Understanding Your Security Posture Using the Cyber Defense Matrix
  • Module 1: Navigating the Vast Security Vendor Landscape
  • Module 2: Aligning Business Considerations with Security Capabilities
  • Module 3: Mapping Capabilities Across Asset Types and Security Functions

  • Module 4: Allocating Resources Across Security Functions
  • Module 5: Matching Solutions to Assets Types and Security Functions
  • Module 6: Identifying Technology Gaps in Your Security Solution Portfolio

  • Module 7: Determining Security Responsibilities Through Patterns and Antipatterns
  • Module 8: Adding New Security Dimensions to Redefine Perimeters

Instructor: Sounil Yu

Former Chief Security Scientist at Bank of America, and Creator of the Cyber Defense Matrix

Course Description

Viewers of this series will learn how to use the Cyber Defense Matrix as a decision-making framework to better understand their security landscape and which solutions in AWS Marketplace can be used to fill it out. Modules will cover topics such as defining asset classes and security functions within your environment, determining how to use capabilities to identify security needs, and various considerations to make when building your security portfolio.

Get Started

Learn more about some of the solutions mentioned in these videos that are available in AWS Marketplace by viewing their KickStart Kits. These kits offer deployment training through instructional videos and guides that can expedite your time to value for these solutions.

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About Sounil Yu:

Sounil Yu is a security innovator with 30+ years of hands-on experience creating, breaking, and fixing computer and network systems. He is the creator of the Cyber Defense Matrix and the DIE Resiliency Framework, serves as on the Board of Directors for the FAIR Institute and SCVX Corp, and co-chairs Art into Science: A Conference on Defense. He previously served as the Chief Security Scientist at Bank of America, leading a cross-functional team focused on driving innovation and a thriving startup culture to meet emerging cybersecurity needs, to serve as a challenge function, and to be a change agent driving unconventional thinking and alternative approaches to hard problems in security.



About AWS Marketplace:

AWS Marketplace is a digital software catalog that makes it easy to find, try, buy, deploy, and manage software that runs on AWS. AWS Marketplace has a broad and deep selection of security solutions offered by hundreds of independent software vendors, spanning infrastructure security, logging and monitoring, identity and access control, data protection, and more. These products can be integrated with AWS Services and other existing technologies, enabling you to deploy a comprehensive security architecture across your AWS and on-premises environments. Visit aws.amazon.com/marketplace to learn more.