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AWS: Security Best Practices on AWS

By : Albert Anthony
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AWS: Security Best Practices on AWS

By: Albert Anthony

Overview of this book

With organizations moving their workloads, applications, and infrastructure to the cloud at an unprecedented pace, security of all these resources has been a paradigm shift for all those who are responsible for security; experts, novices, and apprentices alike. This book focuses on using native AWS security features and managed AWS services to help you achieve continuous security. Starting with an introduction to Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to secure your AWS VPC, you will quickly explore various components that make up VPC such as subnets, security groups, various gateways, and many more. You will also learn to protect data in the AWS platform for various AWS services by encrypting and decrypting data in AWS. You will also learn to secure web and mobile applications in AWS cloud. This book is ideal for all IT professionals, system administrators, security analysts, solution architects, and chief information security officers who are responsible for securing workloads in AWS for their organizations. This book is embedded with useful assessments that will help you revise the concepts you have learned in this book. This book is repurposed for this specific learning experience from material from Packt's Mastering AWS Security, written by Albert Anthony.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Summary


In this lesson, we learned about securing applications that are built on top of AWS resources. We went through WAF in detail to protect web applications in AWS and learned 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 the next lesson, AWS Security Best Practices, we will learn about AWS security best practices. It will be a culmination of all that we have learned so far in all the previous lessons regarding security in AWS. We will learn about solutions to ensure that best practices are met for all topics such as IAM, VPC, security of data, security...