So far in this series, we have shared tips for securing access to your AWS resources, hardening your system and protecting with a firewall and IPS combination. At this point, your applications running on Amazon Web Services are resilient to attack, but it is critical that ongoing monitoring be a part of your overall security strategy. Monitoring…
Read MoreIn this series, Mark and I have covered tips for securing your Amazon Web Services (AWS) account, building hardened Amazon Machine Images and locking down the operating system. Now we turn our attention to one of the most simple, yet powerful ways to secure your instances: the firewall. Implementing a firewall policy is just basic survival when…
Read MoreIn our previous top tips for AWS security we looked at hardening access to your AWS resources through proper use of IAM, policies and authentication. In this tip we turn our focus to hardening your Amazon Machine Images (AMI). No matter whether you pronounce it A.M.I or Ahhh-ME (as the AWS folks do) your machine…
Read MoreIn a previous post1 I raised three pitfalls that your BYOD program cannot afford to ignore when allowing employees to use their personal devices for work: Remote deletion of personal data on an employee-owned device Tracking an individual’s location Monitoring an employee’s Internet access Based on my involvement with various BYOD projects and my ongoing…
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