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Advanced IAM Security

Advanced IAM concepts for DVA-C02. Evaluation logic, SCPs, permissions boundaries, Cross-Account Access, and Web Identity Federation.

Amazon Cognito

AWS Cognito for DVA-C02 — User Pools vs Identity Pools, JWT tokens, hosted UI, federation with social providers, Cognito Sync, and all common exam patterns. Java SDK examples included.

Authentication & Authorization

Deep dive into authentication and authorization patterns including sessions, JWT, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, RBAC, ABAC, MFA, passwordless, passkeys, and Spring Security implementation.

AWS CloudTrail

AWS CloudTrail for DVA-C02. Management events vs data events, event history, trails, CloudTrail Insights, integration with CloudWatch Logs, and the difference between CloudTrail and CloudWatch.

AWS KMS (Key Management Service)

AWS KMS for DVA-C02. CMKs vs AWS-managed keys, envelope encryption, key policies, grants, key rotation, multi-region keys, and KMS API limits with Java examples.

Cookies vs Sessions vs JWT

Deep-dive into web authentication mechanisms — Cookies, Sessions, and JWTs — for senior engineering interviews and production systems.

Database Security

Authentication, authorization, SQL injection, encryption at rest and in transit, auditing, and security best practices.

IAM – Identity & Access Management

Deep dive into AWS IAM for the DVA-C02 exam. Covers users, groups, roles, policies (identity vs resource-based), STS, cross-account access, best practices, and common exam scenarios.

Keys, Signing, JWKS & TLS

Deep dive into public/private key cryptography, how signing payloads works, JWKS (JSON Web Key Sets), Message Level Encryption (MLE), and TLS internals — written for Java/Spring engineers.

Network Security

TLS deep dive, common network attacks, DDoS mitigation, zero trust networking, certificate management, and security best practices.

Secrets Manager & SSM Parameter Store

AWS Secrets Manager vs SSM Parameter Store for DVA-C02. Automatic rotation, Lambda integration, cross-account access, SecureString, versioning, and the key differences tested on the exam.

Security Interview Questions — Master Reference

Comprehensive security interview question bank for Java/Spring engineers — covering authentication, JWT, JWKS, MLE, payload signing, TLS, web vulnerabilities, cryptography, network security, cloud security, and secure design.

Security Knowledge Base

A comprehensive security reference for software engineers covering authentication, authorization, cryptography, web vulnerabilities, privacy, compliance, secure SDLC, and incident response.

Security Patterns

Security design patterns for distributed systems including authentication, authorization, JWT, OAuth 2.0, rate limiting, zero trust, secrets management, and OWASP top threats.

SSM Parameter Store

AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store for DVA-C02. Tiers, types, SecureString, hierarchy naming, GetParametersByPath, integration with Lambda/ECS/CloudFormation, and comparison with Secrets Manager.

TCS 3 Years Interview Experience | Java Spring Boot

A comprehensive collection of real interview questions and answers from a TCS Java Developer interview. Ideal for candidates with ~3 years of experience, covering Core Java, API Security, Spring Boot, and Microservices.

The Agent Harness: Runtimes, Safety & Evaluations

A complete guide to agent harness engineering — sandboxing, Human-in-the-Loop patterns, security threat mitigation, cost control, evaluation frameworks, and production reliability for AI agents.

Web Vulnerabilities & Defenses

Comprehensive guide to OWASP Top 10 — SQL injection, XSS, CSRF, SSRF, XXE, IDOR, insecure deserialization, and their mitigations in Spring Boot applications.