Mastering AWS Security: Create and maintain a secure cloud ecosystem - Softcover

Anthony, Albert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 178829372X ISBN 13: 9781788293723

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

An informative guide to implementing and using AWS security services effectively

About This Book

• Learn to secure your network, infrastructure, data and applications in AWS cloud
• Log, monitor and audit your AWS resources for continuous security and continuous compliance in AWS cloud
• Use AWS managed security services to automate security, and focus on your business rather than being distracted by security risks and issues with AWS security
• Cover topics including the security model, compliance, access management and much more to build and maintain a secure environment

Who This Book Is For

This book is for all IT professionals, system administrators and security analysts, solution architects and Chief Information Security Officers who are responsible for securing workloads in AWS for their organizations. Master AWS Security is helpful for all Solutions Architects who want to design and implement secure architecture on AWS by the following security by design principle, and is beneficial for personnel in Auditors and Project Management roles who want to understand how they can audit AWS workloads and manage security in AWS.

If you're learning AWS or championing AWS adoption in your organization, you should read this book to build security in all your workloads. You'll benefit from understanding the security footprint of all major AWS services for multiple domains, use cases, and scenarios.

What You Will Learn

• Learn about AWS Identity Management and Access control
• Gain knowledge to create and secure your private network in AWS
• Understand and secure your infrastructure in AWS
• Understand monitoring, logging and auditing in AWS
• Ensure Data Security in AWS
• Learn to secure your applications in AWS
• Explore AWS Security best practices

In Detail

Mastering AWS Security starts with an exploration of the fundamentals of the shared security responsibility model. This book tells you how you can enable continuous security, continuous auditing, and continuous compliance by automating security in AWS with the tools, services, and features available.

Moving on, you'll learn about access control in AWS for all resources. You'll also cover the security of your network, servers, data and applications in the AWS cloud using native AWS security services.

By the end of this book, you will understand the complete AWS Security landscape, covering all aspects of end-to-end software and hardware security along with logging, auditing, and compliance of your entire IT environment in the AWS cloud.

Lastly, Mastering AWS Security wraps up with AWS best practices for security.

Style and approach

This book takes a practical approach delving into different aspects of AWS security, focusing on using native AWS security features and managed AWS services to help you achieve continuous security and continuous compliance.

Table of Contents

1. Overview of Security in AWS
2. AWS Identity and Access Management
3. AWS Virtual Private Cloud
4. Data Security in AWS
5. Securing Servers in AWS
6. Securing Applications in AWS
7. Monitoring in AWS
8. Logging and Auditing in AWS
9. AWS Security Best Practices

About this title

About the Author

Albert Anthony is a seasoned IT professional with 18 years of experience working with various technologies and in multiple teams spread all across the globe. He believes that the primary purpose of information technology is to solve problems faced by businesses and organizations. He is an AWS certified solutions architect and a corporate trainer. He holds all three AWS associate-level certifications along with PMI-PMP and Certified Scrum Master certifications. He has been training since 2008 on project management, cost management, and people management, and on AWS since 2016.

He has managed multiple projects on AWS that runs big data applications, hybrid mobile application development, DevOps, and infrastructure monitoring on AWS. He has successfully migrated multiple workloads to AWS from on-premise data centers and other hosting providers. He is responsible for securing workloads for all his customers, with hundreds of servers; processing TBs of data; and running multiple web, mobile, and batch applications. As well as this, he and his team has saved their customers millions of dollars by optimizing usage of their AWS resources and following AWS best practices.

Albert has worked with organizations of all shapes and sizes in India, the USA, and the Middle East. He has worked with government organizations, non-profit organizations, banks and financial institutions, and others to deliver transformational projects. He has worked as a programmer, system analyst, project manager, and senior engineering manager throughout his career. He is the founder of a cloud training and consulting startup, LovesCloud, in New Delhi, India.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 178829372X
• ISBN 13: 9781788293723
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 252