Course Introduction
AWS IAM
Trusted Advisor
Protecting Web Apps with AWS WAF
AWS Shield
Amazon GuardDuty
AWS Security Hub
CloudHSM
The course is part of this learning path
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.
AWS Security Hub allows you to start consolidating security findings and alerts across accounts and provider products and display results into a single dashboard. It gives you a way to centrally view and manage security alerts and automate security checks to quickly understand the situation and respond to security issues as they take place. AWS Security Hub integrates with multiple AWS services like Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Inspector and Amazon Macie.
There are more services that integrate with Security Hub including third party products. The following services are able to send findings to Security Hub, and they are: AWS Firewall Manager, Amazon GuardDuty, Identity and Access Management Access Analyzer, Amazon Inspector, Amazon Macie, AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager, AWS Systems Manager Explorer and OpsCenter, and Amazon Detective.
The Amazon Detective integration allows you to switch back and forth from Security Hub to Detective and investigate a security finding. Security Hub is also able to integrate with security solutions by members of the AWS Partner Network. You will want to visit the integrations section in the Security Hub service documentation. As of this recording, there are over 60 integrations available for the Security Hub service from vendors like Symantec, Sumo Logic, Splunk, Atlassian, Slack, ServiceNow, RackSpace, Palo Alto Networks, PagerDuty, CloudStrike and many more. Security Hub runs continuous, account-level configuration and security checks based on AWS best practices and industry standards. It provides the result of these checks as a readiness score, and identifies specific accounts and resources that require attention. The result is reduced effort to collect, prioritize and remediate security findings.
Stuart has been working within the IT industry for two decades covering a huge range of topic areas and technologies, from data center and network infrastructure design, to cloud architecture and implementation.
To date, Stuart has created 150+ courses relating to Cloud reaching over 180,000 students, mostly within the AWS category and with a heavy focus on security and compliance.
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