Security Flashcards

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What is the Shared Responsibility Model?

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AWS is responsible for “Security of Cloud” & you’re responsible for “Security in Cloud”

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What is the Customer’s Responsibility in the Cloud?

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  • Customer Data
  • Platform, Applications, Identify & Access Management
  • OS’s, Network, & Firewall Configurations
  • Client-side Data Encryption
  • Server-Side Encryption
  • Networking Traffic Protection
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What is AWS’s Responsibility of the Cloud?

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  • Software
  • Compute
  • Storage
  • Database
  • Networking
  • Hardware/AWS Global Infrastructure
  • Regions
  • Availability Zones
  • Edge Locations
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What is AWS Identity & Access Management (IAM)?

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Manage access to AWS services & resources securely & lets you configure access based on your company’s specific operation & security needs.

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What is an IAM User?

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Identity you create in AWS that represents person or application that interacts with AWS services & resources.
- Consists of name & credentials.
- Default: has no permissions associated w/ it.

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What is an IAM Policy?

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JSON Document that allows or denies permissions to AWS services & resources.

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What is an IAM Group?

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Collection of IAM Users where all users in group have only the permissions of the policy of the IAM Group.

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What is an IAM Role?

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Identity user can assume to gain temporary access to permissions.
- Must be granted permissions to switch to role.
- Abandons all previous permissions and has only new permissions.
- Ideal for user needs TEMPORARY access to services/resources, NOT LONG-TERM.

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What is Multi-factor Authentication (MFA)?

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Requires user to give more than one form of verification to access account which provides extra layer of security to AWS account.

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What is an AWS Organization?

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Consolidates & manages multiple AWS accounts w/in a central location.

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What is an AWS Organizational Unit?

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Grouping of AWS accounts to make it easier to manage accounts w/ similar business or security requirements.
- When you apply a policy to an OU, all the accounts in the OU automatically inherit the permissions specified in the policy.

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What is AWS Artificat?

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Provides on-demand access to AWS security & compliance reports & select online agreements.
Consists of two main sections:
- AWS Artifact Agreements
- AWS Artifact Reports

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What are AWS Artifact Agreements?

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You can review, accept, & manage agreements for an individual account & for all your accounts in AWS Organizations.

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What are AWS Artifact Reports?

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Provide compliance reports from 3-party auditors who have tested & verified that AWS is compliant w/ variety of global, regional, & industry specific security standards & regulations & always stay up to date.

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What is the Customer Compliance Center?

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Group of resources that helps you more a/b AWS compliance.
- Can help you w/ compliance questions & auditing security checklist.
- Can see how other companies solved compliance problems.

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What is AWS Shield?

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Protects applications from DDoS attacks.
Has two levels:
- Standard
- Advanced

17
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What is AWS Shield Standard?

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Automatically protects all AWS customers for free from most common frequent DDoS attacks.

18
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What is AWS Shield Advanced?

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Protects from sophisticated DDoS attacks & integrates w/ other services s/a:
- Amazon CloudFront
- Amazon Rout 53
- Elastic Load Balancing

Also you can integrate with AWS WAF to write complex rules to mitigate DDoS attacks.

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What is AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)?

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Managed service that makes it easy to create & control encryption keys that are used to encrypt your data.

20
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What is AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall)?

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Web Application Firewall that monitors network requests that come into your web applications.

21
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What is Amazon Inspector?

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Helps improve security & compliance of applications by running automated security assessments that check for weaknesses & changes from security best practices & offers recommendations on how to fix them.

22
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What is Amazon GuardDuty?

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Proved intelligent threat detection for AWS infrastructure & resources by identifying threats by always monitoring network activity & account behavior w/in AWS environment.