Posts

AWS Service Control Policies (SCP) uses for the Security Specialty Exam

This is part of a series of posts to use as a study guide for the AWS Security Specialty exam

What is SCP?

SCPs are Service control policies. These are types of organization policies to manage permissions in your organization. SCPs provide central control over the maximum available permissions that can be provided for all accounts within the organization. SCPs...

AWS IAM Security for the Security Specialty Exam

I provided an overview of AWS IAM from a configuration level in my blog series on the AWS Solution Architect Associate exam https://captainhyperscaler.github.io/amazon-web-services/2022/03/20/aws-iam/.

I have been preparing for the AWS Security Specialty exam which takes a deeper dive into the creation and use of policies to manage permissions within AWS. In this post, I will discuss some of these...

Security Pro Community Update - May 2022

As mentioned in my 2022…The Year so Far post on 30 April 2022, I have been asked to be the Community Manager for Packt Publishing’s Security Pro Community.

Anyone that is involved or interested in security, cloud, on-premises, and hybrid is invited to join. The community is run on Discord. The link is below. Security...

What I have learned about Serverless and Lambda on AWS

This is the twelfth and final post of content for preparing yourself for becoming an AWS Solutions Architect Associate.

In this post, we are going to focus on serverless and Lambda features within AWS.

As I have done previously let’s look at the similarities and differences to the closest equivalent in Azure. As I go through...

What I have learned about Security on AWS

This is the eleventh post of content for preparing yourself for becoming an AWS Solutions Architect Associate.

In this post, we are going to focus on security features within AWS.

As I have done previously let’s look at the similarities and differences to the closest equivalent in Azure. As I go through this section, I will...