Quest: Simplest Security Steps

Authors

• Farhan Farooq, Solutions Architect, WWPS

Introduction

These are the six things we encourage all customers to do to improve their security in the cloud.

Prerequisites

• An AWS account that you are able to use for testing.

Steps:

• Step 1 - Protect privileged credentials
• Step 2 - Use temporary credentials
• Step 3 - Replace hardcoded credentials
• Step 4 - Limit Network Access
• Step 5 - Apply patches
• Step 6 - Restrict public storage