Perhaps your company is moving to the Amazon cloud and you are concerned with safely protecting your company’s data. Perhaps your company needs to follow a strict level of compliance when operating in the cloud. Maybe you have a lot of data stored in the cloud, and find that you don’t have time to manage it properly. In this course, Securing Data on AWS, you will gain the ability to encrypt your data using any of the data services provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). First, you will learn the difference between the Key Management Service (KMS) and CloudHSM. Next, you will discover how to create customer-managed keys and perform administration on your encryption keys for both administrators and end users. Then, you will see how to install CloudHSM, and understand the integration between KMS and CloudHSM. Finally, you will understand how Amazon Macie can help you manage and protect your data records stored in S3 buckets. When you are finished with this course, you will have the skills and understanding of services that help you perform encryption and management of your stored data in the AWS cloud.
Author Name: Mark Wilkins
Author Description:
Mark is a former electronic design technologist turned Microsoft and IBM SoftLayer cloud geek spending many years designing deploying and supporting software and hardware technology in the corporate and small business world. As course director for Global Knowledge (GK), Mark developed and taught many technical seminars including Configuring Active Directory Services, Configuring Group Policy, and Cloud and Virtualization Essentials. Mark also developed courseware for the Microsoft Official Cur… more

Table of Contents

• Course Overview
  1min
• Encryption and Decryption at AWS
  35mins
• Securing Data with KMS (Key Management Service)
  24mins
• Securing Data with Cloud HSM (Hardware Security Module)
  17mins
• Protecting Sensitive Data with Amazon Macie
  28mins