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You're reading from AWS Security Cookbook Practical solutions for managing security policies, monitoring, auditing, and compliance with AWS

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838826253

Length 440 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Cloud Security

Author (1):

Heartin Kanikathottu

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. Managing AWS Accounts with IAM and Organizations

2. Securing Data on S3 with Policies and Techniques FREE CHAPTER

3. User Pools and Identity Pools with Cognito

4. Key Management with KMS and CloudHSM

5. Network Security with VPC

6. Working with EC2 Instances

7. Web Security Using ELBs, CloudFront, and WAF

8. Monitoring with CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and Config

9. Compliance with GuardDuty, Macie, and Inspector

10. Additional Services and Practices for AWS Security

11. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Compliance with GuardDuty, Macie, and Inspector

Regularly checking for compliance within our account and being notified if anything is not compliant is an important step toward keeping our account secure. In this chapter, we will learn about some services within AWS that can help us in achieving security by checking compliance, with the help of additional intelligence and rules. We will learn about Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Macie, and Amazon Inspector, which use machine learning and advanced algorithms to help us in checking for compliance.

This chapter will cover the following recipes:

Setting up and using Amazon GuardDuty
Aggregating findings from multiple accounts in GuardDuty
Setting up and using Amazon Macie
Setting up and using Amazon Inspector
Creating a custom Inspector template

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Authors (1)

Kanikathottu

Heartin Kanikathottu is an accomplished cloud architect renowned for leading technological transformations in cloud computing and security at prestigious organizations. He is also a prolific author recognized globally, with his book, AWS Security Cookbook, First Edition, being named the eighth best in cloud computing by BookAuthority in 2020. His impressive career includes roles as founder of Trainso and Coding Architect Canada, vice president at Morgan Stanley, principal architect at Societe Generale, and cloud and security architect at VMware. He has also worked at TCS, SAP Ariba, and IG Group. He holds over 15 professional certifications from Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, Pivotal, and IBM, and dual master's degrees in cloud computing and data analytics. He is also a regular speaker at many technical forums.

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