2 years ago

Category: Security, Infrastructure

In this post,Don Magee — veteran cloud architect, security engineer extraordinaire, and Cloud Security Lead at Stedi — shares some essential shift-left security strategies and lessons learned around building a better security posture. You can do everything in your power to reduce your blast radius, ensure compliance, and secure your environment, but one of the best moves for improving security is to help developers make the right choices. And the best way to get a developer to make the right choice is to make the right choice the easy choice — make it easier to do things the right way than the wrong way. In this way, you can empower your developers and shift security to the left in your AWS environment.

CloudFormation Guard is easy to use and allows you to write rules (that are somewhat similar to AWS Config).