In this section of the AWS Certified: SAP on AWS Specialty learning path, we introduce you to the various Security services currently available in AWS that are relevant to the PAS-C01 exam.
Learning Objectives
- Understand the purpose of AWS user and identity management
- Identify resources and capabilities for AWS network security
- Understand how to evaluate the security of an AWS environment
- Describe AWS services used to create a comprehensive security solution for SAP deployments
Prerequisites
The AWS Certified: SAP on AWS Specialty certification has been designed for anyone who has experience managing and operating SAP workloads. Ideally you’ll also have some exposure to the design and implementation of SAP workloads on AWS, including migrating these workloads from on-premises environments. Many exam questions will require a solutions architect level of knowledge for many AWS services, including AWS Security services. All of the AWS Cloud concepts introduced in this course will be explained and reinforced from the ground up.
We started with AWS Security Hub and we're about to close with a discussion of AWS Security Hub. Security Hub helps you automate security checks, manage security issues and identify the highest priority security findings in your AWS implementation. It automatically checks that you're taking the right steps towards the security implementation and aggregates findings from a dozen AWS services, including Inspector, GuardDuty, and Macie among others as discussed previously. It also automates checks for CIS AWS Foundational Security Best Practices version 1.0 and provides a security and compliance score based on it.
For this demonstration, we open a brand new account with AWS and implemented the steps discussed earlier including enabling AWS Security Hub and the AWS Foundational Security Best Practices version one to obtain a score. Logging into the console and navigating to the AWS Security Hub dashboard, we get to see these findings. As you get to see, we obtained a good score. It's not 100. and that is because the account was misconfigured at the beginning on purpose in order to test some of the services discussed in this presentation.
Following those tests for AWS Config, GuardDuty, and Macie, we took all the needed corrections. This is our final score after implementing all of the best practices mentioned earlier for AWS Identity and Access Management. As well as sealing public access to all Amazon S3 buckets. I hope you now have a basic understanding of AWS Security Hub, Security Best Practices, and some of the other security services AWS makes available to you. Again, AWS security is to be taken seriously. Fortunately, we have tools like AWS Security Hub available to get your security implementation compliant with best practices.
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