Top 10 Amazon Web Services Security Mistakes and Solutions

With more than 30 percent of the global cloud market, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a behemoth in the cloud sector. While AWS manages security of the cloud, security in the cloud is the responsibility of the customer. Security teams need to understand their part in the shared responsibility model, where customers retain control of what security they choose to implement to protect their own content, platform, applications, systems, and networks, no differently than they would for applications in an on- site data center.

With organizations in various stages of public cloud adoption and with different cloud maturity capabilities, an organization’s maturity level combined with Amazon’s speed of innovation requires focus on configurations that may be exploited in a specific context.

Learn about the top 10 AWS security mistakes people make and how you can avoid them.