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Which of the following are AWS recommended best practices in relation to IAM?
Don’t use your AWS account root user credentials to access AWS, and don’t give your credentials to anyone else. Instead, create individual users for anyone who needs access to your AWS account. Create an IAM user for yourself as well, give that user administrative permissions, and use that IAM user for all your work.
What are the recommended best practices for IAM?
IAM Best Practices Overview
- Enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) for privileged users.
- Use Policy Conditions for Extra Security.
- Remove Unnecessary Credentials.
- Use AWS-Defined Policies to Assign Permissions Whenever Possible.
- Use Groups to Assign Permissions to IAM Users.
Why is it important to restrict access to sensitive permissions?
Restricting access to sensitive permissions reduces the risk of inadvertently misusing those permissions, improves user adoption, and makes your app less vulnerable for attackers. Generally, if a permission is not required for your app to function, don’t request it.
What’s the best way to manage permissions in NTFS?
Configuring File Shares Create a top-level folder that will serve as the root storage folder for all user-created data (for example, C:Data). Create sub-folders in it to segregate and organize data according to job roles and security requirements. Ensure that only IT can create root-level folders.
What to do if you do not have read permissions for a folder?
If a user does not have Read (or equivalent) permissions for a folder, Windows hides the folder from the user’s view. Set the Windows file share permissions pretty leniently — give Everyone, Authenticated Users or Domain Users the Full Control or Change permissions — and rely on NTFS for the real permissions management.
What’s the best way to avoid breaking permissions inheritance?
Create a Global Deny group so that when employees leave the company, you can quickly remove all their file server access by making them members of that group. Avoid breaking permissions inheritance as much as possible. There will be a few folders where this may be necessary, but generally avoid it.