Simplifying the Security of Your Workloads on AWS

Presented by

Dan Pitman, Principal Security Architect

About this talk

With the rapid rise of web application attacks, which is the number one source of data breaches, securing cloud-based web applications is a challenge. In order to fully protect your web applications in the cloud, it is important to know the risks and understand your role in the shared responsibility for security. Securing your AWS workloads can mean many different things, ranging from locking down your environment via AWS best practices, to completely outsourcing the security management and responsibility to another company. While every company’s security journey is different, everyone can agree that the need to monitor and improve security posture is becoming increasingly important. Start here with Dan Pitman, Principal Security Architect, Alert Logic as he lists the top considerations to better protect your AWS hosted workloads and applications. Learn the fundamentals to achieve a stronger AWS cloud security strategy. Register now and gain key security takeaways, including: • Guidelines to security risk: understanding your AWS environment and the exposures your web apps face • Learnings from top configuration vulnerabilities involving root, S3, IAM, security groups, and more • How security incidents differ on hybrid networks versus public-cloud installations • Threat detection capabilities and creating an effective incident response plan
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