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AWS Certified Security – Specialty Exam Guide

AWS Certified Security – Specialty Exam Guide

By : Palomar, Stuart Scott
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AWS Certified Security – Specialty Exam Guide

AWS Certified Security – Specialty Exam Guide

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By: Palomar, 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)
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Section 1: The Exam and Preparation
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Section 2: Security Responsibility and Access Management
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Section 3: Security - a Layered Approach
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Section 4: Monitoring, Logging, and Auditing
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Section 5: Best Practices and Automation
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Section 6: Encryption and Data Security

AWS Shared Responsibility Model

Now that you are ready to begin your journey, the first step is to understand who is responsible for what when it comes to cloud computing. Security for both workloads and data stored in the cloud is separated into functions performed by both the customer and the cloud service provider (in this case Amazon Web Services). The shared responsibility model describes which duty belongs to whom.

From its very name the shared responsibility model, it is clear from the outset that more than one party is involved. This model defines where the customer’s responsibility for implementing, controlling, and managing security within AWS starts and ends, compared to that of the cloud service provider, in this case, AWS.

The roles and responsibilities of managing security require a shared awareness between the two parties. The model itself is not a legal agreement in any way; it is simply down to you to be aware of the model and understand its importance...

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