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In other words, how to shave the yak for about 6 months setting up a complicated security infrastructure.

These may all be good practices, but how many of them assume that Amazon itself will get hacked?

For entrepreneur on a budget, isn't #20 the most important one?

How does encrypting data and not allowing passwords for shell accounts affect your budget?

I suspect that many sysadmins have little experience with dm-crypt and all the key management you'd need with it, so learning and installing that stuff has a cost. And you better test thoroughly, because losing a key could mean losing all your data.

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