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Application developers are not security specialists, and likely do not have the knowledge and skills to find and fix security issues in a timely manner.
The AWS cloud platform is ripe for security automation.
There are important categories of features of a security automation product for AWS. One category addresses data-in-motion with auto-remediation of API and queuing authentication and encryption.
Here are four essential features to look for in a security automation tool.
Thus, a security automation tool must have the ability to continuously scan for and discover APIs that may pose a security threat to prevent a data breach.
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