SANS – SEC541: Cloud Security Threat Detection 2022-6

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Description

SEC541: Cloud Security Threat Detection. This course provides advanced skills to detect, analyze, and respond to complex attacks in AWS and Azure cloud environments. Focusing on a practical, real-world threat-based approach, this course guides participants through analyzing case studies, implementing diagnostic controls, and investigating suspicious activity. Throughout the course, learners will create a detection engineering process and investigate threats using cloud-native logs, API monitoring, and detection systems designed for the cloud. Threat hunting strategies are also taught to improve proactive detection and reduce response time. This course covers the critical differences between on-premises and cloud security environments, enabling professionals to gain better visibility into the cloud threat landscape by building effective threat detection systems. Ultimately, this training helps organizations maintain a strong security posture on cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and Microsoft 365 and resist modern security challenges by equipping their workforce with up-to-date knowledge.

What you will learn

How to build a diagnostic engineering program.
Analyze cloud API logs to detect unauthorized activities.
Implementing effective cloud-native security monitoring.
Effective use of Azure and AWS diagnostic services.
Applying threat intelligence and generative artificial intelligence to cloud security.
Building automation for incident response in the cloud.

This course is suitable for people who:

Cloud Security Analysts
Threat Detection Engineers
Security Operations Center (SOC) Operators
Security incident responders
Cloud Security Architects
Penetration testers
SOC Managers
Blue Team Members
Forensic Analysts
Offensive security professionals seeking to understand defensive techniques.
IT professionals who are transitioning into cloud security roles.
Anyone responsible for securing cloud environments in any industry.

Course Description SEC541: Cloud Security Threat Detection

Publisher: SANS
Instructor: Shaun McCullough , Ryan Nicholson
Training level: Beginner to advanced
Training duration: 19 hours and 29 minutes
Number of lessons: 556

Course headings

SEC541: Cloud Security Threat Detection

SEC541: Cloud Security Threat Detection Course Prerequisites

Students should be familiar and have hands-on experience with AWS or Azure, especially security professionals working in the cloud security field who understand basic threats and attack vectors.
The course assumes that students can understand or do the following without help:
Understand basic cloud resources such as virtual machines, storage services, and Identity Access Management
Use the Linux command line console.
Understand how identity access roles/policies work in cloud environments
Understand basic cloud networking capabilities
Common prerequisite SANS courses for SEC541 are either:
SEC488: Cloud Security Essentials, or
SEC510: Cloud Security Controls and Mitigations