AWS Security for Non-Majors – Detect

Security teams generate a lot of alerts. This two-day workshop is about making sense of them.

Get introduced to AWS’s core detection services. Learn how they work, what they catch, and how they feed into one another. Explore AWS tools Security Hub and Inspector — the two services most directly relevant to compliance posture and vulnerability management on campus. Participants will learn how to enable and configure detection across their environment, understand what findings mean and how to prioritize them, and gain a clear picture of what their security posture actually looks like.

This course is the second in a series of three security courses. We encourage you to review AWS Security Foundations for Non-Majors – Protect | July 13 – Aug 7 and AWS Security for Non-Majors – Respond | Oct 14-15 and consider participating in the whole series.

Skill Level and Target Audience

• Beginner to intermediate
• Security professionals; Campus cloud administrators; System administrators; IT professionals with minimal working knowledge of AWS who want to gain a foundational understanding of AWS security and protection concepts

Course Objectives:

By the end of this course, participants will be able to enable, configure, and interpret AWS detection services to assess the security posture of their environment and prioritize findings for action.

Participants will be able to:

• Enable and configure GuardDuty, Macie, Inspector, and Security Hub
• Understand what each detection service monitors and what kinds of findings it generates
• Navigate Security Hub to assess overall security posture and compliance against standards
• Run Inspector vulnerability scans and interpret findings by severity
• Triage and prioritize security findings across an environment
• Understand how detection services feed into an incident response workflow

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