{"id":6024,"date":"2018-02-15T13:45:03","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T19:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/?p=6024"},"modified":"2018-02-15T20:23:07","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T02:23:07","slug":"easy-iam-security-best-practices-for-a-more-secure-aws-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/easy-iam-security-best-practices-for-a-more-secure-aws-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy IAM security best practices for a more secure AWS Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Easy IAM security best practices for a more secure AWS Cloud<\/h2>\n<p>The focus of this article is on how you can do a couple of simple tasks that will bolster IAM security, which you can apply to your AWS cloud. Some of these actions are:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Removing the root access keys<br \/>\n&#8211; Using users and groups<br \/>\n&#8211; Defining a password policy<br \/>\n&#8211; Managing multifactor authentication<br \/>\n&#8211; Checking IAM user utilization<\/p>\n<p>Read more at &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/techgenix.com\/iam-security-best-practices\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Easy IAM security best practices for a more secure AWS Cloud<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Identity_and_Access_Management_Post.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6019\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/establishing-trust-with-identity-governance-intelligence\/identity_and_access_management_post\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Identity_and_Access_Management_Post.png?fit=141%2C124&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"141,124\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Identity_and_Access_Management_Post\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;AllIDM Identity and Access Management , Cloud Management&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Identity_and_Access_Management_Post.png?fit=141%2C124&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Identity_and_Access_Management_Post.png?resize=141%2C124\" alt=\"\" width=\"141\" height=\"124\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6019\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Easy IAM security best practices for a more secure AWS Cloud The focus of this article is on how you can do a couple of simple tasks that will bolster IAM security, which you can apply to your AWS cloud. Some of these actions are: &#8211; Removing the root access keys &#8211; Using users and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[210,88,6],"tags":[1860,19],"class_list":["post-6024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud-2","category-identity-space","category-news","tag-aws-cloud","tag-identity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p25vfy-1za","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6024"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6029,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6024\/revisions\/6029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}