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Security monitoring

Security monitoring

- [Instructor] In the "Security Monitoring" domain, you will be on the hook to answer four questions correctly. Imagine if your vehicle didn't have any mechanism to report on engine health, fuel levels, or whether a door was ajar, or tire pressure, this could leave you open to potentially dangerous vulnerabilities. A lack of meaningful and coherent monitoring in the cloud could also open you to problematic and potentially dangerous vulnerabilities. There are numerous reasons why cloud security monitoring is complex, including the breadth of tools and services available in the administrative console, the fast changes that occur frequently, the distributed nature of cloud services, and also the cloud sprawl that comes along with that distribution of continuous creation of new services that may or may not align with business objectives. An Additional challenge is properly assigning responsibilities in the SSRM, or the Shared Security Responsibility Model, depending on which service is…

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