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You're reading from AWS Certified Security – Specialty Exam Guide Build your cloud security knowledge and expertise as an AWS Certified Security Specialist (SCS-C01)

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789534474

Length 558 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Cloud Security

Authors (2):

Stuart Scott

Wilberto Palomar

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Table of Contents (27) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: The Exam and Preparation

2. AWS Certified Security - Specialty Exam Coverage FREE CHAPTER

3. Section 2: Security Responsibility and Access Management

4. AWS Shared Responsibility Model

5. Access Management

6. Working with Access Policies

7. Federated and Mobile Access

8. Section 3: Security - a Layered Approach

9. Securing EC2 Instances

10. Configuring Infrastructure Security

11. Implementing Application Security

12. DDoS Protection

13. Incident Response

14. Securing Connections to Your AWS Environment

15. Section 4: Monitoring, Logging, and Auditing

16. Implementing Logging Mechanisms

17. Auditing and Governance

18. Section 5: Best Practices and Automation

19. Automating Security Detection and Remediation

20. Discovering Security Best Practices

21. Section 6: Encryption and Data Security

22. Managing Key Infrastructure

23. Managing Data Security

24. Mock Tests

25. Assessments

26. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Using the CloudWatch logging agent

As you are probably aware, Amazon CloudWatch is the main monitoring service used in AWS and collects data and metrics from all the supported AWS services. This allows you to gain a better understanding of the performance of your environment. In addition to the built-in CloudWatch metrics, CloudWatch also allows you to collect valuable logging information from many different AWS services, such as EC2 instances, Route 53, and CloudTrail.

Using CloudWatch Logs as a central repository enables you to view real-time logging information from your services, which can be filtered and queried to search for specific events or error codes that you want to be made aware of, allowing you to respond accordingly.

In this section of the chapter, I want to explain how you can use the CloudWatch logging agent on your EC2 instances to enable you to send log data generated from your EC2 instances or any applications that may be running on your instance. This log data is...

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Authors (2)

Palomar

Wilberto has More than 18 years of combined IT experience in banking, payment gateways, telecommunications, insurance and digital domain. He is currently working as a DevSecOps Lead at Lendi

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Stuart Scott

Stuart Scott is the AWS content lead at Cloud Academy where he has created over 40 courses reaching tens of thousands of students. His 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. He has written numerous cloud security blogs Cloud Academy and other AWS advanced technology partners. He has taken part in a series of cloud security webinars to share his knowledge and experience within the industry to help those looking to implement a secure and trusted environment. In January 2016 Stuart was awarded 'Expert of the Year' from Experts Exchange for his knowledge share within cloud services to the community.

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