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Cloud Security on AWS: Foundations

Identity, logging and guardrails for a defensible AWS account.

By LearnDefend Cloud Guild · Cloud Security

About this course

The defender's view of AWS: how IAM really decides access, why CloudTrail is your evidence, how misconfigurations become incidents, and the guardrails that stop a small mistake becoming a breach.

What you'll learn

  • Reason about IAM policies, roles and least privilege.
  • Use CloudTrail and config logs as investigation evidence.
  • Recognize the misconfigurations behind common cloud breaches.

Course outline

  1. 1The shared responsibility model
  2. 2IAM: policies, roles, least privilege
  3. 3Logging: CloudTrail as evidence
  4. 4Guardrails and detection

Prerequisites

  • Basic networking and comfort with the idea of cloud accounts.
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