Auditing Your Security with AWS Trusted Advisor

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This lab demonstrates the steps to audit your AWS resources with Trusted Advisor to ensure your configuration complies with basic security best practices. The topics covered will also include working with security groups, multifactor authentication (MFA), and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM).

Level

Intermediate

Duration

1 Hours 30 Minutes

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn how to:

• Use Trusted Advisor to perform a basic audit of your AWS resources
• Modify Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Security Groups to meet best practices
• Configure Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) (Optional, requiring installation of software on a mobile device)

Intended Audience

This course is intended for:

• DevOps Engineers
• Security Engineers

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

• Familiar with AWS services, including Amazon EC2
• Basic understanding of security groups
• Comfortable logging into and using the AWS Management Console
• Familiarity with IAM

Course Outline

• Task 1: Check recommended actions with Trusted Advisor

• Task 2: Modify security groups with unrestricted ports

• Task 3: Modify Security Groups to Restrict Access

• Task 4: Configure multi-factor authentication (MFA)

• Task 5: Exclude Security Groups if Unrestricted Access is Required