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Mastering AWS Security

By : Albert Anthony
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Mastering AWS Security

By: Albert Anthony

Overview of this book

Mastering AWS Security starts with a deep dive into the fundamentals of the shared security responsibility model. This book tells you how you can enable continuous security, continuous auditing, and continuous compliance by automating your security in AWS with the tools, services, and features it provides. Moving on, you will learn about access control in AWS for all resources. You will also learn about the security of your network, servers, data and applications in the AWS cloud using native AWS security services. By the end of this book, you will understand the complete AWS Security landscape, covering all aspects of end - to -end software and hardware security along with logging, auditing, and compliance of your entire IT environment in the AWS cloud. Lastly, the book will wrap up with AWS best practices for security.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Monitoring in AWS

Monitoring is an integral part of the information technology environment in all organizations. Monitoring refers to collecting, tracking, and analyzing metrics related to the health and performance of resources, such as infrastructure components and applications, to ensure all resources in an environment are providing services at an acceptable level, that is, that a threshold is set up by resource owners or system administrators. Monitoring these resources allows you to take proactive action in the event of the failure or degradation of a service due to any reason such as a security breach or a DDoS attack. Monitoring is a preventive security measure.

A monitoring service needs to have metrics to monitor, graphs to visualize these metrics and trends, alarms for metrics when thresholds are breached, features to notify and take actions when the state is alarm and...