Automated Creation of Security Groups on AWS
ACM.67 Creating Zero Trust rulesets or security groups on AWS
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⚙️ Part of my series on Automating Cybersecurity Metrics. The Code.
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In the last post we automated the creation of Network Access Control Lists (NACLs) on AWS.
In this post we will automate the creation of security groups. Note that this gets further revisions throughout this blog series as we uncover more requirements.
Back when I worked on the network team at Capital One, developers had to submit requests outlining the network requirements for their applications which got reviewed by the security team and then implemented. I happened to be one of the people implementing those requests in the middle of the night in production.
What often happened was the development team would come in the next day and their application…
