- Encryption: As a best practice to secure your data in AWS, encrypt everything! Encrypt your data at rest in AWS across your storage options. Automation and omnipresent, that's how you should design your encryption. Encrypting data helps you in the following ways:
- Privacy
- Integrity
- Reliability
- Anonymity
- Use KMS: Encryption using keys rely heavily on availability and security of keys. If you have the key, you have the data. Essentially, whoever owns the key, owns the data. So, ensure that you use a reliable and secure key management infrastructure for managing all your keys. AWS KMS is a fully managed service available for all your key management needs. Use this to manage your keys for encrypting data in S3, RDS, EBS volumes, and so on. Also, ensure that you control access to these keys through IAM permissions and policies.
- Rotate your keys: Ensure that keys...
Mastering AWS Security
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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.
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Current Title:
Mastering AWS Security
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
Preface
Free Chapter
Overview of Security in AWS
AWS Identity and Access Management
AWS Virtual Private Cloud
Data Security in AWS
Securing Servers in AWS
Securing Applications in AWS
Monitoring in AWS
Logging and Auditing in AWS
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