With organizations moving their workloads, applications, and infrastructure to the cloud at an unprecedented pace, security of all these resources has been a paradigm shift for all those who are responsible for security; experts, novices, and apprentices alike. AWS provides many controls to secure customer workloads and quite often customers are not aware of their share of security responsibilities, and the security controls that they need to own and put in place for their resources in the AWS cloud.
Maps are vital for your journey, especially when you're holidaying in another continent. When it comes to learning, a roadmap helps you in giving a definitive path for progressing towards the goal. So, here you're presented with a roadmap before you begin your journey.
This book is meticulously designed and developed in order to empower you with all the right and relevant information on AWS. We've created this Learning Path for you that consists of five lessons:
Lesson 1, AWS Virtual Private Cloud, talks about creating and securing our own virtual network in the AWS cloud. This lesson also introduces you to the various connectivity options that AWS provides to create hybrid cloud, public cloud, and private cloud solutions.
Lesson 2, Data Security in AWS, covers encryption in AWS to secure your data in rest and while working with AWS data storage services.
Lesson 3, Securing Servers in AWS, explains ways to secure your infrastructure in AWS by employing continuous threat assessment, agent-based security checks, virtual firewalls for your servers, and so on.
Lesson 4, Securing Applications in AWS, introduces you to ways to secure all your applications developed and deployed in the AWS environment. You will walk through the web application firewall service, as well as securing a couple of AWS services used by developers for web and mobile application development.
Lesson 5, AWS Security Best Practices, walks you through best practices in a consolidated form for securing all your resources in AWS.
Get familiar with VPC components, features, and benefits
Learn to create and secure your private network in AWS
Explore encryption and decryption fundamentals
Understand monitoring, logging, and auditing in AWS
Ensure data security in AWS
Secure your web and mobile applications in AWS
Learn security best practices for IAM, VPC, shared security responsibility model, and so on
This book is for all IT professionals, system administrators, security analysts, solution architects, and chief information security officers who are responsible for securing workloads in AWS for their organizations. Some of the prerequisites that is required before you begin this book are:
Working knowledge on AWS is required
Working knowledge of Linux is assumed