AWS Certified Security - Specialty Exam Guide

What I like in this book is1. The book chapters were organized in a very good manner.2. The book has 18 chapters and it covered all most every topic related to AWS Security Specialist exams.3. All the concepts were explained in a simple manner with proper examples.4. The topics are updated ones and relevant to the exam.5. The mock tests are good to practice the exam.

I highly recommend this book to each and every aspirant of the AWS Certified Security - Specialty certification.I am an experienced cyber security and cloud professional while currently holding two AWS certifications including AWS Certified Security - Specialty. This book has the best quality content because the author and publisher of this book are best in their class and business. I have already taken online training for this certification by this author Stuart Scott and it was because of his flawless training that i was able to gain enough knowledge and confidence in attempting the certification clearing it in the first attempt. Now all that knowledge has been put down in a book which is equivalent to a gold mine of knowledge for AWS cloud security knowledge. The publisher of this book is a well known brand with a proven track record and always maintains the premium quality of publications.

This is an excellent book for those Information Security Enthusiasts and Professionals who would like to extend and enhance their skills on Cloud Security.As an Packt Subscriber, I am sharing my thoughts as followingVery lucid, detailed and practical knowledge on various components of this study guide on AWS Certified Security SpecialityAs an AWS Enthusiasts and Professionals you will be excited as you go through each domains covered by Stuart in this amazing guide.Domain 1 : Incident Response , covers Notification, Evaluation, Alerts 📢 including Access Keys 🔑 Exposure, CSIRT, Automation for Alerts and TriggersDomain 2 : The name says it all - Logging and Monitoring which extensively covers and tests capabilities, features such as* Design and Implementation of Security Monitoring Components* Troubleshooting techniques* Design and Evaluation of Logging SolutionsDomain 3 : Infrastructure Security covers well beyond details including best practices, architecture, individual host to VPC, The Edge is covered in details too, Design of Host based Solutions..Domain 4 : Identity and Access Management IAM is the core of Security around AWS. This domain focuses solely on everything access control-related regarding the IAM service and how to control access to your AWS resources. IAM must be understood inside out and it is essential that you have the knowledge and confidence to spot errors in IAM JSON policiesDomain 5 : Data ProtectionIt discusses approach to KMS , CloudHSM, Implementation, Troubleshooting and best practices too.Overall this is really one of the best books 📚 guide for Cloud Security Practitioners and Enthusiasts. I enjoyed every components within the book 📖 which was used practically in few of my ongoing Projects across different Industries. Grab on to this if Information Security and Cloud Cybersecurity using AWS is one of your favorite and you will be thankful to go through this in practices.

First of all, I'm never going to take the AWS Security Exam - that's not why I bought this book. As a developer building apps/IaC on AWS, I was hoping this book would offer a top-to-bottom overview on security on AWS. I'm happy to say it does just that.The book basically covers every aspect of security across most of the relevant AWS services and components - covering everything from keys and secrets, to IAM user/group/roles permissions, to networking, data management, auditing/logging/incident response, and more. It's covers a ton of ground.The author offer a number of step-by-step tutorials along the way on many of the most broadly important topics. Many more areas get more limited coverage - but links to further docs on AWS (and sometimes other articles/links) are usually included for further reading (should you see fit).My only real complaint about the book is that it's pretty light on CLI examples – most of the material focuses on getting things done in AWS Console (i.e. the browser). That said, what's nice is that the book includes tons of screenshots at every chapter, so you can easily make it thru the book without opening the browser at all and it will all still make sense (that's what I did).At 483 pages of content (not counting the sample exam in the last chapter) it seems like a heavy read, but thanks to all the screenshots and other graphics/code/etc., it's actually a quick and easy read – I read it all in 3 days.Final word: I don't know how well this will prepare you for the AWS Certification, but this is a great book for anyone in product/dev/ops who wants a complete overview of all things security on AWS (with plenty of good advice and best practices along the way). I highly recommend it.

I passed today the exam and I must say that the book really completed the video courses, whitepapers, reinvent and reinforce sessions. And of course the hands on real life experience.Since I've seen the book planned to be published I was really execited to get my hands on it and knowing Stuart's expertise from cloudacademy courses, I knew it will be a rich and well written book. And indeed it is.I've been playing around with AWS since 2015, and it's a challenge to keep up to date with what AWS releases almost every month, however despite some changed in the screenshots that you may find and some formatting issues on kindle, the details captured in the book are really a foundation for the exam, not forgetting about the mock exams.In my opinion maybe some personal recommendations and challenges for the reader will enrich this security journey on AWS.

Well an excellent book, very well designed and explanation of all AWS Security Topic. In my own experience work really well together with the videos, Stuart has on Cloud Academy, as to reinforce all the material. I do recommend anyone interested in AWS Security Specialty, to get this excellent book. Thanks

The book is very light. There is misspellings, missing and wrong answers on the practice exams. Get the Sybex book instead.

It covers everything on the exam objectives, but I personally feel this book alone its not enough for a good and more comprehensive understanding of details and concepts.