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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

Creating an NACL for the public subnet

To create an NACL for the public subnet, follow these steps:

  1. Navigate to the VPC service within the Management Console.
  2. Select Network ACLs from the menu on the left and select the blue Create network ACL button.
  3. Configure the NACL as shown in the following screenshot by selecting your VPC:

  1. Now select the newly created NACL in the list that appears and it will display its configuration at the bottom of the screen.
  2. Select the Inbound Rules tab. By default, a newly created NACL will DENY all traffic: 

  1. Select Edit inbound rules and configure the NACL as shown here:

  1. Click Create. By default, an explicit DENY will be added at the bottom of the NACL when you click Create, as shown here:

  1. Select the Outbound Rules tab and configure the outbound rules as shown here. Once done, select Create:

  1. Much like the route tables, we now need to associate this NACL with a subnet. Select the Subnet Associations tab | Edit...