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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Working with EC2 Instances

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) provides our virtual machines as a service. In this chapter, we will learn how to secure EC2 instances. We will learn how to launch EC2 instances into custom VPCs. We learned about VPCs in Chapter 5, Network Security with VPC, so we will carry on from where we left off. We will also learn how to configure inbound and outbound access rules with security groups. We will compare security groups against network access control lists (NACLs), which we learned about in Chapter 5, Network Security with VPC. We will use the Systems Manager Parameter Store to store and retrieve data. Then, we will learn how to bootstrap an EC2 instance with commands such as installing patches. Keeping our operating system updated with the latest patches is essential for securing our EC2 instances. We will also learn how we can encrypt data in...

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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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