Tag: aws

Prevent password reuse policy can be easily enabled in AWS. This helps in preventing users from reusing their old passwords after expiry or when password change operations are performed. This article provides a step by step walkthrough of how you can enable Prevent Password Reuse policy on AWS, both in video and text for your preferred medium of learning.

EBS volumes are not encrypted by default. Encrypting these adds a layer of security to the data stored on it.

This article gives introduction on Service Control Policies (SCPs) in AWS .

This article is a quick introduction to network load balancing and how to create a Network Load Balancer on AWS.

Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets and virtual appliances in one or more Availability Zones (AZs). In this article we will take a look at how to create an Application Load Balancer on AWS.

HTTP Desync attacks are a category of attacks on a system of proxies and load balancers when multiple devices in the chain parse parts of the HTTP request differently, resulting in tampering of legitimate HTTP sessions and bypassing application level security. AWS offers protection against these attacks in their Load Balancer service that prevents exploitation.