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AWS Security Cookbook

By : Heartin Kanikathottu
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AWS Security Cookbook

By: Heartin Kanikathottu

Overview of this book

As a security consultant, securing your infrastructure by implementing policies and following best practices is critical. This cookbook discusses practical solutions to the most common problems related to safeguarding infrastructure, covering services and features within AWS that can help you implement security models such as the CIA triad (confidentiality, integrity, and availability), and the AAA triad (authentication, authorization, and availability), along with non-repudiation. The book begins with IAM and S3 policies and later gets you up to speed with data security, application security, monitoring, and compliance. This includes everything from using firewalls and load balancers to secure endpoints, to leveraging Cognito for managing users and authentication. Over the course of this book, you'll learn to use AWS security services such as Config for monitoring, as well as maintain compliance with GuardDuty, Macie, and Inspector. Finally, the book covers cloud security best practices and demonstrates how you can integrate additional security services such as Glacier Vault Lock and Security Hub to further strengthen your infrastructure. By the end of this book, you'll be well versed in the techniques required for securing AWS deployments, along with having the knowledge to prepare for the AWS Certified Security – Specialty certification.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Using keys with external key material

When we create keys within AWS KMS, AWS creates and manages the key material for that key. We can also create keys using our own key material that has been created outside of AWS. In this recipe, we will learn how to import our own key material into AWS KMS.

Getting ready

We need a working AWS account to complete this recipe.

How to do it...

We will start by creating our key from AWS KMS by setting the key material origin to External. Then, we will download the key import wrapper from the AWS KMS service, generate the key in our local...