The Importance of Parameter Management in Cybersecurity and Application Security

ACM.430 Architecting a secure parameter management system

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

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In the last post I altered my code to use parameters from AWS SSM Parameter store if a parameter matching the script name exists:

Using an SSM Parameter to Pass Parameters To A Container

I manually added the parameter to AWS SSM Parameter in that post. In this post, I want to think through the architecture and requirements for automating parameter deployment.

A value-based approach to security

This post hearkens all the way back to a post I wrote at the very beginning of this series on value-based security.