Auditing AWS Environments for Security and Best Practices
AWS is the most popular cloud hosting infrastructure in the world. This course will cover security and best practices for the most commonly used services, including IAM, VPC, EC2, EBS, and S3.
What you'll learn
Taking ownership of an Amazon Web Services account can be a daunting task. In this course, Auditing AWS for Security and Best Practices, you'll learn how to audit your AWS services, including command-line tools and scripts to help automate your effort. First, you will learn how to look for security vulnerabilities. Next, you'll learn how to take an inventory of your resources. Finally, you'll learn about best practices for these services and how to apply them. When you're finished with this course, you will have learned the basics needed to implement security and architectural best practices in five of the most popular AWS offerings: IAM, VPC, EC2, EBS, and S3. Software required: AWS CLI
Table of contents
- Course Introduction 2m
- IAM User Objects 4m
- Demo: IAM User Access Advisor 2m
- IAM Group Objects 1m
- Demo: IAM Group Access Advisor 2m
- IAM Role Objects 2m
- Demo: IAM Role Access Advisor 2m
- IAM Policy Objects 2m
- Demo: IAM Policy Access Advisor 3m
- Complex and Summary Examples 1m
- Demo: IAM Credential Report 2m
- Summary 1m
- Module Introduction 2m
- VPC Configuration 3m
- VPC Options 2m
- Ingress/Egress Points Overview 1m
- Internet Gateway 1m
- VPN Gateway 1m
- AWS Direct Connect 1m
- VPC Peering Connections 1m
- VPC Endpoints 1m
- EC2 ClassicLink 2m
- Demo: Ingress/Egress Points 4m
- Security Features Overview 1m
- Route Tables 1m
- Network Access Control Lists 1m
- VPC Flow Logs 1m
- Demo: VPC Security Features 3m
- Module Summary 1m
- Introduction 1m
- Shared Responsibility Security Model 2m
- Hypervisor and Keypairs 2m
- Security Group Function and Best Practices 1m
- Security Group Audit Script Example 4m
- Demo: AWS Config and Trusted Advisor 4m
- Introduction: Inventory And Tagging 1m
- CLI Inventory Examples 2m
- Tag Function and Best Practices 1m
- Tag Audit Script and Trusted Advisor 2m
- Demo: EC2 Dashboard Filters 2m
- Module Summary 1m