Practical Site Reliability Engineering

Design pattern for security

Security is one of the important points while moving into the cloud or within your organization to protect yourself from external attacks. Security at each layer is a must and more important to secure your infrastructure, thus protecting confidential information. Security has the following broader design patterns that are also covered in AWS WAF:

• Identity and access management
• Detective control
• Infrastructure protection
• Data protection
• Incident response

Some detailed examples of the preceding points are as follows:

• Protecting identities using roles, for example, AWS IAM roles, implementing fine-grained authorization
• Blocking traffic using ports/IP ranges, such as AWS Security Groups and separating internal and ...