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AWS Certified Security – Specialty Exam Guide

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Product type Book
Published in Sep 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789534474
Pages 558 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Stuart Scott Stuart Scott
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Stuart Scott is the AWS content lead at Cloud Academy where he has created over 40 courses reaching tens of thousands of students. His content focuses heavily on cloud security and compliance, specifically on how to implement and configure AWS services to protect, monitor and secure customer data in an AWS environment. He has written numerous cloud security blogs Cloud Academy and other AWS advanced technology partners. He has taken part in a series of cloud security webinars to share his knowledge and experience within the industry to help those looking to implement a secure and trusted environment. In January 2016 Stuart was awarded 'Expert of the Year' from Experts Exchange for his knowledge share within cloud services to the community.
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Preface 1. Section 1: The Exam and Preparation
2. AWS Certified Security - Specialty Exam Coverage 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 the CloudWatch logging agent

As you are probably aware, Amazon CloudWatch is the main monitoring service used in AWS and collects data and metrics from all the supported AWS services. This allows you to gain a better understanding of the performance of your environment. In addition to the built-in CloudWatch metrics, CloudWatch also allows you to collect valuable logging information from many different AWS services, such as EC2 instances, Route 53, and CloudTrail.

Using CloudWatch Logs as a central repository enables you to view real-time logging information from your services, which can be filtered and queried to search for specific events or error codes that you want to be made aware of, allowing you to respond accordingly.

In this section of the chapter, I want to explain how you can use the CloudWatch logging agent on your EC2 instances to enable you to send log data generated from your EC2 instances or any applications that may be running on your instance. This log data is...

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Stuart Scott is the AWS content lead at Cloud Academy where he has created over 40 courses reaching tens of thousands of students. His content focuses heavily on cloud security and compliance, specifically on how to implement and configure AWS services to protect, monitor and secure customer data in an AWS environment. He has written numerous cloud security blogs Cloud Academy and other AWS advanced technology partners. He has taken part in a series of cloud security webinars to share his knowledge and experience within the industry to help those looking to implement a secure and trusted environment. In January 2016 Stuart was awarded 'Expert of the Year' from Experts Exchange for his knowledge share within cloud services to the community.
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