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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we learnt about securing applications that are built on top of AWS resources. We went through WAF in detail to protect web applications in AWS and learnt about the benefits and lifecycle of Web Application Firewall. We also walked through the process of automating security with WAF.

Furthermore, we went through the process of signing AWS API requests for securing data in transit along with securing information stored in API itself.

Lastly, we learned about two AWS services that are used by developers to secure their web and mobile applications--Amazon Cognito for user management and Amazon API Gateway for managing and securing APIs.

In next chapter, Monitoring in AWS, we will learn about monitoring all AWS resources. Monitoring enables us to gauge operational health, performance, security, and the status of all resources. AWS provides comprehensive monitoring...