AWS Security Blog
Tag: VPC security groups
Automate AWS Firewall Manager onboarding using AWS Centralized WAF and VPC Security Group Management solution
Many customers—especially large enterprises—run workloads across multiple AWS accounts and in multiple AWS regions. AWS Firewall Manager service, launched in April 2018, enables customers to centrally configure and manage AWS WAF rules, audit Amazon VPC security group rules across accounts and applications in AWS Organizations, and protect resources against distributed DDoS attacks. In this blog […]
Use AWS Firewall Manager to deploy protection at scale in AWS Organizations
Security teams that are responsible for securing workloads in hundreds of Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts in different organizational units aim for a consistent approach across AWS Organizations. Key goals include enforcing preventative measures to mitigate known security issues, having a central approach for notifying the SecOps team about potential distributed denial of service (DDoS) […]
AWS Firewall Manager helps automate security group management: 3 scenarios
April 25, 2023: We’ve updated this blog post to include more security learning resources. In this post, we walk you through scenarios that use AWS Firewall Manager to centrally manage security groups across your AWS Organizations implementation. Firewall Manager is a security management tool that helps you centralize, configure, and maintain AWS WAF rules, AWS […]
Use AWS Firewall Manager and VPC security groups to protect your applications hosted on EC2 instances
June 21, 2024: This blog was updated to reflect new service features and console changes, and to add additional resources. You can use AWS Firewall Manager to centrally configure and manage Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) security groups across all your AWS accounts. This post will take you through the step-by-step instructions to apply common security group rules, […]