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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

Where to start when implementing effective IR

To understand how to respond to a security incident within an organization, the business must first provide training for its staff and educate them on their corporate practices, procedures, and processes that are in place to safeguard the infrastructure. Security incidents can come in all shapes and sizes, from small and unlikely threats to immediate and imminent attacks whereby sensitive customer data could be stolen and extracted from your systems. With this in mind, training is an ongoing pursuit and, as such, you should employ and adopt runbooks that provide clear instructions and actions that you can carry out for particular security incidents that may occur and perhaps could be foreseen.  

Over time, these security incident runbooks will be modified and adapted as new processes, techniques, and technologies are applied within your organization. Staff should be familiar with the security tools and features offered by AWS...