This is an earlier version of the AWS Well-Architected Framework. For the latest version, see [AWS Well-Architected Framework](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/framework/welcome.html).

# SEC01-BP05 Keep up-to-date with security recommendations
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 Stay up-to-date with both AWS and industry security recommendations to evolve the security posture of your workload. [AWS Security Bulletins](https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/?card-body.sort-by=item.additionalFields.bulletinDateSort&card-body.sort-order=desc&awsf.bulletins-year=year%232009) contain important information about security and privacy notifications. 

 **Level of risk exposed if this best practice is not established:** High 

## Implementation guidance
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+  Follow AWS updates: Subscribe or regularly check for new recommendations, tips and tricks. 
  +  [AWS Well-Architected Labs](https://wellarchitectedlabs.com/?ref=wellarchitected) 
  +  [AWS security blog](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/?ref=wellarchitected) 
  +  [AWS service documentation](https://aws.amazon.com/documentation/?ref=wellarchitected) 
+  Subscribe to industry news: Regularly review news feeds from multiple sources that are relevant to the technologies that are used in your workload. 
  +  [Example: Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures List](https://cve.mitre.org/cve/?ref=wellarchitected) 

## Resources
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 **Related documents:** 
+  [Security Bulletins](https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/) 

 **Related videos:** 
+  [Security Best Practices the Well-Architected Way](https://youtu.be/u6BCVkXkPnM) 

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for AWS Well-Architected. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query wellarchitected` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).