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Announcing the new AWS Certified Security – Specialty exam
Good news for cloud security experts: following our most popular beta exam ever, the AWS Certified Security – Specialty exam is here. This new exam allows experienced cloud security professionals to demonstrate and validate their knowledge of how to secure the AWS platform.
About the exam
The security exam covers incident response, logging and monitoring, infrastructure security, identity and access management, and data protection. The exam is open to anyone who currently holds a Cloud Practitioner or Associate-level certification. We recommend candidates have five years of IT security experience designing and implementing security solutions, and at least two years of hands-on experience securing AWS workloads.
The exam validates:
- An understanding of specialized data classifications and AWS data protection mechanisms.
- An understanding of data encryption methods and AWS mechanisms to implement them.
- An understanding of secure Internet protocols and AWS mechanisms to implement them.
- A working knowledge of AWS security services and features of services to provide a secure production environment.
- Competency gained from two or more years of production deployment experience using AWS security services and features.
- Ability to make trade-off decisions with regard to cost, security, and deployment complexity given a set of application requirements.
- An understanding of security operations and risk.
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How to prepare
We have training and other resources to help you prepare for the exam:
AWS Training (aws.amazon.com/training)
- Advanced Architecting on AWS classroom training
- Security Operations on AWS classroom training
- AWS Digital Training focused on security services and topics, including:
Additional Resources
- Security and Compliance documentation
- Compliance resources
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Please contact us if you have questions about exam registration.
Good luck!