AWS Security

Running your systems in the cloud doesnt automatically make them secure. Learn the tools and new management approaches you need to create secure apps and infrastructure on AWS.

In AWS Security youll learn how to:

    Securely grant access to AWS resources to coworkers and customers
    Develop policies for ensuring proper access controls
    Lock-down network controls using VPCs
    Record audit logs and use them to identify attacks
    Track and assess the security of an AWS account
    Counter common attacks and vulnerabilities

Written by security engineer Dylan Shields, AWS Security provides comprehensive coverage on the key tools and concepts you can use to defend AWS-based systems. Youll learn how to honestly assess your existing security protocols, protect against the most common attacks on cloud applications, and apply best practices to configuring identity and access management and virtual private clouds.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the technology
AWS provides a suite of strong security services, but its up to you to configure them correctly for your applications and data. Cloud platforms require you to learn new techniques for identity management, authentication, monitoring, and other key security practices. This book gives you everything youll need to defend your AWS-based applications from the most common threats facing your business.

About the book
AWS Security is the guide to AWS security services youll want on hand when youre facing any cloud security problem. Because its organized around the most important security tasks, youll quickly find best practices for data protection, auditing, incident response, and more. As you go, youll explore several insecure applications, deconstruct the exploits used to attack them, and learn how to react with confidence.

What\'s inside

    Develop policies for proper access control
    Securely assign access to AWS resources
    Lock-down network controls using VPCs
    Record audit logs and use them to identify attacks
    Track and assess the security of an AWS account

About the reader
For software and security engineers building and securing AWS applications.

About the author
Dylan Shields is a software engineer working on Quantum Computing at Amazon. Dylan was one of the first engineers on the AWS Security Hub team.

Table of Contents
1 Introduction to AWS security
2 Identity and access management
3 Managing accounts
4 Policies and procedures for secure access
5 Securing the network: The virtual private cloud
6 Network access protection beyond the VPC
7 Protecting data in the cloud
8 Logging and audit trails
9 Continuous monitoring
10 Incident response and remediation
11 Securing a real-world application

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161729733X

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978-1617297335

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Manning

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312

Dylan Shields

Dylan Shields is a Software and Security Engineer working at Amazon. There he's worked on security f ...

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"A comprehensive book on AWS security by someone who knows what he's
talking about."
Peter Singhof, NTT DATA Germany

"Provides the conceptual framework to understand cloud security.
Dylan's experience is evident in his clear and practical
explanations."
Amado Gramajo, NASDAQ

"Learn AWS security through real-world scenarios."
Sanjeev Jaiswal, Lifesight

"There are few authors who know as much about AWS security as Dylan
Shields."
Victor Durn, Kaldi AI

About the Author

Dylan Shields is a software engineer working on Quantum Computing at AWS. Previously, Dylan was the first engineer on the AWS Security Hub team. He has also worked at Google Cloud, focusing on the security and reliability of their serverless data warehouse, BigQuery.

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