How to Guide: AWS Security Best Practices

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Many security breaches start with a misconfigured permission. AWS IAM helps you apply the principle of least privilege, create fine-grained access policies, and securely delegate permissions using roles. Get IAM right, and you set your entire AWS environment up for resilience. Learn about AWS IAM in this simple to follow training. https://lnkd.in/efJ7DnKb

Using Terraform to create a robust two-tier infrastructure on AWS involves defining separate modules for the application and database layers. You can set up an Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) to distribute traffic to multiple EC2 instances in the application tier, while using Amazon RDS for a scalable and managed database layer. This modular approach enhances maintainability and scalability, allowing for easy updates and resource management. Stay connected to Aashay Gupta, CISM, GCP for content related to Cybersecurity.   #LinkedIn #Cybersecurity #Cloudsecurity #AWS #Cyberthreats

⏳ AWS STS: Temporary Credentials, Stronger Security AWS Security Token Service (STS) issues temporary security credentials to users or apps needing access to AWS resources. These credentials last only a few minutes to hours, reducing exposure if they’re ever compromised — and minimizing attackers’ window of opportunity. 🔐 Short-lived keys = long-term security. #AWS #CloudSecurity #STS #IAM #DevOps #CloudComputing

🚀 Securing AWS the Right Way — My Hands-On IAM Project I recently completed a practical AWS project focused on Identity and Access Management (IAM) — and it completely reshaped how I view cloud security. 🔒 In this setup, I acted as the cloud admin and configured users, groups, and policies in the AWS Console to manage access for two EC2 instances — one for development and one for production. 🔹 Created two users (dev and prod) and their respective groups. 🔹 Attached IAM policies defining who could access what. 🔹 Developers could access only the development EC2 instance. 🔹 Production users had admin privileges, allowing them to perform all EC2 actions across both instances. At first, IAM policies and their JSON permissions looked intimidating😅but once I understood how resources, actions, and effects connect, everything clicked! This project taught me that AWS security isn’t about locking things down - it’s about assigning access thoughtfully to maintain both control and flexibility. 📝 Read the full breakdown on Medium: https://lnkd.in/ekMnabzx #AWS #CloudComputing #IAM #AWSSecurity #DevOps #WomenInTech #CloudJourney #Cybersecurity #LearningInPublic #AWSCommunity

Three serious vulnerabilities enabling attackers to break out of Docker, Kubernetes containers RunC is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the Open Container Initiative (OCI) specification. Administrators of any software running it are recommended to update to the latest releases due to severe vulnerabilities that enable container breakouts. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has issued a bulletin to customers, noting no cross-customer risks, but advising them to update environments to the updated runC versions. Security researchers urge updating runC to version 1.2.8, 1.3.3, or 1.4.0-rc.3 or later, and applying patches released by vendors on cloud platforms.... Credits to CyberNews by Ernestas Naprys. [Source in the comments section]

Many Amazon EFS environments have strong access controls, yet limited visibility into the files stored inside them. That gap is where malware often sits quietly for long periods of time. Here is a blog that we partnered with AWS Partners that explains how teams are adding regular file level inspection inside their own accounts. It is a practical approach that strengthens shared storage without changing how EFS works. Read the AWS post: https://hubs.li/Q03SJfwp0 #AWS #CloudSecurity #AmazonEFS

AWS Backup now supports copying database snapshots across AWS Regions and accounts using a single copy action. This feature supports Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, Amazon Neptune, and Amazon DocumentDB snapshots. It eliminates the need for sequential copying steps. You can use cross-Region and cross-account snapshot copies to protect against incidents like ransomware attacks and Region outages that might affect your production accounts or primary Regions. Previously, you needed to perform this as a two-step process—first copying to a different Region, and then to a different account

👩🏽💻🍥How to design least privilege access in AWS, Azure or GCP. ☁️👮🏽Least privilege access is more than just turning off permissions. It is about creating a layered and robust security framework. 👩🏽🏫Least privilege has three pillars: 1. The foundation 🧱 2. The mechanism⚙️ 3. The enforcement🚨 #cybersecurity #CloudSecurity #IAM #AWS #Azure #GCP #CloudArchitecture #AWSSecurity #LeastPrivilege Cyvia

Think threat actors need your AWS account ID and password to cause trouble? Time to think again. Varonis Threat Labs has recently discovered a new, simple, and effective method for retrieving the AWS Account ID of any S3 bucket. Varonis reported this vulnerability to the AWS Vulnerability Disclosure Program (VDP), and Amazon has since released a patch to address the issue that does not require action from AWS customers. Click here to read more about this vulnerability: https://lnkd.in/enjCfUtM