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Cloud Security Basics

Understand the shared responsibility model, the CIA triad, defense in depth, least privilege, and zero trust. Know core platform security services including Security Center posture and threat detection, ActionTrail auditing, Cloud Config compliance, Cloud Monitor alarms, and Certificate Management Service.

Identity and Access Management on Alibaba Cloud

Manage identities and permissions with Resource Access Management (RAM) users, groups, roles, and policies, use STS temporary credentials, enforce MFA, protect the root account, practice AccessKey hygiene, configure SSO and identity federation, and control privileged access with Bastionhost and secrets management.

Host Security on Alibaba Cloud

Secure ECS hosts with the Security Center agent, vulnerability and baseline management, intrusion and webshell detection, and file integrity monitoring. Apply security groups, ECS disk encryption with KMS, image hardening, brute-force defense, and controls that limit lateral movement.

Data Security on Alibaba Cloud

Protect data with Key Management Service (KMS), customer master keys and envelope encryption, key rotation and Bring Your Own Key, OSS and RDS encryption, Sensitive Data Discovery and classification, data masking, signed URLs, backups, and data residency considerations.

Network Security and Threat Mitigation on Alibaba Cloud

Defend applications and networks with Web Application Firewall (WAF), Anti-DDoS Pro and Premium, Cloud Firewall and intrusion prevention, secure VPC and NAT design, rate limiting, bot management, and Log Service, and execute the incident response lifecycle from containment through lessons learned.