How to Secure
Your AWS Environment
Alexey Gerasimov
CTP’s prescriptive approach to ensure a safe and
secure cloud adoption journey to AWS.
The Landscape
Cloud seems to be all the rage these days and everyone wants to be there. At
the same time, there are still a significant number of enterprises that are either
very concerned about security in the cloud or not fully aware of all of the capa-
bilities that cloud vendors provide.
Cloud security concerns are very real, and they should be. After all, practically
every day we read another article about some cyber-attack, data leak, DDOS
attack, or credit-card data and identity theft. To add to that, cloud is still rela-
tively new compared to decades of us running and securing our own data centers .
The Myth
We have all heard that Cloud is not secure. Or a variation of that theme. “Cloud
is less secure than my own data center,” echoes down many hallways. This
myth has been debunked a number of times already but it’s worth repeating
again that this is just plain not true! Your cloud environment is as secure as you
make it. If you leave your front door open, it’s not the door manufacturer’s or
locksmith’s fault. It’s yours!
Sure, if you are a company that needs to ensure that nobody can access your
super secret data stored on a super secret computer, not connected to any-
thing and located behind triple walls with biometric security and guards at
each entrance, then yes, cloud might not address your requirements. For the
most of us, that is not the case.
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