AWS Certified Security Specialty is the Amazon Web Services certification for individuals in a security role, covering detection, incident response, infrastructure security and data protection.
AWS Certified Security Specialty Training Course in Australia
The AWS Certified Security Specialty (SCS-C03) is the Amazon Web Services certification for individuals who perform a security role. Its exam covers six content domains: detection, incident response, infrastructure security, identity and access management, data protection, and security foundations and governance. This AWS security certification course follows those domains.
Who this course suits
AWS Certified Security Specialty training suits Cloud Architects, Cloud Security Engineers, Database Administrators, DevSecOps Engineers, Network Engineers and Security Engineers.
What this course covers
This AWS security training covers monitoring, alerting and logging, incident response, network edge, compute and network security controls, authentication and authorisation, data protection for data in transit and at rest, and account governance and compliance. Training will help prepare candidates for the AWS Certified Security Specialty (SCS-C03) exam.
Logitrain has been delivering high-quality, cost-effective training since 2004. This AWS security course is instructor-led and hands-on.
AWS Certified Security Specialty is a specialty level AWS certification for individuals who perform a security role. AWS groups the exam content into six domains, from detection through to security foundations and governance.
The exam is taken at any Pearson VUE test centre or online through Pearson VUE online proctoring. Logitrain delivers the course in person, in house at the client site or live online, with digital course material included and the price beat guarantee.
- Five years of IT security experience, including designing and implementing security solutions.
- Two or more years of hands-on experience securing AWS workloads.
- No specific certification is required. AWS notes that candidates commonly earn AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate or AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional first.
Candidates can achieve this certification by passing the following exam.
SCS-C03 AWS Certified Security Specialty Certification
The exam is not included in the course fee. It is booked and paid separately through Pearson VUE.
Attempt it at any Pearson VUE test centre, or online through Pearson VUE online proctoring from a private space with a camera, microphone and speaker.
Exam format: a maximum of 65 questions, 170 minutes, with a passing score of 750 on a scale of 100 to 1,000.
AWS Certified Security Specialty (SCS-C03) digital course material included.
- Covering controls for data at rest
- Covering controls for data in transit
- Covering controls to protect confidential data, credentials, secrets and cryptographic key materials
- Designing and implementing logging solutions
- Designing and implementing monitoring and alerting solutions for an AWS account or organisation
- Designing and testing an incident response plan
- Designing and troubleshooting network security controls
- Designing, implementing and troubleshooting authentication strategies
- Designing, implementing and troubleshooting authorisation strategies
- Designing, implementing and troubleshooting security controls for compute workloads
- Designing, implementing and troubleshooting security controls for network edge services
- Developing a strategy to centrally deploy and manage AWS accounts
- Evaluating the compliance of AWS resources
- Implementing a secure and consistent deployment strategy for cloud resources
- Responding to security events
- Troubleshooting security monitoring, logging and alerting solutions
This course is likely to add to the employment-related skills of the participants. The skills developed are likely to be used in the course of being an employee or working in a business.
- Cloud Architects
- Cloud Security Engineers
- Database Administrators
- DevSecOps Engineers
- Network Engineers
- Security Engineers
- Monitoring and alerting solutions for an AWS account or organisation
- Amazon GuardDuty
- Amazon Security Lake
- AWS Security Hub
- Amazon Macie
- AWS Config
- AWS Systems Manager State Manager
- Logging solutions
- AWS CloudTrail
- Amazon CloudWatch
- CloudWatch Logs agent
- CloudWatch Logs Insights
- Amazon Athena
- Amazon OpenSearch Service
- AWS Lambda
- Amazon Managed Grafana
- VPC Flow Logs
- Transit Gateway flow logs
- Amazon Route 53 Resolver logs
- Troubleshooting security monitoring, logging and alerting solutions
- Amazon API Gateway
- Amazon CloudFront
- CloudWatch Agent
- Incident response plan design and testing
- AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter
- Amazon SageMaker AI
- AWS Shield Advanced
- AWS Fault Injection Service
- AWS Resilience Hub
- AWS Systems Manager
- Automated Forensics Orchestrator for Amazon EC2
- AWS Step Functions
- Amazon Application Recovery Controller
- Responding to security events
- Amazon Detective
- Security controls for network edge services
- AWS WAF
- AWS IoT
- Amazon S3
- Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF)
- Security controls for compute workloads
- EC2 Image Builder
- Amazon Inspector
- AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager
- AWS Systems Manager Session Manager
- EC2 Instance Connect
- Amazon Q Developer
- Amazon CodeGuru Security
- Network security controls
- Security groups
- Network ACLs
- AWS Network Firewall
- AWS Site-to-Site VPN
- AWS Direct Connect
- MACsec
- AWS Verified Access
- Network Access Analyzer
- Authentication strategies
- AWS IAM Identity Center
- Amazon Cognito
- AWS STS
- Amazon S3 presigned URLs
- AWS Directory Service
- Authorisation strategies
- Amazon Verified Permissions
- IAM
- IAM Roles Anywhere
- IAM Policy Simulator
- IAM Access Analyzer
- Controls for data in transit
- Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
- AWS PrivateLink
- VPC endpoints
- AWS Client VPN
- Amazon EMR
- Amazon EKS
- AWS Nitro
- Controls for data at rest
- AWS CloudHSM
- AWS KMS
- S3 Object Lock
- S3 Glacier Vault Lock
- S3 Lifecycle policies
- Amazon EFS
- Amazon FSx for Lustre
- Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager
- AWS Backup
- AWS DataSync
- Controls to protect confidential data, credentials, secrets and cryptographic key materials
- AWS Secrets Manager
- CloudWatch Logs data protection policies
- Amazon SNS
- AWS Private Certificate Authority
- Strategy to centrally deploy and manage AWS accounts
- AWS Organizations
- AWS Control Tower
- Secure and consistent deployment strategy for cloud resources
- AWS CloudFormation
- CloudFormation StackSets
- CloudFormation Guard
- cfn-lint
- AWS Firewall Manager
- AWS Service Catalog
- AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM)
- Compliance of AWS resources
- AWS Audit Manager
- AWS Artifact
- AWS Well-Architected Tool
- All AWS courses: the full list of AWS courses Logitrain runs.
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Course: a course covering AWS foundations, the Well-Architected Framework, security, resilience and service selection.
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional Course: a course covering multi-account governance, identity federation, encryption and key management, hybrid connectivity and migration.
- AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM): a course covering IAM users, roles and policies, permissions boundaries, Amazon Cognito and AWS Organizations.
What is the AWS Certified Security Specialty certification?
AWS Certified Security Specialty is the AWS certification for individuals who perform a security role. Its exam covers detection, incident response, infrastructure security, identity and access management, data protection, and security foundations and governance.
Is AWS Certified Security Specialty an AWS cyber security certification?
AWS Certified Security Specialty is the AWS certification for the security role. It covers securing workloads on the AWS platform across six content domains.
What does AWS security training cover?
The outline covers monitoring, alerting and logging, incident response, network edge, compute and network security controls, authentication and authorisation, data protection and account governance. The full topic list is in the Outline tab on this page.
Is the exam included with the AWS Certified Security Specialty course?
The exam is not included in the course fee. It is booked and paid separately through Pearson VUE. Training will help prepare you for the AWS Certified Security Specialty exam.
What are the prerequisites for AWS Certified Security Specialty training?
AWS recommends five years of IT security experience, including designing and implementing security solutions, and two or more years of hands-on experience securing AWS workloads. No specific certification is required.
Which course should come before AWS Certified Security Specialty?
No specific certification is required. AWS notes that candidates commonly earn AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate or AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional first.
Which version of the AWS Certified Security Specialty exam does the course follow?
The course follows the current AWS Certified Security Specialty exam. The AWS certification page at https://aws.amazon.com/certification/certified-security-specialty/ shows the current exam details.
How long is the AWS security course?
The length depends on the schedule option chosen. Full-time weekdays, part-time weeknights and part-time weekends are available, and the current duration is shown in the course details on this page.
Where can I take AWS security training?
Training runs in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Canberra, plus live online across Australia. In house delivery at the client site is also available.
What is included with the AWS Certified Security Specialty course?
Digital course material, a Certificate of Attendance and the price beat guarantee are included.
What is included with the SCS-C03 AWS Certified Security Specialty Course?
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Get a Certificate of Attendance to prove your commitment to learning
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Take the official certification exam at Logitrain, a local VUE test centre or online
Includes Course Material
Course material in digital format is included for flexibility and ease of use
Includes Mock & Test Questions
Mock test is included in the full-time courses to assist with your preparation
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