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AWS: Security Best Practices on AWS

You're reading from AWS: Security Best Practices on AWS Learn to secure your data, servers, and applications with AWS

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789134513

Length 118 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Cloud Security

Author (1):

Albert Anthony

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Table of Contents (9) Chapters

AWS: Security Best Practices on AWS

Credits

Preface

1. AWS Virtual Private Cloud FREE CHAPTER

2. Data Security in AWS

3. Securing Servers in AWS

4. Securing Applications in AWS

5. AWS Security Best Practices

Assessment Answers

Amazon Inspector

Amazon Inspector is an automated, agent-based security and vulnerability assessment service for your AWS resources. As of now, it supports only EC2 instances. It essentially complements devops culture in an organization, and it integrates with continuous integration and continuous deployment tools.

To begin with, you install an agent in your EC2 instance, prepare an assessment template, and run a security assessment for this EC2 instance.

Amazon Inspector will collect data related to running processes, the network, the filesystem and lot of data related to configuration, the traffic flow between AWS services and network, the secure channels, and so on.

Once this data is collected, it is validated against a set of predefined rules known as the rules package, that you choose in your assessment template, and you are provided with detailed findings and issues related to security, categorized by severity.

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Authors (1)

Albert Anthony

Albert Anthony

Albert Anthony is a seasoned IT professional with 18 years of experience working with various technologies and in multiple teams spread all across the globe. He believes that the primary purpose of information technology is to solve problems faced by businesses and organizations. He is an AWS certified solutions architect and a corporate trainer. He holds all three AWS associate-level certifications along with PMI-PMP and Certified Scrum Master certifications. He has been training since 2008 on project management, cost management, and people management, and on AWS since 2016. He has managed multiple projects on AWS that runs big data applications, hybrid mobile application development, DevOps, and infrastructure monitoring on AWS. He has successfully migrated multiple workloads to AWS from on-premise data centers and other hosting providers. He is responsible for securing workloads for all his customers, with hundreds of servers; processing TBs of data; and running multiple web, mobile, and batch applications.

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