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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
Section 2: Security Responsibility and Access Management

Throughout this section, you will be introduced to one of the most fundamental principles of working with AWS Security: the AWS shared responsibility model. This will help you understand where your security responsibility, both as a customer and as part of AWS, starts and ends. You will then be introduced to a number of different AWS services that allow you to effectively manage and implement solid access control policies so that you can control who has access to which resources within your AWS account. You will also learn about the best practices regarding identity and access management (IAM), in addition to how to create and configure many of the available components.

To implement stringent access control, you will need a solid understanding of how access policies work. To ensure you have this in your tool belt, we...