Security Flashcards
What is Salting?
Appending or prepending a random value to a piece of data before hashing it.
What are rainbow table attacks?
They use pregenerated hashes of commonly used passwords.
What kind of KMS keys do AWS integrated services use?
symmetric keys. You don’t have access to the key.
Can you automatically rotate secrets in Secrets Manager?
Yes
Can secrets in Secrets Manager be replicated?
Yes from region to region. Good for BC / DR
Can AWS WAF be added to an NLB?
No. Only and ALB
What is the most secure and scalable way to expose a service to 1000s of VPCs
AWS Private Link
What are the requirements for Private Link?
A network load balancer (service VPC) and ENI (Customer VPC)
How do you bypass TTL in CloudFront?
CloudFront Invalidation
CloudWatchMetrics belong to?
NameSpaces
What is a CloudWatch Dimension?
An attribute of a metric
Can you send cloudwatch logs to Kinesis Data streams / firehose?
Yes. You can also filter them using a metric filter. This will allow you to send the metrics to third parties.
Where do you query CloudWatch Logs natively?
CloudWatch Logs Insight
What is a CloudWatch Logs Subscription?
It allows you to get a real-time stream of log events for processing and analysis.
How could you aggregate cloudwatch logs from multiple accounts?
Have them all send to a single kinesis data stream. You can filter them using a subscription filter. Kinesis data firehose would store the result in S3
What does CloudTrail insights do?
It detects unusual activity in your account. Service limits, IAM action bursts, etc..