The State of AWS Security 2026
From IAM to Agentic AI: A Practitioner's Guide
Everything you need to secure an AWS environment in 2026, from IAM policies and S3 hardening to agentic AI threat models. Written by a practitioner, for practitioners. No fluff, just controls you can deploy today.
Chapters covering the full AWS security spectrum
Actionable security controls with CLI commands
Architecture diagrams
"What Goes Wrong in Practice" sections from real-world experience
8 Chapters. Full AWS Security Coverage.
From threat landscape analysis to a ready-to-execute action plan, every chapter maps directly to real AWS controls.
The 2026 AWS Threat Landscape
How attackers are targeting AWS environments today and what the latest breach patterns reveal.
IAM & Identity: From Basics to Trusted Identity Propagation
Lock down access with least-privilege policies, SCPs, and modern identity federation.
Securing Data: S3, Encryption & Data Classification
Prevent data exposure with bucket policies, KMS encryption, and Macie-driven classification.
Network Security: VPC, Zero Trust & WAF
Design network architectures that assume breach and enforce Zero Trust at every layer.
Monitoring & Detection: See Everything, Miss Nothing
Build a detection pipeline with CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Security Hub, and custom alerts.
Securing Agentic AI on AWS
Apply security controls to Bedrock agents, prompt injection defenses, and AI-specific IAM.
Compliance & Audit: Frameworks That Matter
Map AWS controls to CIS, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 with automated compliance checks.
Your AWS Security Action Plan
A prioritized roadmap to go from audit findings to a hardened AWS environment.
Written by a Practitioner
Tarek Cheikh
Founder & AWS Cloud Architect, Toc Consulting
Tarek is an AWS security specialist and cloud architect who has spent over a decade designing, auditing, and hardening AWS environments for organizations across industries. He founded Toc Consulting to bring practitioner-level security expertise to teams that need it most, with a focus on actionable controls, not checkbox compliance.
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