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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)

AWS CAF

AWS CAF helps organizations migrating to cloud computing in their cloud adoption journey by providing best practices and guidance through this framework. It breaks down this guidance into manageable areas of focus for building cloud-based systems that can be mapped to individual units of organizations. These focus areas are known as perspectives, there are six of these. Each perspective is further broken into components.

There are three perspectives, each for business (business, people, and governance) and technology (platform, security, and operations) stakeholders as shown in the following figure:

Figure 3 - AWS Cloud Adoption Framework perspectives

Each perspective is made up of responsibilities owned by one or more stakeholders known as CAF capabilities. These capabilities are standards, skills, and processes that define what is owned and/or managed by these...