# Best practices
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 There are five best practice areas for security in the cloud: 
+  Identity and access management  
+  Detective controls 
+  Infrastructure protection  
+  Data protection  
+  Incident response 

 Securing streaming media services includes limiting access to system components and assets to prevent theft, impairment, and destruction, as well as detecting malicious activities such as unauthorized access to assets and resources. Unauthorized access to assets devalues premium content and ultimately impacts revenue. Destruction of assets or impairment of resources may cause an outage, and prevent your customers from viewing content, which might have a monetary business impact. 

 In this section, we provide the best practices available to protect your streaming media services. Although this paper is focused on streaming media, it’s expected that you will also be following the security best practices of the AWS Well-Architected Framework whitepaper. 

## 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).