Security Flashcards
AWS Firewall that let’s you monitor HTTP and HTTPS
AWS WAF
What services can be protected by an AWS WAF
CloudFront
Application Load Balancer (ALB)
API Gateway
What can be tracked with AWS WAF
IP address request comes form
Countryh request comes form
Values in request header
Strings in request (based on regex)
Lenght of request
SQL injuection
Cross-site scripting
3 types of allowed behavior for AWS WAF
Allow all requests except ones you specifiy
Block all requests except the once you specify
Count number of requests based on specs
What AWS service should you use if you want to prevent certain IP addresses or countries from hitting your CloudFront distribution
WAF
What AWS service should you use to help prevent SQL injection or cross-site scripting on your Layer 7 application
WAF
Where does CloudTrail store it’s API logs
S3
How to monitor all API calls in your account
Cloudtrail
Free DDoS protection for Layer 3 and Layer 4 SYN/UDP flood and reflection attacks
AWS Shield
More enhanced protection for ELB, Cloudfront and Route53 with near real-time notifications of DDoS attacks
AWS Shield Advanced
How much is Shield Advanced
$3000 / month
Centralized Threat detection service that uses Machine Learning to continuously look for malicious activity in your account/s and lookups on known malicious IPs.
AWS GuardDuty
How can you respond to a threat found by GuardDuty?
Create a Cloudwatch Event to Trigger a Lambda function that addresses a threat
Centralize and set and manage firewall rules across AWS Organizations
Firewall Manager
Automated Security Detection Service that assessess applications for vulnerabilities on EC2 and VPC
AWS Inspector