Get to grips with the fundamentals of cloud security and prepare for
the AWS Security Specialty exam with the help of this comprehensive
certification guide
Key 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 Description
AWS 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 for
If 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.
