Threats to modern applications
One of the primary goals in meeting the SLA is the ability to maintain the desired availability of the application. Network security is a crucial factor in maintaining availability as there are many forms of attack that can bring down even the most secure publicly available application. These attacks can be directed either at our application or are designed to disrupt the services our application is depending on.
As we have already mentioned, the ability to protect our application at each and every entry point is crucial. Additionally, we should be implementing security wherever possible. We have already discussed the layers of protection that come with the VPC and within the operating system of the EC2 instance, ...
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