AWS Certified Security – Specialty Exam Guide

Build your cloud security knowledge and expertise as an AWS Certified Security Specialist (SCS-C01)

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited

By: Wilberto Palomar and Stuart Scott

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|Jun 2024

E-Book €27.99Institutions €120.95

Description

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.

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

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PDF ISBN: 978-1-78953-726-0

Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited

Publication date: 2024

Language: English

Pages: 558

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AWS Certified Security – Specialty Exam Guide

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