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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) […]

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, […]

Using AWS Firewall Manager and WAF to protect your web applications with master rules and application-specific rules

Jeff Barr’s blog post introducing AWS Firewall Manager describes how you can centrally manage a set of web application firewall rules to protect all the applications in an AWS Organization. This blog post will take you through the specific steps to implement firewall rules using both AWS Web Application Firewall (AWS WAF) and AWS Firewall […]