October 2018
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
17h 33m
English
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Chapter 6. Securing your system: IAM, security groups, and VPC
This chapter covers
- Who is responsible for security?
- Keeping your software up to date
- Controlling access to your AWS account with users and roles
- Keeping your traffic under control with security groups
- Using CloudFormation to create a private network
If security is a wall, you’ll need a lot of bricks to build that wall as shown in figure 6.1. This chapter focuses on the four most important bricks to secure your systems on AWS:
1. Installing software updates—New security vulnerabilities are found in software every day. Software vendors release updates to fix those vulnerabilities and it’s your job to install those updates as quickly as possible after they’re released. Otherwise ...