Welcome to our course!
About the author
Hi, I’m Christophe Limpalair, and I’m the author of this course. I’m the founder and an author at Cybr, where I’ve published many courses on topics of cloud security and ethical hacking. You may also know me from Linux Academy, where I taught multiple AWS courses including AWS certification courses. I taught for the AWS Certified Developer, AWS Certified SysOps, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional, and the AWS Cloud Practitioner certifications.
There, I helped build, manage, and secure production AWS infrastructure that ran as a $1m/year budget.
Through that and other experiences, I learned how to properly design and secure AWS environments and resources. I continue to build on AWS for our platform at Cybr, and for various consulting gigs.
All that to say: I have years of experience working in AWS and building as well as securing production environments, and I’m now working on sharing my experiences in this (and other) courses to help you secure your own AWS resources.
For more details about my background, check out my LinkedIn profile and feel free to connect!
About the course
This course is going to be very hands-on, so I hope you’re ready to roll up your sleeves. We’re going to be using an open-source tool called CloudGoat developed by RhinoSecurity Labs in order to deploy pre-made lab environments with scenarios.
I chose CloudGoat because anyone can use it to deploy their own lab environments in their own AWS accounts whenever they want.
In addition to using the AWS command line interface, we’ll be using a cloud penetration testing tool called Pacu which, funny enough, was also developed and open-sourced by RhinoSecurity Labs.
We will also be using ChatGPT to help us progress along. I’m sure most of you know what ChatGPT is by now, so we’ll skip the introduction, but we will be using ChatGPT to help us craft commands, get passed roadblocks, and overall speed up what would otherwise take some time to accomplish.
ChatGPT is an awesome tool that we can use in our day-to-day for security purposes, and my goal with adding it to this course was to help you see how you can do that.
We’ll talk a little bit more about these tools and what we’ll be learning in this course in the following two lessons, so for now let’s leave it at that!
Conclusion
This was a very fun course to create, and so I hope you have just as much fun learning from it!
Thanks for joining us on this journey, and let’s get started!
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