Boost Your Security Posture with AWS Infrastructure and Services

At AWS, security is more than a top priority and a key differentiator. It’s baked into the DNA of our services. So you can innovate faster, reduce costs and enjoy other benefits safely and without constant security concerns.

In the next episode of TechConnect, we will explore the basics of cloud security, tackle recurring cloud myths, and learn techniques to better protect data and improve your security posture. With the insight of our partner, Deloitte, the session will also showcase security best practices, demo and share successful AWS customer case studies from engagements across the region and around the world.

Who Should Attend:

CISO, Security Architects, Solutions Architects, Cloud Engineers, Security Engineers 

Event Agenda:

Time Topics
2:00 – 2:30pm
Cloud Security and Compliance Basics by Samuel Suen, Solutions Architect, AWS
2:30 – 3:00pm
Top Ten AWS Security Tips by Ken Zhang, Practice Manager, AWS
3:00 – 3:30pm
Defending Workloads on AWS against Modelled Threats by Boris So, Senior Security Consultant, AWS
3:30 – 4:00pm
Enabling Your Secure Journey to Cloud:  Securing Your Landing Zones by Puneet Kukreja, Lead Partner - Cyber Cloud, Deloitte
4:00 - 4:15pm Q&A Session

You Will Acquire below Insights after Joining this Event:



Protection Priorities

Gain a deeper understanding on Guardrails as Code On AWS
Walk through common scenarios of modelled threats and learn how to defend and mitigate risk
Build a secure landing zone for application migration or cloud native application development

Compliance & Best Practices

CISO, Security Architects, Solutions Architects, Cloud Engineers, Security Engineers 

Event date : Mar 5 (Friday)

Time : 2.00 – 4.15pm

Language: English

Common Attack Scenarios

Session

Data Analytics

Hands-on lab that will walk through building an end-to-end serverless data analytics solution on AWS covering querying data in an S3 data lake using Amazon Athena, visualizing data using Amazon QuickSight, doing ETL with Amazon Glue, and finally querying data with Redshift Spectrum.

High Impact Solutions

Session

Infrastructure as Code, Featuring AWS CloudFormation

In this workshop you’ll learn how to use AWS CloudFormation to deploy your cloud resources in a consistent, repeatable manner that can help reduce errors and speed up infrastructure deployments. Along the way you’ll learn the basics of Infrastructure AS Code concepts, as well as some real world tips and tricks to help you get to production.

Secure Landing Zone

Session

RDS/Aurora

Learn how to auto-scale aurora read replicas, perform a cloning operation, backtrack your database and analyze performance with performance insights.

Architecture Cost Optimization

Session

Architecture Cost Optimization

Optimizing architecture for cost savings; tracking underutilized and un-utilized instances and leveraging spot instances. 

Gameday

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Gameday

AWS GameDay is a learning exercise designed to better familiarize players with the AWS environment and challenge them to come up with ways to solve problems based on the AWS resources they have available to them.

The path that GameDay participants take is open ended and therefore offers an opportunity to learn about AWS best practices, new AWS services, and AWS architecture patterns in a risk free environment.

AI/ML

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AI/ML

This session track will cover Structured Data, Computer Vision, and Natural Language use cases in a workshop setting for hands-on experience. AWS Service best practices and Q/A will be included at the end of the workshop.

EMR

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EMR

Creating Amazon EMR clusters, submitting and monitoring Spark-based ETL workloads to a cluster, and integrating Amazon SageMaker with EMR.

Developing Multi-region Serverless Applications

Session

Developing Multi-region Serverless Applications

This workshop will show you how to build a serverless ticketing system that is replicated across two regions and provides automatic failover in the event of a disaster. You will learn the basics of deploying AWS Lambda functions, exposing them via API Gateway, and configuring replication using Route53 and DynamoDB.

Streaming Data

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Streaming Data

Work hands-on with AWS services that make it easier to build data processing applications, load massive volumes of streaming data, and analyze it in real time.

CloudFormation Infrastructure as Code

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CloudFormation Infrastructure as Code

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DynamoDB

Session

DynamoDB

Best practices around encryption, backups, tools, troubleshooting, and Disaster Recovery

Speaker Bio

Samuel has over 20 years on ICT industries with compelling hands-on and consulting experience. Skilled in public cloud, data center networking, cloud connectivity and security solutions. He helped different customers including large enterprise, FSI and public sector in cloud adoption, specialized in networking and security best practice. He also keens on learning new latest technology with different vendors’ badges and acquired business management knowledge with the top local MBA program. He is passionate to solve customer’s cloud adoption pain points via different technologies.

Ken specializes in cloud, strategy, security, transformation, architecture and change management. He has experience helping organizations with their transformation journeys in banking, insurance, retail, health service and manufacturing. He also holds a variety of widely-recognized tech certificates and an MBA from a global top 30 business school. He is passionate about helping organizations to capture value and provide better experience to their customers.

Boris is a software security specialist who focuses on the security aspects of software design and architecture, threat modelling, secure coding, penetration testing, reverse engineering, cryptography and steganography as well as rootkit research. Leveraging more than 20 years of experience in both offense and defense, combined with software engineering expertise that includes the use of machine learning, Boris has developed innovative solutions to solve complex security problems. He is passionate about sharing knowledge and nurturing the security community.

Puneet is a recognised international speaker on Cyber and an Adjunct Professor in Cybersecurity. He is Deloitte China’s Chief Strategy Officer for Digital and Cyber Risk, prior to joining the China firm Puneet was the FSI Cyber Leader for Australia. Puneet helps organisations through their cloud transformation journey with specific focus on data security, privacy, SOC automation, emerging technologies and IOT Security. Boards seek out Puneet as an advisor on cyber and digital security matters.