By Vick Tagawa | 60 Min Video

Public cloud service providers like AWS provide the infrastructure and platform services that enable customers to quickly build and host a variety of applications. This is great, but according to top security analyst firms, up to 90% of customers are vulnerable to security breaches due to cloud misconfiguration.

One way to help mitigate those issues in AWS is to understand the security tools available to you and use them to secure your AWS resources.

This Tech Talk will help you enforce your security policies at the account level using the AWS Identity and Access Management tool. In subsequent Tech Talks, we will discuss additional security controls and best practices.

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Overview of IAM in AWS

Explanation of IAM as the foundation of AWS security.

Roles, users, groups, and policies as the building blocks of access control.

Managing Permissions

How to create and assign policies using JSON.

Differences between managed vs. inline policies.

Using permission boundaries to set maximum allowable permissions.

Best Practices

Least privilege principle and how to implement it.

Using roles instead of access keys.

Monitoring activity with AWS CloudTrail.

Instructor Bio:

Vick has over 30 years of training and IT industry experience. He has a degree in Electrical Engineering and has earned technology vendor certifications on Unix, Novell Netware, Microsoft, and Cisco. He was certified as a Certified Cisco Systems Instructor in 1997 and has maintained his CCIE certification since 2001.