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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)

Passwords Policy

You can set up the password policy for your AWS account from IAM. Navigate to the IAM dashboard from the AWS console. Click on Account settings. As shown in the following figure, on the Password Policy page, you can setup requirements such as minimum password length, rotation period, and so on. Most of these changes in your password policy are effective when your users log in the next time, however, for changes such as change in the password expiration period, they are applied immediately:

Figure 13 - AWS IAM Password Policy