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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
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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

Configuring an assessment template

The assessment template consists of a number of configurable options that define how an assessment will be run against your EC2 instances that you just defined as targets. To configure it, follow these steps:

  1. Remain within the Amazon Inspector console and select Assessment Template on the left-hand side.
  2. Click the blue Create button and the following configurable page will appear:

  1. Similar to the assessment targets, you now have a number of configurable parameters to define your assessment, starting with a name for the assessment template. Ensure it is something meaningful that will identify its use.
  2. You must then select a target name using the drop-down list. Now this will list all of your assessment targets that you have created in Amazon Inspector. Select the appropriate assessment target. In this example, I have a single assessment target that I created in the previous demo called Stu_EC2_Instance:

  1. Next, you need to select a rules package....
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