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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
DDoS Protection

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are very common, and if successful, they can have a hugely detrimental impact on an organization's service operation. Depending on the scale of the DDoS attack, it can render an entire website unavailable, and for e-commerce retail businesses, this could cost them significant losses in sales.

In this chapter, we will be looking at DDoS and how you can leverage AWS Shield to help protect your infrastructure from these malicious attacks. We will look at the differences between the two different tiers supported by Shield and how you can utilize the services of the AWS DDoS Response Team (DRT).

This chapter will focus on the following:  

  • Understanding DDoS and its attack patterns
  • Protecting your environment using AWS Shield