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AWS Certified Security — Specialty

Official course for the AWS security specialty: identity, data protection, incident response, monitoring, and infrastructure security.

Duration
32h
Modality
Online live
Exam code
SCS-C02
Certification
AWS Certified Security — Specialty
Class confirmed
Next class
Oct 05, 2026

Audience

Cloud security engineers and security architects.

Learning objectives

  • Implement identity management and federation
  • Apply encryption in transit and at rest
  • Operate threat detection and incident response

Prerequisites

To get the most from this course, we recommend prior mastery of the fundamentals covered in SAA-C03 (AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate) or equivalent knowledge acquired through professional experience or self-study. Holding the previous certification is not required — what matters is mastering the topics below:

  • Design secure architectures with IAM, KMS, GuardDuty
  • Implement resilient architectures (multi-AZ, auto scaling, RTO/RPO)
  • Optimize performance and costs

Syllabus

01

Threat Detection & Incident Response

In this module of SCS-C02 — AWS Certified Security — Specialty, you deepen threat detection & incident response within the AWS ecosystem, with practical focus on the topics required by the official SCS-C02 blueprint. Content combines theoretical fundamentals, instructor-led demonstrations and lab exercises to consolidate GuardDuty, Detective, Macie.

Topics covered

  • GuardDuty
  • Detective
  • Macie
02

Security Logging & Monitoring

In this module of SCS-C02 — AWS Certified Security — Specialty, you deepen security logging & monitoring within the AWS ecosystem, with practical focus on the topics required by the official SCS-C02 blueprint. Content combines theoretical fundamentals, instructor-led demonstrations and lab exercises to consolidate CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Athena.

Topics covered

  • CloudTrail
  • CloudWatch
  • Athena
03

Infrastructure Security

In this module of SCS-C02 — AWS Certified Security — Specialty, you deepen infrastructure security within the AWS ecosystem, with practical focus on the topics required by the official SCS-C02 blueprint. Content combines theoretical fundamentals, instructor-led demonstrations and lab exercises to consolidate VPC, WAF, Shield, Network Firewall.

Topics covered

  • VPC
  • WAF
  • Shield
  • Network Firewall
04

IAM

In this module of SCS-C02 — AWS Certified Security — Specialty, you deepen iam within the AWS ecosystem, with practical focus on the topics required by the official SCS-C02 blueprint. Content combines theoretical fundamentals, instructor-led demonstrations and lab exercises to consolidate IAM Identity Center, STS, Permissions boundaries.

Topics covered

  • IAM Identity Center
  • STS
  • Permissions boundaries
05

Data Protection

In this module of SCS-C02 — AWS Certified Security — Specialty, you deepen data protection within the AWS ecosystem, with practical focus on the topics required by the official SCS-C02 blueprint. Content combines theoretical fundamentals, instructor-led demonstrations and lab exercises to consolidate KMS, Macie, Secrets Manager.

Topics covered

  • KMS
  • Macie
  • Secrets Manager

Upcoming classes

StatusDateModalityHoursContact
ConfirmedOct 05, 2026 Online live32h
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