Securing Data and Secrets on AWS

Preparing to take the AWS Certified Security – Specialty exam? This course will teach you best practices for encryption, key management, and securing information on AWS with a particular emphasis on the Data Protection domain objectives of the exam.

AWS provides several different services that work together to help you protect your sensitive information. In this course, Securing Data and Secrets on AWS, you’ll learn how to leverage these services to implement secure architectures for applications and data storage on AWS. First, you’ll explore best practices for encryption and key management. Next, you’ll discover how to properly secure secrets such as parameters in your application’s source code. Finally, you’ll learn how to protect sensitive data using techniques such as cross-region replication and proactively monitor your data for security issues using Amazon Macie. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of a security engineer needed to answer questions from the “Data Protection” domain of the AWS Certified Security – Specialty exam.