Written by Ryan Blanchard and James Alaniz
When an organization is moving their IT infrastructure to the cloud or expanding with net-new investment, one of the hardest tasks for the security team is to identify and establish the proper security policies and controls to keep their cloud environments secure and the applications and sensitive data they host safe.
This can be a challenge, particularly when teams lack the relevant experience and expertise to define such controls themselves, often looking to peers and the cloud service providers themselves for guidance. The good news for folks in this position is that the cloud providers have answered the call by providing curated sets of security controls, including recommended resource configurations and access policies to provide some clarity. In the case of AWS, this takes the form of the AWS Foundational Security Best Practices.
What are AWS Foundational Security Best Practices?
The AWS Foundational Security Best Practices standard is a set of controls intended as a framework for security teams to establish effective cloud security standards for their organization. This standard provides actionable and prescriptive guidance on how to improve and maintain your organization’s security posture, with controls spanning a wide variety of AWS services.
If you’re an organization that is just getting going in the cloud and has landed on AWS as your platform of choice, this standard is undoubtedly a really good place to start.
Enforcing AWS Foundational Security Best Practices can be a challenge
So, you’ve now been armed with a foundational guide to establishing a strong security posture for your cloud. Simple, right? Well, it’s important to be aware be ..
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