In this course, you will learn about AWS offerings designed to facilitate the practice of encryption throughout your data's AWS cloud lifecycle. You will also have the option to review encryption concepts and practice selecting AWS offerings to meet common encryption needs.
In this course, you will learn about AWS offerings designed to facilitate the practice of encryption throughout your data’s AWS cloud lifecycle. You will also have the option to review encryption concepts and practice selecting AWS offerings to meet common encryption needs.
Course level: Fundamental
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes
This course includes contextual explanations, instructive examples, videos, conceptual diagrams and knowledge check questions.
In this course, you will learn to do the following:
Summarize the importance of practicing encryption.
Identify AWS offerings to meet data protection needs.
Describe concepts related to encryption, such as keys, envelope encryption, and public key infrastructure.
This course is intended for the following roles:
Security operations teams
We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:
Familiarity, or previous work with cryptography and encryption before starting this course to have an optimal learning experience.
Take AWS Security Fundamentals (Second Edition) to build a general understanding of security with AWS.
Section 1: Introduction
Lesson 1: How to Use This Course
Lesson 2: Introduction
Section 2: Conceptual Refresh – Optional
Lesson 3: Encryption Basics
Section 3: Managing Keys With AWS
Lesson 4: AWS Key Management Service
Lesson 5: AWS CloudHSM
Section 4: Conceptual Refresh – Optional
Lesson 6: Signing and Hashing Basics
Lesson 7: Public Key Infrastructure
Section 5: Managing Certificates with AWS
Lesson 8: AWS Certificate Manager
Lesson 9: AWS Private Certificate Authority
Section 6: Encrypting Application-Level Data with AWS
Lesson 10: Application Level Encryption Offerings
Section 7: Wrapping Up
Lesson 11: Choosing AWS Offerings to Meet Encryption Needs