Protecting Web Apps with AWS WAF, Shield & Firewall Manager

Explore the 3 AWS services, designed to help protect your web applications from external malicious activity, with this course. Once getting started, this course will delve into depth on all three services, comprised of AWS Web Application Firewall Service (WAF), AWS Firewall Manager and AWS Shield. By learning how all three services can be used together for enhanced protection of web applications you enterprise will wholly benefit from all the advantages that these services have to offer.

Study the core principles, understand the importance and discuss how protecting web apps with AWS can elevate your business to the next level with this cohesive course made up of 14 lectures, including demos.

Learning Objectives

Gain a core foundation of what AWS WAF is and what it does
Knowledge of how to configure and implement a WAF solution
Analyze how AWS WAF works closely with AWS CloudFront
An understanding of how AWS Firewall Manager can be used to help you control AWS WAF across multiple accounts
How AWS Shield is protecting Distributed Denial of Service attacks
An awareness of different types of DDoS attacks
An awareness of the step involved in configuring AWS Shield Advanced

Intended Audience

Security architects
Technical engineers
Website administrators
Anyone requiring a deeper understanding of WAF, Shield, and Firewall Manager

Prerequisites

Cloud Academy would recommend having a basic understanding of the following, before starting this course:

Amazon CloudFront Distributions
AWS Application Load Balancer
AWS Organizations
The 7 layers of the OSI model