Security savings tips for your business

A running series on where AWS security features pay for themselves — automated assessments, backup encryption, budget monitoring, and the total cost of getting the architecture right.

Each entry is one control, the point of it, and a worked figure.

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These were originally daily posts on LinkedIn. The days are numbered from that series, so they read out of order here — collected together they make more sense as one piece.

Manual assessment is not just expensive, it is periodic — you get a snapshot every quarter. Automated scanning is continuous, so you are also buying earlier detection with the money you save.

The real value is not the encryption on its own — it is having a restore path that the attacker cannot reach or corrupt. That is what turns a ransom demand into an inconvenience.

Deploy AWS WAF on the public-facing endpoints in your VPC to block common web attacks like SQL injection and cross-site scripting.

Cheap, fast to put in place, and it stops the highest-volume category of opportunistic attack before it reaches your application.

If you want any of these worked through against your own environment rather than as a general figure, get in touch.

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