Pluralsight – AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate (DEA-C01): Data Security and Governance 2024-7

AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate (DEA-C01) course: Data Security and Governance. This course covers the security and data governance portion of the AWS Data Engineer Specialist exam. This section constitutes 18% of the total exam score. Starting with the basic concepts of identity and access management, we will systematically explore the different layers of security available for managing data repositories in AWS. We’ll cover networking concepts for connecting to private data stores in your VPC, as well as connecting to services like S3 from private compute instances. We’ll also explore database authentication options in AWS. By the end of this course, you should understand the basics of data encryption in AWS and be familiar with the encryption options that AWS provides for different data services. Another challenge we’ll explore for data managers in AWS is protecting personally identifiable information across the many different accounts and roles that access your data stores. We’ll explore how to define highly detailed custom permissions for data stored in your enterprise data warehouse or data lake on AWS. Finally, we’ll look at logging and monitoring your data sources in AWS. Not only do we need to understand how to proactively secure our data resources, but we also need to be able to react to security actions and events. After completing this course, you should have the necessary foundation to understand data security and governance in the context of the Data Engineer – Associate level exam.

What you will learn:

• Restrict access to data
• Ensuring data encryption and maskinga
• Privacy and data governance
• Preparing logs for auditing: Tracing API calls via CloudTrail
• CloudWatch alarms and logs
• Share data between Redshift clusters

This course is suitable for people who:

• This course will be very useful for those who want to take the AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate exam and are looking for a deep understanding of data security and governance in an AWS environment. It is also suitable for data engineers and data security professionals looking to improve their skills in cloud data security.