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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

Accessing reports and agreements

Accessing these reports is simple and you can do it from the Management Console. Follow these steps:

  1. Log in to your AWS account and, from the AWS Management Console, click on the Security, Identity & Compliance category.
  2. Now navigate to the Artifact dashboard. You are presented with two options, which help organize Artifact documents, these being Reports and Agreements:

  1. We'll look at Reports first, so click on it. Within the Reports section, you can find artifacts that relate to specific compliance and security requirements, such as SOC, PCI-DSS, and the ISO 27000 series, among many others. Here is a screenshot of the list of artifacts available:

  1. As you can see, for each artifact there is a blue button that allows you to Get this artifact. To view the artifact and download the document, you must select the blue button and then sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) with AWS relating to the information contained within the...