AWS Certified Security Specialist, Part 2 of 9: Vulnerability and Cloudwatch
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AWS Certified Security Specialist, Part 2 of 9: Vulnerability and Cloudwatch

LearnNow Online
Updated Sep 10, 2019

Course description

Amazon Web Services Certified Security Specialty is an exam intended to validate an individuals experience in a security role with at least two years of hands-on experience securing AWS and 5 years or more in IT security experience designing and implementing security solutions. This course covers Vulnerability exploit payload, AWS Inspector, Firewalls overview, EC2 Run Command and understanding Cloudwatch Logs.

Each LearnNowOnline training course is made up of Modules (typically an hour in length). Within each module there are Topics (typically 15-30 minutes each) and Subtopics (typically 2-5 minutes each). There is a Post Exam for each Module that must be passed with a score of 70% or higher to successfully and fully complete the course.


Prerequisites

two years of hands-on experience securing AWS and 5 years or more in IT security experience designing and implementing security solutions


Meet the expert

Zeal Vora

Zeal works primarily as a Cloud Security Consultant guiding organizations to re-build their infrastructure with security in mind. Zeal also holds more then 13+ certifications ranging from RedHat Certified Architect to AWS Security.

Video Runtime

137 Minutes

Time to complete

157 Minutes

Course Outline

Vulnerabilty and Cloudwatch

Vulnerability Exploit Payload (30:18)

  • Introduction (00:08)
  • Vulnerability Exploit Payload (05:26)
  • Hacking inside a test farm (07:33)
  • Automated Vulnerability Scanners (08:23)
  • Vulnerabilities Exposures ans CVSS (08:38)
  • Summary (00:08)

Intro AWS Inspector (31:41)

  • Introduction (00:08)
  • AWS Inspector (07:25)
  • AWS Inspector configuration (06:42)
  • Inspector Nessus CVE scans (09:04)
  • Best Practices in Vulnerability Assessments (08:12)
  • Summary (00:08)

Firewalls Overview (30:49)

  • Introduction (00:08)
  • Overview of Layer 7 Firewalls (06:48)
  • AWS WAF (13:06)
  • AWS WAF Implementation (10:38)
  • Summary (00:08)

EC2 Run Command (22:59)

  • Introduction (00:08)
  • Understanding EC2 Run Command (04:22)
  • Deploying our first Run Command (06:06)
  • Patch Compliance with SSM (03:38)
  • EC2 Systems Manager Parameter Store (08:36)
  • Summary (00:08)

Cloudwatch Logs (21:31)

  • Introduction (00:08)
  • Understanding CloudWatch Logs (04:15)
  • Pushing Linux system logs to CloudWatch (07:52)
  • CloudWatch Events (09:07)
  • Summary (00:08)
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