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AWS Certified Security – Specialty Exam Guide

You're reading from  AWS Certified Security – Specialty Exam Guide

Product type Book
Published in Sep 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789534474
Pages 558 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Stuart Scott Stuart Scott
Profile icon 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 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

Shared responsibility model for abstract services

The final model we will look at is the abstract shared responsibility model, shown here:

Right away, from a visual perspective, we can see that the shift in responsibility leans even greater toward AWS.

This model retains the level of security AWS has to manage from both of the previous two models (infrastructure and container), with the addition of server-side encryption and network traffic protection. Example AWS services that fall within this model are the Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon S3.

These are defined as abstract services as almost all the control and management of the service has been abstracted away from the end customer; we simply access these services through endpoints. Customers do not have access to the underlying operating system (infrastructure) or to the actual platform that is running these services (container); instead, the customer is presented with the service frontend or endpoint...

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