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AWS Security Foundations For Dummies

After reading this guide, you will be able to:

Enact best cloud security practices for your AWS environment 

Protect your org’s AWS resources, identities, and and access

Respond to AWS security incidents

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Key takeaways

Cloud best practices:
Data, applications, and services are rapidly migrating to cloud environments,
fundamentally reshaping how businesses operate and secure their digital infrastructure.

How to protect your org:
Traditional security models are becoming obsolete in the face of cloud computing's complex, distributed nature.

How to respond to threats:
This essential guide offers a user-friendly, in-depth exploration of the most critical security principles for Amazon Web Services.


Is this guide for me?

This guide is CISOs, Cloud security directors and architects working with or planning to use AWS for their cloud. It contains everything you would need to get up to speed on AWS as both a strategic lead and a practitioner.


What’s included

  • AWS security foundations:

    Explains how responsibility is divided between the provider and the customer and what kinds of actions customers can take to cover their side of the ledger.

  • Securing AWS infrastrure:

    Employing zero trust to protectyour environment at every layer, including hosts, applications, and the network

  • Protecting identity and permissions:

    Using best practices, tools, and approaches to identify users, and make sure they can access the right stuff for the right reasons at theright time.