Book description
Delve deep into various security aspects of AWS to build and maintain a secured environment
About This Book
- Learn to secure your network, infrastructure, data, and applications in AWS cloud
- Use AWS managed security services to automate security
- Dive deep into various aspects such as the security model, compliance, access management and much more to build and maintain a secured environment
- Explore Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and its components
- Embedded with assessments that will help you revise the concepts you have learned in this book
Who This Book Is For
This book is for all IT professionals, system administrators, security analysts, solution architects, and chief information security officers who are responsible for securing workloads in AWS for their organizations.
What You Will Learn
- Get familiar with VPC components, features, and benefits
- Learn to create and secure your private network in AWS
- Explore encryption and decryption fundamentals
- Understand monitoring, logging, and auditing in AWS
- Ensure data security in AWS
- Secure your web and mobile applications in AWS
- Learn security best practices for IAM, VPC, shared security responsibility model, and so on
In Detail
With organizations moving their workloads, applications, and infrastructure to the cloud at an unprecedented pace, security of all these resources has been a paradigm shift for all those who are responsible for security; experts, novices, and apprentices alike.
This book focuses on using native AWS security features and managed AWS services to help you achieve continuous security. Starting with an introduction to Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to secure your AWS VPC, you will quickly explore various components that make up VPC such as subnets, security groups, various gateways, and many more.
You will also learn to protect data in the AWS platform for various AWS services by encrypting and decrypting data in AWS. You will also learn to secure web and mobile applications in AWS cloud.
This book is ideal for all IT professionals, system administrators, security analysts, solution architects, and chief information security officers who are responsible for securing workloads in AWS for their organizations.
This book is embedded with useful assessments that will help you revise the concepts you have learned in this book.
Style and approach
This book follows a practical approach delving into different aspects of AWS security. It focuses on using native AWS security features and managed AWS services to help you achieve continuous security.
Note: This book is a blend of text and quizzes, all packaged up keeping your journey in mind. It includes content from the following Packt product:
- Mastering AWS Security by Albert Anthony
Publisher resources
Table of contents
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AWS: Security Best Practices on AWS
- AWS: Security Best Practices on AWS
- Credits
- Preface
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1. AWS Virtual Private Cloud
- Introduction
- VPC Components
- VPC Features and Benefits
- VPC Use Cases
- VPC Security
- Creating VPC
- VPC Limits
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VPC Best Practices
- Plan Your VPC before You Create It
- Choose the Highest CIDR Block
- Unique IP Address Range
- Leave the Default VPC Alone
- Design for Region Expansion
- Tier Your Subnets
- Follow the Least Privilege Principle
- Keep Most Resources in the Private Subnet
- Creating VPCs for Different Use Cases
- Favor Security Groups over NACLs
- IAM Your VPC
- Using VPC Peering
- Using Elastic IP Instead of Public IP
- Tagging in VPC
- Monitoring a VPC
- Summary
- Assessments
- 2. Data Security in AWS
- 3. Securing Servers in AWS
- 4. Securing Applications in AWS
- 5. AWS Security Best Practices
- A. Assessment Answers
Product information
- Title: AWS: Security Best Practices on AWS
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2018
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781789134513
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