AWS Network Firewall

AWS Network Firewall is a managed, stateful network firewall and intrusion-prevention service for VPCs. SCS-C02 covers it alongside security groups, NACLs, WAF, and Shield in the infrastructure-security domain.

All SCS-C02 Terms

Amazon GuardDuty

Amazon GuardDuty is a threat-detection service that continuously analyzes CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs, and DNS logs for malicious activity.

AWS Security Hub

AWS Security Hub is a service that aggregates and prioritizes security findings across accounts and checks them against standards such as CIS and AWS FSBP.

Amazon Detective

Amazon Detective is a service that helps analyze and investigate the root cause of security findings by building linked data from logs.

AWS CloudTrail

AWS CloudTrail is a service that records API activity across an AWS account for auditing and investigation.

VPC Flow Logs

VPC Flow Logs capture information about IP traffic to and from network interfaces in a VPC.

AWS Network Firewall

AWS Network Firewall is a managed, stateful network firewall and intrusion-prevention service for VPCs.

AWS WAF

AWS WAF is a web application firewall that filters HTTP(S) traffic to protect applications from common exploits such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting.

AWS KMS

AWS Key Management Service (KMS) is a managed service that creates and controls the cryptographic keys used to encrypt data, with key policies, grants, and rotation.

AWS Secrets Manager

AWS Secrets Manager is a service that stores, retrieves, and automatically rotates secrets such as database credentials and API keys.

AWS Certificate Manager

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) is a service that provisions, manages, and renews TLS certificates for AWS services.

IAM Policy

An IAM policy is a JSON document that defines permissions and is evaluated (with explicit denies overriding allows) to authorize requests.

Service Control Policy

A service control policy (SCP) is an AWS Organizations guardrail that limits the maximum permissions for member accounts.

AWS Config

AWS Config is a service that records resource configurations and evaluates them against rules and conformance packs for compliance.