AWS Certified Security - Specialty Exam Guide

Get to grips with the fundamentals of cloud security and prepare for the AWS Security Specialty exam with the help of this comprehensive certification guide

Key Features

• Learn the fundamentals of security with this fast-paced guide
• Develop modern cloud security skills to build effective security solutions
• Answer practice questions and take mock tests to pass the exam with confidence

Book Description

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

Who this book is for

If you are a system administrator or a security professional looking to get AWS security certification, this book is for you. Prior experience in securing cloud environments is necessary to get the most out of this AWS book.

掌握雲端安全的基礎知識，並通過這本全面的認證指南準備 AWS Security Specialty 考試。

主要特點：
- 以快節奏的指南學習安全的基礎知識
- 發展現代雲端安全技能，建立有效的安全解決方案
- 回答練習問題並參加模擬測試，自信通過考試

書籍描述：
AWS Certified Security - Specialty 是一項認證考試，驗證您在高級雲端安全方面的專業知識。隨著雲端市場對 AWS 安全技能的需求不斷增加，這項認證可以幫助您在職業生涯中取得進展。本書通過引導您構建複雜的安全解決方案，幫助您準備考試並獲得認證。

從了解 AWS 共享責任模型和身份與訪問管理，到實施訪問管理的最佳實踐，您將逐步建立您的技能。本書還將深入探討保護實例和保護 VPC 基礎設施的原則。涵蓋 DDoS 攻擊等安全威脅、漏洞和攻擊，您將了解如何在不同層面上減輕這些風險。然後，您將學習合規性，並學習如何使用 AWS 進行基礎設施的審計和管理，以及通過實施日誌機制和跟踪數據來關注環境的監控。隨後，您將探索如何實施數據加密，並在實際環境中進行安全保護。最後，您將了解有助於在成本、安全性和部署複雜性方面做出關鍵決策的安全最佳實踐。

通過閱讀本書，您將具備通過考試並設計安全的 AWS 解決方案所需的技能。

學到什麼：
- 瞭解如何識別和減輕安全事件
- 分配適當的 Amazon Web Services (AWS) 資源以支持安全需求
- 使用 AWS 共享責任模型進行工作
- 在雲端計算的不同層面上保護您的 AWS 公有雲
- 了解如何通過聯合和移動訪問實施身份驗證
- 使用 AWS 有效地監控和記錄任務

適合對象：
如果您是系統管理員或安全專業人員，並希望獲得 AWS 安全認證，本書適合您。需要有保護雲端環境的先前經驗，以充分利用本書的內容。