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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)

AWS Artifact

AWS Artifact is an audit and compliance, self-service portal for accessing and downloading AWS Security and compliance reports and agreement without any additional charge. These reports include AWS Service Organization Control (SOC) reports, FedRAMP Partner Package, ISO 27001:2013, and so on from accreditation bodies across geographies and industry verticals that verify and validate AWS Security controls. AWS Artifact is accessible from the AWS Management Console.

You can use it for verifying and validating security control for any vertical in any geography. It helps you to identify the scope of each audit artifact, such as AWS service or resources, regions, and audit dates as well. AWS Artifact allows you to perform internal security assessments of your AWS resources. You can continuously monitor and assess the security of your AWS environment as audit reports are...