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Tag: Amazon Machine Images
How to Set Up Continuous Golden AMI Vulnerability Assessments with Amazon Inspector
As companies mature in their cloud journey, they implement layered security capabilities and practices in their cloud architectures. One such practice is to continually assess golden Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) for security vulnerabilities. AMIs provide the information required to launch an Amazon EC2 instance, which is a virtual server in the AWS Cloud. A golden […]
How to Patch, Inspect, and Protect Microsoft Windows Workloads on AWS—Part 1
Most malware tries to compromise your systems by using a known vulnerability that the maker of the operating system has already patched. To help prevent malware from affecting your systems, two security best practices are to apply all operating system patches to your systems and actively monitor your systems for missing patches. In case you […]