Configuring Infrastructure Security
As you construct your cloud environment, understanding how to build the virtual walls that will protect the data and the resources you hold inside is crucial to becoming a well-rounded security professional. Knowing how to grant access to trusted entities and deny others all starts with the concept of the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
When considering your cloud architecture and infrastructure from an IaaS perspective, you, as the customer, are responsible for implementing, maintaining, and managing the security of that infrastructure. This includes your VPC and all the components that make up that VPC.
Knowing how to create a VPC in AWS, connecting multiple VPCs together securely, and then connecting the various services in AWS in the most secure manner are vital parts of being a security professional, regardless of whether the primary responsibility for these actions falls on you. In this chapter, you will look at several of the components...
