# Security
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 The security pillar includes best practices to help you protect information, systems, and assets while delivering business value. This section provides in-depth, best-practice guidance for architecting secure IoT workloads on AWS. 

**Topics**
+ [Design principles](design-principles-sec.md)
+ [Definitions](definitions-sec.md)
+ [Identity and access management](identity-and-access-management.md)
+ [Detective controls](detective-controls.md)
+ [Infrastructure protection](infrastructure-protection.md)
+ [Data protection](data-protection.md)
+ [Incident response](incident-response.md)
+ [Application security](application-security.md)
+ [Vulnerability management](vulnerability-management.md)
+ [Security governance](security-governance.md)
+ [Security assurance](security-assurance.md)
+ [Key AWS services](key-aws-services-sec.md)
+ [Resources](resources-sec.md)