10 Costly Mistakes in Configuring AWS 
and Azure Cloud Environment

10 Costly Mistakes in Configuring AWS and Azure Cloud Environment

Misconfiguration of cloud environment ranked as the top security concern of many organizations as per a survey conducted among 500+ professionals from small businesses to large organizations.

Public cloud has become an important part of most organizations. For Startups and Small Businesses ,?public clouds like AWS, Azure have become super critical?and core to their business.

Any mistakes or misconfiguration in your AWS, Azure cloud environment can result in all sorts of risks and vulnerabilities,?from internal and external actors.These misconfigurations introduce risks for all businesses. But for Startups these can massively impact the business and existence itself.

Top 10 items to check for mistakes in configuration in AWS , Azure cloud environment

  • Firewall/Security Groups
  • Server accesses.SSH Key or Password based login
  • Apps or scripts running in root mode
  • Encryption of data on disks and other storage
  • Common user id for multiple users
  • Direct login to prod servers. No Bastion host
  • Server Reboot schedule
  • Antimalware , IDS(Intrusion detection system) , IPS(Intrusion prevention system) config
  • Type of access enabled for users. Role based or wide access
  • Redundancy Setup for your prod environment

If you are a Startup and need?suggestions to analyse and address any misconfiguration in the above items,?download the whitepaper here. In this whitepaper I explain in more detail misconfiguration in each of the above items and how to correct them. I also tell you the complexity, efforts and timelines to correct the misconfiguration.

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