Knowledge of:

  • Application configuration and credentials security
  • AWS service endpoints
  • Control ports, protocols, and network traffic on AWS
  • Secure application access
  • Security services with appropriate use cases (for example, Amazon Cognito, Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Macie)
  • Threat vectors external to AWS (for example, DDoS, SQL injection)

 

Skills in:

  • Designing VPC architectures with security components (for example, security groups, route tables, network ACLs, NAT gateways)
  • Determining network segmentation strategies (for example, using public subnets and private subnets)
  • Integrating AWS services to secure applications (for example, AWS Shield, AWS WAF, AWS SSO, AWS Secrets Manager)
  • Securing external network connections to and from the AWS Cloud (for example, VPN, AWS Direct Connect)
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