Securing Your Cloud: Introducing DigitalOcean Security Best Practices Guides

At DigitalOcean, we believe that security should be at the core of everything you do in the cloud. Whether you’re running mission-critical applications or storing sensitive data, securing your systems is not just a best practice—it’s a necessity. That’s why we’re excited to introduce our Security Best Practices Guides, designed to empower you with the knowledge you need to protect your cloud instance.

Why Security Matters

In the rapidly evolving world of cloud computing, threats are constantly changing. Malicious actors are always on the lookout for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations to exploit. As a cloud service provider, it’s our job to not only provide reliable and scalable solutions but also to uphold our commitment to protect your customers’ data under the Shared Responsibility Model.

We understand that navigating security can be complex and daunting. That’s why we’ve made it our mission to offer simple, actionable, and effective hardening guidelines to ensure your systems are as secure as possible.

What Are the Security Best Practices Guides?

Our Security Best Practices Guides cover best practices and configurations to protect your utilization of our most popular products. These guides address topics like adding admission controllers to DOKS, upgrading your Droplet’s operating system, and setting a Spaces bucket lifecycle policy, to name a few.

We’ve broken down security concepts into digestible, step-by-step instructions. The guides offer the following:

• Rationale - Why is this recommendation important?
• Impact - What, if any, adverse effects are caused by implementing the recommendation?
• Audit Procedure - How can a user check if the recommendation has been implemented?
• Remediation Procedure - How is the recommendation implemented?

By following these guides, you can be confident that you’re taking proactive steps to secure your cloud infrastructure against potential vulnerabilities.

Our Security Best Practices Guides are not just a collection of best practices—they are a reflection of one of our core beliefs: DO Simple. This means we strive to make cloud application development and security easy. With these guides, you will be able to make informed decisions about your cloud infrastructure, reducing your risk and promoting the security of your data, applications, and business operations.

Cloud security is an ever-changing landscape. Our team continuously reviews and updates these guides to reflect the best and latest security practices.

Learn more about DigitalOcean’s security processes on our Blog or Security webpage. If you believe you have identified a security issue in DigitalOcean’s products, please report it via our bug bounty program.

Security Best Practices Guides