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Cyber Arena

Detecting and Mitigating AWS Threats Programme

Tech Centre Cyber Arena Detecting and Mitigating AWS Threats Programme

Programme Overview

This programme consists of two parts. Part 1 focuses on identifying vulnerabilities in AWS through penetration testing.
Participants will learn how to assess the security of not only core AWS resources such as EC2 and S3, but also a broader range of AWS services that are often overlooked during penetration testing, from serverless infrastructure to automated deployment pipelines.
Part 2 focuses on threat detection, mitigation, and the automation of incident response in AWS.

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Programme Benefits
Grasp essential cloud security principles like least privilege access, identity federation, and secure authorisation methods
Understand key AWS services, architecture, and how cloud components work together in a secure environment
Configure local machine with Python, AWS CLI, credentials, and virtual environments for cloud development, learn to debug, validate, and refine Python scripts to ensure secure and reliable automation
Participants get one year access to learning videos and e-books
Who is the Programme for?

This programme is intended for penetration testers who work in Cloud security, Cloud Security Engineers, Cloud Engineers and people with IT responsibilities who use AWS to deliver services or applications and want to understand how to use AWS tools, services and concepts to secure organisation’s software.

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* Please note: This programme is available only to corporate groups. Individual signups are not eligible.
Learning Modules

Module 1: Introduction
This Module provides the introduction towards pentesting in the cloud

Module 2: Pentesting in the Cloud
This Module describes cloud computing service models and AWS pentesting policy

Module 3: Setting up lab on AWS
This Module helps participants to install Linux operating system to run security tools

Module 4: Pentesting AWS EC2
Full cycle of pentesting EC2

Module 5: Pentesting AWS S3
Full cycle of pentesting S3

Module 6: Introduction to AWS Security automation
This Module will set the stage for the course by explaining the importance of automating security in AWS and how Python can be used to meet these goals. It will cover the fundamental concepts and tools required for the course and ensure participants are prepared for the hands-on exercises.

Module 7: Security Pillar
This Module will cover the process of managing IAM Users according to standards and AWS best practices

Module 8: Reliability Pillar
In this Module, participants will learn how to automate security tasks that increase the reliability of workloads on AWS. 

Module 9: Performance Efficiency & Sustainability Pillar
This Module seeks to discover and explore shared areas of concern between these 3 pillars within the context of the Well-Architected Framework. Gain hands-on experience with designing and building an automated solution that supports multiple pillars.

Module 10: Cost Optimisation Pillar
This Module is about how to automate best practices that can support the Cost Optimisation  pillar of the Well-Architected Framework.

Module 11: Operational Excellence Pillar
This final Module focuses on the Operational Excellence and Security Pillars from the AWS Well-Architected framework and explores ways to automate their best practices with Python. 

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