Hashtag Realtalk with Aaron Bregg

Episode 26 - Let's Talk Amazon Web Services Security

November 18, 2020 Aaron Bregg Season 1 Episode 26
Hashtag Realtalk with Aaron Bregg
Episode 26 - Let's Talk Amazon Web Services Security
Show Notes

In this special Veteran's Day episode I talk with LinkedIn Top Voices of 2020 honoree, AJ Yawn, about Amazon Web Services security.  AJ is a US Army veteran and also the Co-Founder and CEO of a brand new company called ByteChek.

AJ walks us through his five quick tips for AWS security for small businesses.

  1. Protect Your Root Account
  2. Identity Access Management (IAM) Report
  3. Download Trusted Advisor Report
  4. Enable AWS Cloud Trail Across All Regions
  5. Automate Something Using Cloud Trail

We also had a chance to talk about the ever elusive thing called the Shared Responsibility Model.

Finally stick around until the end were we took a few minutes and touched based on the state of Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the end of 2020.

As an added bonus here is a link to AJ's article that we talked about in the podcast.  

How To Effectively Setup AWS CloudTrail in 5 Steps