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AWS Identity and Access Management

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a web service that helps you securely control access to AWS resources for your users. You use IAM to control who can use your AWS resources (authentication) and what resources they can use and in what ways (authorization).

In other words, or rather a simpler definition of IAM is as follows:

AWS IAM allows you to control who can take what actions on which resources in AWS.

IAM manages users (identities) and permissions (access control) for all AWS resources. It is offered free of charge, so you don't have to pay to use IAM. It provides you greater control, security, and elasticity while working with AWS cloud.

IAM gives you the ability to grant, segregate, monitor, and manage access for multiple users inside your organization or outside of your organization who need to interact with AWS resources...

Key benefits

• Learn to secure your network, infrastructure, data and applications in AWS cloud

• Log, monitor and audit your AWS resources for continuous security and continuous compliance in AWS cloud

• Use AWS managed security services to automate security. Focus on increasing your business rather than being diverged onto security risks and issues with AWS security.

• Delve deep into various aspects such as the security model, compliance, access management and much more to build and maintain a secure environment.

Description

Mastering AWS Security starts with a deep dive into the fundamentals of the shared security responsibility model. This book tells you how you can enable continuous security, continuous auditing, and continuous compliance by automating your security in AWS with the tools, services, and features it provides. Moving on, you will learn about access control in AWS for all resources. You will also learn about the security of your network, servers, data and applications in the AWS cloud using native AWS security services. By the end of this book, you will understand the complete AWS Security landscape, covering all aspects of end - to -end software and hardware security along with logging, auditing, and compliance of your entire IT environment in the AWS cloud. Lastly, the book will wrap up with AWS best practices for security.

Who is this book for?

This book is for all IT professionals, system administrators and security analysts, solution architects and Chief Information Security Officers who are responsible for securing workloads in AWS for their organizations. It is helpful for all Solutions Architects who want to design and implement secure architecture on AWS by the following security by design principle. This book is helpful for personnel in Auditors and Project Management role to understand how they can audit AWS workloads and how they can manage security in AWS respectively. If you are learning AWS or championing AWS adoption in your organization, you should read this book to build security in all your workloads. You will benefit from knowing about security footprint of all major AWS services for multiple domains, use cases, and scenarios.

What you will learn

•Learn about AWS Identity Management and Access control

•Gain knowledge to create and secure your private network in AWS

•Understand and secure your infrastructure in AWS

•Understand monitoring, logging and auditing in AWS

•Ensure Data Security in AWS

•Learn to secure your applications in AWS

•Explore AWS Security best practices

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Eric Vanderburg Dec 20, 2017

If you are not in the cloud today, you are not doing business right and Amazon is one of the key cloud players. Amazon’s security framework is extensive and there are many options available to cloud administrators and consumers alike. In Mastering AWS Security, Albert Anthony provides a comprehensive review of Amazon’s security features including AWS IAM, AWS VPC, AWS KMS, AWS Shield, AWS WAF, AWS CloudTrail, AWS Config, AWS Artifact, and AWS CloudWatch.Mastering AWS Security is organized well beginning with the AWS shared security responsibility model and an overview of Amazon’s main security technologies and then going through the remaining areas functionally. Anthony divided the book into seven major functional areas: (1)Identity, (2)AWS Private Cloud, (3)Data Security, (4)Server Security, (5)Application Security, (6)Monitoring, and finally (7)Auditing. The book closes with some best practices for each of the functional areas.I enjoyed reading this book and think it is a great resource for IT professionals using AWS and for those interested in cloud security. In about 200 pages of content, Anthony is able to provide good depth to the subject matter without it feeling like a series of Amazon guides or whitepapers. The book is definitely one to read.

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Stephen Geier Jun 27, 2019

A few errors (NACLs are not stateful ) but otherwise very comprehensive and excellent information. Very helpful in understanding and studying for the security specialization cert

Dwayne Monroe Jan 05, 2018

In 2017 there were quite a few news stories about 'cloud security breaches' that were actually caused by misconfigured S3 buckets and other errors. Clearly, there’s a very large gap between what IT organizations know, and what’s required to secure solutions built on AWS. Albert Anthony’s book, Mastering AWS Security is a welcome and high-quality contribution to the ongoing effort to close this gap.Appropriately, Anthony starts with an overview of the often-misunderstood shared security modelThis is the key — in fact, I’d go so far as to say foundational — concept AWS cloud architects must understand as they design solutions and it’s a sure sign of a professional that Anthony begins his book with a careful overview of the shared sec model.Anthony dives deeper into the shared security model as it applies to three main categories of AWS services:Infrastructure Services (EC2 virtual machines, Elastic Block Storage and Virtual Private Cloud)Container Services (which require the proper configuration of IAM roles for offerings such as Elastic Map Reduce and Relational Database Services)Abstracted Services (I.e., services that are accessed via API and offerings such as DynamoDB, Amazon SQS, and S3)The book’s first chapter, which is almost completely devoted to a comprehensive overview of the shared security model — what it means and how it specifically applies to different AWS services — is one of the best treatments of that topic I’ve read to date.Subsequent chapters intelligently build on the first’s foundation, guiding us through:AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM, another, commonly misunderstood topic)Securing AWS Virtual Private Clouds (VPC)Data Security in AWS (securing your data both in transit and at rest and, using data encryption CloudHSM, Amazon Macie, which is particularly useful for organizations concerned about handling sensitive information types, and AWS KMS)Securing Servers in AWS (EC2 security best practices including using IAM roles, controlling access to the server OS and other measures common to server operations generally)Securing applications built on AWS using the Web Application Firewall(among other measures)Anthony’s tour of AWS security is deep and comprehensive, and this review is only scratching the surface of the areas covered (such as auditing and monitoring using CloudWatch and Cloudtrail).By gathering all of the relevant, critical AWS security practices information under one umbrella and presenting it in an engaging and clear way, Albert Anthony has provided us with an excellent resource which, every AWS solutions architect should have in their library.

Suraj p. Oct 29, 2018

Good book for AWS security buy it from Amazon .

Luis Gubler Herrera Jun 25, 2018

As a small tech entrepreneur, reliant on AWS, I cannot afford to hire security advisors on a regular basis. So I require a basic understanding of AWS security best practices and options. This book gave me a great overview which I can now complement with youtube videos and other sources. I am able to second guess security advisors as well.

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