Baking Security In From the Ground Up on AWS

Starting from scratch in a new AWS account and building out a secure architecture

Teri Radichel
Cloud Security
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7 min readFeb 22, 2023

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When I initially started writing this series on Security Metrics Automation, I was going to create a basic security architecture for secure automation of batch jobs. I actually want to use this framework in my own business for penetration tests and security assessments.

The problem was as I got down the line using an account where I had deployed AWS Control Tower and was using AWS SSO from AWS Identity Center I hit too many issues. I decided to start over at that point and build out a new AWS account and…

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Teri Radichel
Cloud Security

CEO 2nd Sight Lab | Penetration Testing & Assessments | AWS Hero | Masters of Infosec & Software Engineering | GSE 240 etc | IANS | SANS Difference Makers Award