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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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Wilberto Palomar Wilberto Palomar
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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

Access Advisor

The Access Advisor tab allows you to determine when your identities associated with the permissions accessed the different services relating to the policy. In the following screenshot, we can see that user Stuart has not accessed S3 using these permissions for 917 days. With that in mind, it would be a good idea to remove this level of permission for the user as we can safely assume that he is not using it. Leaving these excessive permissions causes a security risk, should his credentials be compromised:

This tab can help you easily identify any policies that are granting more permission than is actually being used, which can lead to a security risk. Removing unnecessary permissions is essential in helping to ensure you have a robust security posture.

With this, we have come to the end of our section on managing policies. Remember that since you are likely to accumulate and use a long list of policies over time, managing these policies efficiently becomes of...

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