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AWS Certified Security – Specialty Exam Guide: Build your cloud security knowledge and expertise as an AWS Certified Security Specialist (SCS-C01) Paperback – Illustrated, 7 September 2020
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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.
Table of Contents
- AWS Certified Security Specialty Exam Coverage
- AWS Shared Responsibility Model
- Access Management
- Working with Access Policies
- Federated and Mobile Access
- Securing EC2 Instances
- Configuring Infrastructure Security
- Implementing Application Security
- DDoS Protection
- Incident Response
- Securing Connections to your AWS Environment
- Implementing Logging Mechanisms
- Auditing and Governance
- Automating Security Detection and Remediation
- Discovering Security Best Practices
- Managing Key Infrastructure
- Managing Data Security
- Mock Tests
- Print length558 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherPackt Publishing
- Publication date7 September 2020
- Dimensions19.05 x 3.2 x 23.5 cm
- ISBN-10178953447X
- ISBN-13978-1789534474
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Product details
- Publisher : Packt Publishing; Illustrated edition (7 September 2020)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 558 pages
- ISBN-10 : 178953447X
- ISBN-13 : 978-1789534474
- Dimensions : 19.05 x 3.2 x 23.5 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 150,147 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 113 in Computer Security Certifications
- 230 in Network Security
- 430 in Internet & Telecommunications
- Customer Reviews:
About the author

I am currently the AWS Content Director at Cloud Academy (cloudacademy.com) where I have created over 150 courses reaching over 180,000 students. My content focuses heavily on cloud security and compliance, specifically on how to implement and configure AWS services to protect, monitor, and secure customer data in an AWS environment.
I have written many Cloud security blogs and have taken part in a series of security webinars with leading AWS partners.
I am currently a member of the AWS Community Builder Program which provides technical resources, mentorship, and networking opportunities to AWS enthusiasts and emerging thought leaders who are passionate about sharing knowledge and connecting with the technical community.
I am also a certified expert for Experts Exchange for my public contributions regarding AWS and its services.
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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.


