You're reading from AWS Security Cookbook Practical solutions for securing AWS cloud infrastructure with essential services and best practices

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781835081891

Length 428 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Concepts

Cloud Security

Author (1):

Kanikathottu

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Setting Up AWS Accounts and Organization

2. Chapter 2: Access Management with IAM Policies and Roles FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Key Management with KMS and CloudHSM

4. Chapter 4: Securing Data on S3 with Policies and Techniques

5. Chapter 5: Network and EC2 Security with VPCs

6. Chapter 6: Web Security Using Certificates, CDNs, and Firewalls

7. Chapter 7: Monitoring with CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and Config

8. Chapter 8: Compliance with GuardDuty, Macie, Inspector, and Analyzer

9. Chapter 9: Advanced Identity and Directory Management

10. Chapter 10: Additional Services and Practices for AWS Security

11. Index

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