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One of the biggest questions we get from Clients is “Is Amazon EC2 secure” . That is like saying is my Vanilla network secure. Like anything you can take some steps to make the environment as secure as you can, such as:
- First read the Amazon Security Whitepaper and the Amazon discussion of Security processes
- Ensure [...]

Tags: amazon ec2, authentication, encryption, ExecShield, Keys, OSSEC, PAX, Security, Security Groups, SELinux, System Hardening

In this post I will walk you through the  high level  of securing a normal tiered application running on EC2. First I will cover the basics of what EC2 provides and then briefly discuss how this can be used in a real life scenario.

Security Groups
For Network security EC2 provides a security groups, security groups are [...]

Tags: Amazon, EC2, Security