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AWS Certified Security – Specialty Exam Guide

By : Stuart Scott
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AWS Certified Security – Specialty Exam Guide

By: Stuart Scott

Overview of this book

AWS Certified Security – Specialty is a certification exam to validate your expertise in advanced cloud security. With an ever-increasing demand for AWS security skills in the cloud market, this certification can help you advance in your career. This book helps you prepare for the exam and gain certification by guiding you through building complex security solutions. From understanding the AWS shared responsibility model and identity and access management to implementing access management best practices, you'll gradually build on your skills. The book will also delve into securing instances and the principles of securing VPC infrastructure. Covering security threats, vulnerabilities, and attacks such as the DDoS attack, you'll discover how to mitigate these at different layers. You'll then cover compliance and learn how to use AWS to audit and govern infrastructure, as well as to focus on monitoring your environment by implementing logging mechanisms and tracking data. Later, you'll explore how to implement data encryption as you get hands-on with securing a live environment. Finally, you'll discover security best practices that will assist you in making critical decisions relating to cost, security,and deployment complexity. By the end of this AWS security book, you'll have the skills to pass the exam and design secure AWS solutions.
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
1
Section 1: The Exam and Preparation
3
Section 2: Security Responsibility and Access Management
8
Section 3: Security - a Layered Approach
15
Section 4: Monitoring, Logging, and Auditing
18
Section 5: Best Practices and Automation
21
Section 6: Encryption and Data Security

Selecting your primary account to act as the Firewall Manager administrative account

The organization's master account must delegate which AWS account within the organization will become the administrator account for Firewall Manager. To do this, you can follow these steps:

  1. From within the AWS Management Console of the organization master, select AWS Firewall Manager under the Security, Identity, & Compliance category:

  1. Select Getting started under the AWS Firewall Manager option in the menu on the left:

You will see a list of the prerequisites I mentioned previously:

  1. Select Get started:

  1. Enter the AWS account ID (a 12-digit number) that you want to designate as the AWS Firewall Manager administrative account, and then click Set administrator account:

  1. You will then see a message stating that it has been successfully set:

It is worth noting that to set a different administrator, the current administrator must go to the AWS Firewall Manager settings and remove...