This specially hardened image contains adopted guidance of Dept of Defense whcih include additional series of cybersecurity requirements for IT products deployed within DoD agencies including configuration guidance for network devices, software, databases and operating systems.
Brought to you by the World's largest Publisher across all the public cloud, these hardened images are to help you to bring up a cloud infrastructure meeting the highest of security guidelines at launch.
Please note that for opertaionl reasons and for running stacks, some of the compliance has been chosen at a mandatory High risk level while most recommendations to mitigate even the lowest risk has already been incorporated.

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