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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

Adding support from the AWS DDoS Response Team (DRT)

Once your rate-based rules are configured, you have the option of adding support from the AWS DRT. This is a specialized team at AWS who can help you to review, analyze, and monitor suspected malicious activity within your account and offer help and solutions on how to resolve a potential attack. 

To help the DRT team with your investigations, they will need access to your AWS WAF rules web ACLs within your affected account. This obviously requires your authorization for them to access this information should you need their assistance. Should you require access to the DRT team, then you need to pre-authorize their access at this stage. If you do not want the DRT team to have access to your resources, then you must select the Do not grant the DRT access to my account option.

If access to DRT is required, it will be governed by an IAM role that will have the AWSShieldDRTAccessPolicy managed policy attached, which trusts the...