---
id: 4267
title: "Stand Your Cloud #2: Host Server Hardening"
source_domain: bishopfox.com
source_url: "https://bishopfox.com/blog/cloud-2-host-server-hardening-2"
published_at: "2015-09-23T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["cloud", "cloud-security", "aws", "encryption", "least-privilege", "hardening", "ebs"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/4267"
lang: en
---

# Stand Your Cloud #2: Host Server Hardening

## Summary

Second post in the AWS security series covers host hardening: EBS encryption caveats (use per-volume keys), the principle of least privilege, and treating cloud VMs like physical servers.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** bishopfox.com
- **Published:** 2015-09-23T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://bishopfox.com/blog/cloud-2-host-server-hardening-2
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/4267