Introduction

Transcript

Hello and welcome to this course. I'm going to be focusing on how security around serverless and Function as a Service architectures compares to that of Infrastructure as a Service security. I will be examining the differences and similarities between them to understand where a serverless environment makes security easy to manage and where it makes it harder to address security concerns and issues. 

Before we start, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Stuart Scott. I am one of the trainers here at Cloud Academy, specializing in AWS, Amazon Web Services. Feel free to connect with me with any questions using the details shown on the screen. Alternatively, you can always get in touch with us here at Cloud Academy by sending an email to support@cloudacademy.com where one of our Cloud experts will reply to your question. 

The content within this course will be beneficial to engineers who are focused on delivering secure serverless solutions within an enterprise environment. Security architects looking to enhance their knowledge of FaaS solutions and developers deploying applications within a serverless environment. 

This course is comprised of the following lectures, starting with reducing security threats with serverless. This lecture focuses on how a serverless solution can bring security benefits by design. Downfalls of security with serverless and this lecture focuses on the opposite of the previous lecture. And so here I'll be talking about how a serverless solution can make some elements of security more difficult. Common Function as a Service and Infrastructure as a Service Security concerns and this lecture highlights different security concerns that exist in both an IaaS and FaaS solution. OWASP and Serverless Application Security. In this lecture, I focus on application security and how serverless solutions need to mitigate against common attack vectors outlined in the OWASP top 10 list. And finally the course summary. And this lecture summarizes the key points from each of the previous lectures. 

By the end of this course, you will understand and be able to distinguish between the pros and cons of serverless security. You'll understand where to focus additional security controls in a FaaS solution and have a general overview of how security differs to that of a typical Infrastructure as a Service solution. 

As a pre-requisite of this course, you should have a basic knowledge and awareness of the following. A general understanding of what serverless means, understand what FaaS and IaaS relates to, a basic awareness of different attack vectors such as denial of service, AWS Lambda, Amazon Cognito, Amazon API Gateway, and security controls within IAM. If you want to find out additional information about any of these points, then feel free to search our library to look at the following content. We have a learning path entitled Getting Started with Serverless Computing. We have a number of courses, Introduction to Amazon API Gateway, an Overview of IAM and an Introduction to the Web Application Firewall. And we also have a couple of labs, Manage Authentication with Amazon Cognito and Introduction to AWS Lambda. 

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That brings me to the end of this lecture. Coming up next, I want to start off by looking at how serverless solutions offer security benefits over that of Infrastructure as a Service.