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AWS: Security Best Practices on AWS

AWS: Security Best Practices on AWS

By : Albert Anthony
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AWS: Security Best Practices on AWS

AWS: Security Best Practices on AWS

2.6 (5)
By: Albert Anthony

Overview of this book

With organizations moving their workloads, applications, and infrastructure to the cloud at an unprecedented pace, security of all these resources has been a paradigm shift for all those who are responsible for security; experts, novices, and apprentices alike. This book focuses on using native AWS security features and managed AWS services to help you achieve continuous security. Starting with an introduction to Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to secure your AWS VPC, you will quickly explore various components that make up VPC such as subnets, security groups, various gateways, and many more. You will also learn to protect data in the AWS platform for various AWS services by encrypting and decrypting data in AWS. You will also learn to secure web and mobile applications in AWS cloud. This book is ideal for all IT professionals, system administrators, security analysts, solution architects, and chief information security officers who are responsible for securing workloads in AWS for their organizations. This book is embedded with useful assessments that will help you revise the concepts you have learned in this book. This book is repurposed for this specific learning experience from material from Packt's Mastering AWS Security, written by Albert Anthony.
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EC2 Security Best Practices


There are general best practices for securing EC2 instances that are applicable irrespective of operating system or whether instances are running on virtual machines or on on-premise data centers. Let's look at these general best practices:

  • Least access: Unless required, ensure that your EC2 instance has restricted access to the instance, as well as restricted access to the network. Provide access only to trusted entities, including software and operating system components that are required to be installed on these instances.

  • Least privilege: Always follow the principle of least privilege required by your instances, as well as users, to perform their functions. Use role-based access for your instances and create roles with limited permissions. Control and monitor user access for your instances.

  • Configuration management: Use AWS configuration management services to have a baseline for your instance configuration and treat each EC2 instance as a configuration item...

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