Stuart Scott

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About Stuart Scott

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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AWS Certified Security – Specialty Exam Guide: Build your cloud security knowledge and expertise as an AWS Certified Security Specialist (SCS-C01) 07/09/2020

by Stuart Scott

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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.

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

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AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Guide: The ultimate exam guide to AWS Solutions Architect certification 31/10/2018

by Gabriel Ramirez, Stuart Scott

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Learn from AWS subject-matter experts, apply real-world scenarios and pass the AWS Certified Solutions Architect -Associate exam

Key Features

Build highly reliable and scalable workloads on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform
Pass the exam in less time and with confidence, thanks to mock tests
Get up and running with developing and managing applications on the AWS platform

Book Description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the current leader in the public cloud market. With an increasing global interest in leveraging cloud infrastructure, the AWS Cloud by Amazon offers a cutting-edge platform for architecting, building, and deploying web-scale cloud applications. As the rate of cloud platform increases, so does the need for cloud certification.

The AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Guide is the ideal choice to help you gain certification. The book starts off by strengtheningyour foundation of what AWS is and its prerequisites. Following this introduction, you'll get insights into the various types of AWS services such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), and Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), which will help you understand the core Amazon services. Further into the chapters, you will delve into aspects of how to design and deploy highly scalable applications. To test your knowledge and the skills you've acquired, the book's concluding chapters will wind up with a section on security concepts along with AWS best practices and mock papers.

By the end of this book, you will not only be fully prepared to pass the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate exam, but also capable of building secure and reliable applications.

What you will learn

Explore AWS terminology and identity and access management
Get to grips with important cloud services and features in categories such as compute, network, storage, and databases
Define access control to secure AWS resources and set up efficient monitoring
Back up your database and ensure high availability by understanding all database-related services in the AWS Cloud
Integrate AWS with your applications to meet and exceed non-functional requirements
Build and deploy cost-effective and highly available applications

Who this book is for

The AWS Certified Solutions Architect –Associate Guide is ideal if you are an IT professional or Solutions Architect wanting to pass the AWS Certified Solution Architect – Associate 2018 exam. This book is also suitable for developers looking to start building scalable applications on AWS.

Introduction to Amazon Web Services
AWS Global Infrastructure Overview
Elasticity and Scalability Concepts
Hybrid Cloud Architectures
Resilient Patterns
Event Driven and Stateless Architectures
Integrating Application Services
Disaster Recovery Strategies
Storage Options
Matching Supply and Demand
Introducing Amazon Elastic MapReduce
Web Scale Applications
Understanding Access Control
Encryption & Key Management
Overview of Security and Compliance Services
AWS Security best practices
Web Application Security
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