Palomar / Scott AWS Certified Security – Specialty Exam Guide

Build your cloud security knowledge and expertise as an AWS Certified Security Specialist (SCS-C01)
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-78953-726-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 558 Seiten

Get to grips with the fundamentals of cloud security and prepare for the AWS Security Specialty exam with the help of this comprehensive certification guideKey Features - Learn the fundamentals of security with this fast-paced guide
- Develop modern cloud security skills to build effective security solutions
- Answer practice questions and take mock tests to pass the exam with confidence
Book DescriptionAWS Certified Security – Specialty is a certification exam to validate your expertise in advanced cloud security. With an ever-increasing demand for AWS security skills in the cloud market, this certification can help you advance in your career. This book helps you prepare for the exam and gain certification by guiding you through building complex security solutions. From understanding the AWS shared responsibility model and identity and access management to implementing access management best practices, you'll gradually build on your skills. The book will also delve into securing instances and the principles of securing VPC infrastructure. Covering security threats, vulnerabilities, and attacks such as the DDoS attack, you'll discover how to mitigate these at different layers. You'll then cover compliance and learn how to use AWS to audit and govern infrastructure, as well as to focus on monitoring your environment by implementing logging mechanisms and tracking data. Later, you'll explore how to implement data encryption as you get hands-on with securing a live environment. Finally, you'll discover security best practices that will assist you in making critical decisions relating to cost, security,and deployment complexity. By the end of this AWS security book, you'll have the skills to pass the exam and design secure AWS solutions.What you will learn - Understand how to identify and mitigate security incidents
- Assign appropriate Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources to underpin security requirements
- Work with the AWS shared responsibility model
- Secure your AWS public cloud in different layers of cloud computing
- Discover how to implement authentication through federated and mobile access
- Monitor and log tasks effectively using AWS
Who this book is forIf you are a system administrator or a security professional looking to get AWS security certification, this book is for you. Prior experience in securing cloud environments is necessary to get the most out of this AWS book.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Palomar, Wilberto

Scott, Stuart

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Computerkommunikation & -vernetzung Netzwerksicherheit
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Technische Informatik Computersicherheit
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein EDV: Zertifizierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents - AWS Certified Security Specialty Exam Coverage
- AWS Shared Responsibility Model
- Access Management
- Working with Access Policies
- Federated and Mobile Access
- Securing EC2 Instances
- Configuring Infrastructure Security
- Implementing Application Security
- DDoS Protection
- Incident Response
- Securing Connections to your AWS Environment
- Implementing Logging Mechanisms
- Auditing and Governance
- Automating Security Detection and Remediation
- Discovering Security Best Practices
- Managing Key Infrastructure
- Managing Data Security
- Mock Tests

Über Autor(innen)

Scott Stuart :

Stuart Scott is the AWS content lead at Cloud Academy where he has created over 40 courses reaching tens of thousands of students. His content focuses heavily on cloud security and compliance, specifically on how to implement and configure AWS services to protect, monitor and secure customer data in an AWS environment. He has written numerous cloud security blogs Cloud Academy and other AWS advanced technology partners. He has taken part in a series of cloud security webinars to share his knowledge and experience within the industry to help those looking to implement a secure and trusted environment. In January 2016 Stuart was awarded 'Expert of the Year' from Experts Exchange for his knowledge share within cloud services to the community.