From the course: Cisco CCNP Security SCOR v1.1 (350-701) Cert Prep

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Security assessments

Security assessments

From the course: Cisco CCNP Security SCOR v1.1 (350-701) Cert Prep

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Security assessments

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- [Instructor] Just as with physical deployments, security assessments against our cloud resources are a critical way to ensure that we have a good security posture. Before we talk about some of those common practices, I do want to point out that if you're performing penetration testing in your cloud environment, you need to make sure that you understand what you are and are not permitted to do. Cloud service providers have guidelines about how this type of penetration testing can be performed and you want to make sure that you adhere to these guidelines when you're testing. Also note that many cloud service providers provide their own security tools for assessment purposes. AWS, for example, provides tools such as Inspector, GuardDuty, and others, which can be used by customers to perform security assessments. With that said, let's talk about implementing a cloud-based security assessment. We're going to cover some general checklist items here, which you can use as a guideline within…

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