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Implementing Identity Management on AWS

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Product type Book
Published in Oct 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800562288
Pages 504 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Jon Lehtinen Jon Lehtinen
Profile icon Jon Lehtinen

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface Section 1: IAM and AWS – Critical Concepts, Definitions, and Tools
Chapter 1: An Introduction to IAM and AWS IAM Concepts Chapter 2: An Introduction to the AWS CLI Chapter 3: IAM User Management Chapter 4: Access Management, Policies, and Permissions Chapter 5: Introducing Amazon Cognito Chapter 6: Introduction to AWS Organizations and AWS Single Sign-On Chapter 7: Other AWS Identity Services Section 2: Implementing IAM on AWS for Administrative Use Cases
Chapter 8: An Ounce of Prevention – Planning Your Administrative Model Chapter 9: Bringing Your Admins into the AWS Administrative Backplane Chapter 10: Administrative Single Sign-On to the AWS Backplane Section 3: Implementing IAM on AWS for Application Use Cases
Chapter 11: Bringing Your Users into AWS Chapter 12: AWS-Hosted Application Single Sign-On Using an Existing Identity Provider Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding AWS Directory Service

Microsoft AD is a complex and feature-rich enterprise directory service. Beyond basic LDAP capabilities for user management and authentication, it can also be used for machine management, including device authentication and authorization, DNS, certificate authority services, endpoint policy management and enforcement, and federation services. Over the years, it has been positioned and marketed as a one-stop-shop for enterprise workloads. Unfortunately, the feature-richness that made AD an enterprise mainstay for over 20 years is also why it can become insecure or misconfigured. This is why AD implementations are at the heart of so many security incidents. Its monolithic nature, broad set of services, and wide network port utilization also make it a tempting target for bad actors and limit its capability to securely operate outside of an established network perimeter.

Though traditional on-premises AD may not be naturally suited for an internet...

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