Limiting Access to an AWS EIP in GitHub

ACM.102 Ensuring only authorized IP addresses can access your private GitHub repositories

Teri Radichel
Cloud Security
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7 min readNov 5, 2022

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⚙️ Part of my series on Automating Cybersecurity Metrics. The Code.

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My last post explained how you can restrict SSH access on your local network to only authorized IP addresses.

Specifically, we allowed access to an EC2 instance we created in a network we deployed on AWS with CloudFormation. The networking on AWS restricts access to a specified IP address of one user connecting to an EC2 instance via SSH or RDP at the time of this writing. I might change that later. You can read everything leading up to this point here.

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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