What You’ll Learn in This Course

Most AWS security courses walk you through services and features. This one starts from a different place: real examples, real failure patterns, and real constraints. You’ll learn how AWS security breaks in practice, why “best practices” often fail at scale, and how to design security controls that still hold when systems change, teams grow, and mistakes happen.

  • ✅ You won’t just learn what AWS security services do. You’ll learn how to design secure AWS environments that survive real-world pressure.

  • ✅ You’ll understand why most AWS breaches are not caused by missing services, but by weak control design, misplaced trust, and identity failures. You’ll learn how to think like a security architect who designs for failure instead of assuming perfect behavior.

  • ✅ How to develop the AWS security architect mindset — the ability to reason about tradeoffs, explain risk in business terms, and design security systems that work even when people make mistakes.

Course curriculum

    1. Setting Up Your AWS Environment

    1. Managing IAM Users and Roles

    1. Implementing Security Groups and NACLs

    1. Securing Data in Transit

    1. Creating an Incident Response Plan

About this course

  • $29.99
  • 5 lessons
  • 0 hours of video content

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Instructor(s)

Taimur Ijlal

Instructor

Taimur Ijlal is a multi-award-winning, Cybersecurity leader with over two decades of international experience in Cybersecurity and IT risk management in the fin-tech industry. He is a best-selling Author, Career coach and Content creator. He moved to the UK in 2021 with this family after being awarded a UK Global Talent Visa. His courses have helped thousands of Cybersecurity students and are used by top companies across the globe.

FAQ

  • Who is this course for?

    This course is designed for: Cloud Security Engineers, Security Architects, DevSecOps Engineers , AWS practitioners responsible for security decisions, GRC professionals moving toward technical security roles. If you are tired of high-level AWS security overviews and want to understand how things break in real environments, this course is for you.

  • Does this course include hands-on examples?

    Yes — but not toy labs. The examples are realistic scenarios, architectural walkthroughs, and failure analyses based on real AWS environments. The focus is on thinking and design, not step-by-step click-through demos that don’t survive real conditions.

  • Will this course teach specific AWS security services?

    Yes — but always in context. Services like IAM, SCPs, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, KMS, Config etc. are covered as part of real scenarios, not in isolation. You’ll learn when they help, when they don’t, and how they interact.

  • Is this course updated for modern AWS environments?

    Yes. The content reflects current AWS security realities, including multi-account architectures, identity-centric security, continuous compliance, and modern audit expectations.