Professional Training · Security Track
Security Engineering on AWS
A three-day course on securing workloads with the AWS security services. It covers the shared security responsibility model, architecting infrastructure against common threats, encrypting data at rest and in transit, configuring authentication for resources and applications, capturing and analysing logs to understand events, running automated and repeatable security checks, and identifying and mitigating threats as they appear.
Authorised Instructors
Eric Tai
Head, Technology
- Security – Specialty
- DevOps Engineer – Professional
- Solutions Architect – Professional
- CloudOps Engineer – Associate
- +4 more
Hui Liang
Chief Digital Officer
- Security – Specialty
- Generative AI Developer – Professional
- Solutions Architect – Professional
- CloudOps Engineer – Associate
- +5 more
Any of these AWS Authorised Instructors may deliver this class, depending on the scheduled run. Trainers confirmed on enrolment.
Who Should Attend
- Security Engineers: Engineers hardening and defending AWS environments.
- Security Architects: Architects embedding security controls into AWS designs.
- Cloud Architects: Architects accountable for the security of their designs.
- Cloud Operators: Operators maintaining secure configurations day to day.
- Information Security Professionals: Specialists extending their remit to AWS.
Prerequisites
This is an intermediate course. To get the most from it, you should have:
Completion of AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials, or equivalent knowledge of AWS fundamentals.
Completion of AWS Security Essentials, or an equivalent grounding in AWS security concepts.
Completion of Architecting on AWS, or equivalent AWS design and architecture experience.
Working knowledge of IT security practices and infrastructure concepts.
Learning Objectives
In this course, you will learn to:
Apply shared responsibility: Use the AWS shared security responsibility model in practice.
Architect against threats: Design application infrastructure protected from common attacks.
Encrypt data: Protect data at rest and in transit with appropriate encryption.
Control authentication: Configure resource and application authentication on AWS.
Analyse logs: Capture, monitor, process and analyse logs to understand security events.
Assess and remediate: Run automated security checks and perform assessments for vulnerability patching.
Certification
This course maps to the AWS Certified Security – Specialty exam, the benchmark credential for cloud security professionals. As an AWS Advanced Tier Authorised Training Partner, we combine hands-on security labs with exam-focused review.
The examination evaluates your competency across these domains:
Detection: 16% of scored content.
Incident Response: 14% of scored content.
Infrastructure Security: 18% of scored content.
Identity and Access Management: 20% of scored content.
Data Protection: 18% of scored content.
Security Foundations and Governance: 14% of scored content.
- Format
- 65 questions; multiple choice or multiple response
- Type
- Specialty level certification
- Delivery Method
- Pearson VUE testing center or online proctored exam
- Time Duration
- 170 minutes
- Investment
- 300 USD
Pricing on Request
- Duration
- 3 Days
- Level
- Intermediate
- Certification
- AWS Certified Security – Specialty
In-person in Kuala Lumpur or live virtual. Team & enterprise rates available.
