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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AWS Certified Security – Specialty is a certification exam to validate your expertise in advanced cloud security. With an ever-increasing demand for AWS security skills in the cloud market, this certification can help you advance in your career. This book helps you prepare for the exam and gain certification by guiding you through building complex security solutions. From understanding the AWS shared responsibility model and identity and access management to implementing access management best practices, you'll gradually build on your skills. The book will also delve into securing instances and the principles of securing VPC infrastructure. Covering security threats, vulnerabilities, and attacks such as the DDoS attack, you'll discover how to mitigate these at different layers. You'll then cover compliance and learn how to use AWS to audit and govern infrastructure, as well as to focus on monitoring your environment by implementing logging mechanisms and tracking data. Later, you'll explore how to implement data encryption as you get hands-on with securing a live environment. Finally, you'll discover security best practices that will assist you in making critical decisions relating to cost, security,and deployment complexity. By the end of this AWS security book, you'll have the skills to pass the exam and design secure AWS solutions.

What you will learn

Understand how to identify and mitigate security incidents

Assign appropriate Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources to underpin security requirements

Work with the AWS shared responsibility model

Secure your AWS public cloud in different layers of cloud computing

Discover how to implement authentication through federated and mobile access

Monitor and log tasks effectively using AWS

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Jesus Oct 16, 2020

Well an excellent book, very well designed and explanation of all AWS Security Topic. In my own experience work really well together with the videos, Stuart has on Cloud Academy, as to reinforce all the material. I do recommend anyone interested in AWS Security Specialty, to get this excellent book. Thanks

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s Sep 14, 2020

*Disclosure: I was sent an early copy for review*This book does a great job of providing readers with an overview of AWS Security that would be covered on the AWS Certified Security - Specialty exam. Readers don't need to have a comprehensive security or AWS background to read and understand the book and was a great refresher for me (a season AWS Security architect). In addition there are questions at the end of each chapter and a full exam at the end of the book to prepare you for the exam.

Eric M Sep 25, 2020

The book covers the majority of topics that you’d expect to see on the exam. I really enjoyed the walkthroughs and demos given throughout the book. Topics are explained in a way that's easy to digest and understand which made it a valuable resource for my studies for this cert.

Just Some Guy Jul 21, 2022

First of all, I'm never going to take the AWS Security Exam - that's not why I bought this book. As a developer building apps/IaC on AWS, I was hoping this book would offer a top-to-bottom overview on security on AWS. I'm happy to say it does just that.The book basically covers every aspect of security across most of the relevant AWS services and components - covering everything from keys and secrets, to IAM user/group/roles permissions, to networking, data management, auditing/logging/incident response, and more. It's covers a ton of ground.The author offer a number of step-by-step tutorials along the way on many of the most broadly important topics. Many more areas get more limited coverage - but links to further docs on AWS (and sometimes other articles/links) are usually included for further reading (should you see fit).My only real complaint about the book is that it's pretty light on CLI examples – most of the material focuses on getting things done in AWS Console (i.e. the browser). That said, what's nice is that the book includes tons of screenshots at every chapter, so you can easily make it thru the book without opening the browser at all and it will all still make sense (that's what I did).At 483 pages of content (not counting the sample exam in the last chapter) it seems like a heavy read, but thanks to all the screenshots and other graphics/code/etc., it's actually a quick and easy read – I read it all in 3 days.Final word: I don't know how well this will prepare you for the AWS Certification, but this is a great book for anyone in product/dev/ops who wants a complete overview of all things security on AWS (with plenty of good advice and best practices along the way). I highly recommend it.

Catalin Sep 21, 2020

I passed today the exam and I must say that the book really completed the video courses, whitepapers, reinvent and reinforce sessions. And of course the hands on real life experience.Since I've seen the book planned to be published I was really execited to get my hands on it and knowing Stuart's expertise from cloudacademy courses, I knew it will be a rich and well written book. And indeed it is.I've been playing around with AWS since 2015, and it's a challenge to keep up to date with what AWS releases almost every month, however despite some changed in the screenshots that you may find and some formatting issues on kindle, the details captured in the book are really a foundation for the exam, not forgetting about the mock exams.In my opinion maybe some personal recommendations and challenges for the reader will enrich this security journey on AWS.

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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