AWS Certified Security – Specialty – Al-Khawarizmi Academy

About Course

Specialty-level AWS credential for security practitioners: threat detection, logging, infrastructure security, identity and data protection across an AWS environment.

About 28 hours.

Course Content

Module 1: Threat detection and incident response

GuardDuty, Detective and Security Hub
Automated incident response playbooks
Forensics on a compromised AWS account

AWS Certified Security – Specialty

About Course

Course Content

Module 1: Threat detection and incident response

GuardDuty, Detective and Security Hub

Automated incident response playbooks

Forensics on a compromised AWS account

Module 2: Security logging and monitoring

CloudTrail deep dive

VPC Flow Logs and traffic analysis

Centralised security monitoring at scale

Module 3: Infrastructure security

Network security architecture on AWS

Host and container hardening

Edge protection with WAF and Shield

Module 4: Identity and access management

IAM policy evaluation logic

Federation and identity centre

Permission boundaries and SCPs

Module 5: Data protection and exam prep

KMS key policies and envelope encryption

Data classification and Macie

65-question timed practice exam