Architecting secure workloads on the cloud with AWS
When it comes to protecting data, systems, and assets running on AWS, there are AWS whitepapers that you can take advantage of and use to build your workload security. There are basic tenets that can be employed, summarized as follows:
- Have a strong identity foundation: The Principle of Least Privilege (POLP) is a fundamental point that is more important than ever before when it comes to securing your resources. POLP enables users, systems, and processes to have access to the resources that are absolutely necessary to execute specific actions. This helps enforce the separation of duties for each transaction within the resources and eliminate most modern attacks. By limiting privileges, you can minimize the overall attack surface of your organization and reduce the pathways a bad actor can exploit the resources that they have access to. By limiting the superuser and administrator privileges, you can prevent, detect, and fend...