Beginner’s guide: AWS security monitoring

Organizations around the world are embracing the benefits of shifting their workloads, apps, and services to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other popular cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) providers. Gartner predicts that of the global enterprises already using cloud today, over half will have an all-in approach to the cloud by 20211.

At the same time, cloud security concerns continue to rise. According to a 2018 Cloud Security Report from Cybersecurity Insiders,2 91% of respondents are concerned about cloud security, an increase of 11% over last year’s report. While security concerns haven’t slowed down the migration of workloads to the cloud, by examining these in detail, we can learn how to avoid making costly mistakes that leave our data exposed.

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