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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)

Setting up and using AWS Config

In this recipe, we will learn how to set up and use AWS Config. We can use Config to record and evaluate configurations of our AWS resources. We can create rules that define security standards and find out about resources that do not comply with the security standards. Config also supports the auto-remediation of problems whenever they are detected.

Getting ready

If you want to add an SNS topic for notifications, you can create an SNS topic with an email subscription by following the Creating an SNS topic to send emails recipe of this chapter.

For the purpose of testing, we need to have at least one IAM user without MFC enabled.

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