data
- Perform security assessments to ensure that common vulnerabilities are patched and security best practices are applied
Prerequisites
We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:
- AWS-CLDPE: AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials
- AWS-SE: AWS Security Fundamentals
- AWS-ARC: Architecting on AWS
- Working knowledge of IT security practices and infrastructure concepts
- Familiarity with cloud computing concepts
Target Audience
This course is designed for security engineers, security architects, cloud architects, and cloud operators working across all global segments who would like to learn more about how to use AWS security services including AWS Control Tower, AWS Secrets Manager, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon GuardDuty, and more, to take their security operations to the next level and to stay secure in the AWS Cloud.
Job roles:
- Security engineers
- Security architects
- Information security
Course Curriculum
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
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
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
Dates & Locations
October 20, 2026 - October 22, 2026
October 20, 2026 - October 22, 2026
Exam & Certification
AWS Certified Security – Specialty (SCS-C03)
Validate your knowledge and advanced technical skills in securing workloads and architectures on AWS.
This credential helps organizations identify and develop talent with critical skills for implementing cloud initiatives. Earning the AWS Certified Security – Specialty certification validates expertise in securing data and workloads in the AWS Cloud.
