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AWS Certified Security – Specialty Exam Guide

You're reading from   AWS Certified Security – Specialty Exam Guide Build your cloud security knowledge and expertise as an AWS Certified Security Specialist (SCS-C01)

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789534474
Length 558 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Stuart Scott Stuart Scott
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Table of Contents (27) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: The Exam and Preparation
2. AWS Certified Security - Specialty Exam Coverage FREE CHAPTER 3. Section 2: Security Responsibility and Access Management
4. AWS Shared Responsibility Model 5. Access Management 6. Working with Access Policies 7. Federated and Mobile Access 8. Section 3: Security - a Layered Approach
9. Securing EC2 Instances 10. Configuring Infrastructure Security 11. Implementing Application Security 12. DDoS Protection 13. Incident Response 14. Securing Connections to Your AWS Environment 15. Section 4: Monitoring, Logging, and Auditing
16. Implementing Logging Mechanisms 17. Auditing and Governance 18. Section 5: Best Practices and Automation
19. Automating Security Detection and Remediation 20. Discovering Security Best Practices 21. Section 6: Encryption and Data Security
22. Managing Key Infrastructure 23. Managing Data Security 24. Mock Tests 25. Assessments 26. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using Amazon GuardDuty

For those of you who are unfamiliar with GuardDuty, it is a fully managed, intelligent threat-detection service, powered by machine learning, that continually provides insights into unusual and/or unexpected behavioral patterns that could be considered malicious within your account. Amazon GuardDuty can process and analyze millions of events that are captured through your AWS CloudTrail logs, DNS logs, and VPC flow logs from multiple accounts. These events are then referenced against numerous threat detection feeds, many of which contain known sources of malicious activity, including specific URLs and IP addresses.

Amazon GuardDuty is continually learning, based on the day-to-day activity of operations within your account, to understand and differentiate between normal behavior and what could be considered abnormal behavior, thereby indicating a threat within your infrastructure. This behavioral-based analysis allows GuardDuty to detect potential vulnerabilities...

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