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Skill

AWS Security: Protective Controls

April 2019 with Bart Castle

In this AWS course, trainer Bart Castle will teach you about protective controls. You'll learn about network security, host security, and the different categories of AWS services: infrastructure services, container services, and abstracted services.

Recommended Experience

A basic understanding of IT services and their uses in the AWS Cloud platform is recommended, but not required.
Six months of experience using the AWS Cloud is recommended, but not required.

Recommended Equipment

PC, MAC, or Linux system with Internet access
Free tier (or higher) account with AWS

Related Certifications

None

Related Job Functions

IT Professional
System Administrator
Network Administrator
System Engineer
Network Engineer

Bart Castle has been a CBT Nuggets trainer since 2018 and has more than a decade of cloud computing experience. He has received all the core Amazon Web Services certifications, and he's one of the few instructors worldwide to earn AWS Authorized Instructor Champion status.

Bart Castle — Bart Castle
Trainer

Videos in this skill

1. Overview (0:32)
2. Protective Controls (5:47)
3. Generating EC2 Key Pairs (8:20)
4. Extending EC2 Key Pairs to New Users (5:22)
5. EC2 Key Pair Rotation and Maintenance (6:30)
6. Elastic Network Interface Concepts (5:25)
7. Public and Private Subnets (5:27)
8. Internet Access Checklist (7:00)
9. Internal VPC Traffic Flow (5:58)
10. Public Web Server: Creating a VPC (5:20)
11. Public Web Server: Internet Gateway and Subnet (6:28)
12. Public Web Server: Routing (7:12)
13. Public Web Server: Security Group and Rules (5:18)
14. Public Web Server: Elastic Network Interface and IP Addresses (6:51)
15. Public Web Server: Launching the Server (6:12)
16. Private Database: Private Subnet (6:29)
17. Private Database: NAT Gateway Deployment (7:59)
18. Private Database: Creating a Security Group (6:26)
19. Management Network (7:27)
20. Management Network: SSH JumpBox (3:30)
21. Management Network: Bridge ENIs (7:08)
22. Management Network: Testing ENI (3:44)
23. Management Network: SSH Connection Test (6:35)
24. EC2-Based Network Security Tools (4:14)
25. Multi-VPC and Multi-Account Traffic Filtering (4:55)
26. Introducing Transit Gateway (5:18)
27. Configuring Transit Gateway (4:53)
28. Attaching a Shared Transit Gateway (4:38)
29. Denial of Service Attacks and OSI Layers (4:00)
30. DDoS Infrastructure Attacks (5:28)
31. DDoS Application Attacks (4:26)
32. AWS Shield Standard (4:37)
33. AWS Shield Advanced (5:23)
34. Reducing your Attack Vector (7:47)
35. AWS WAF: Understanding the Benefits (7:10)
36. AWS WAF: Basics and Access Control Lists (8:54)
37. AWS WAF: Rule Conditions (7:57)
38. Firewall Manager Service: Initial Setup (5:14)
39. Firewall Manager Service: Security Policies (6:21)
40. Conclusion (0:04)

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