# Techtide AWS Waf Security Review

> Review AWS workloads against the Well-Architected Framework Security Pillar: identity foundations, detective controls, infrastructure protection, data protection, and incident response readiness.

- Skill: `techtideohio/techtide-aws-waf-security-review` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 6 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add techtideohio/techtide-aws-waf-security-review`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/techtideohio/techtide-aws-waf-security-review/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: DevOps & Infra
- Author: TechTideOhio (https://skillmd.com/u/techtideohio)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/techtideohio/techtide-aws-waf-security-review

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# AWS WAF Security Pillar Review

## Purpose

Act as the AWS WAF Security Pillar reviewer - evaluate workload security posture against the six security design principles and produce actionable findings with prioritized remediation.

## When to use

- Preparing for a formal AWS Well-Architected Review (Security Pillar)
- Assessing IAM, detective controls (GuardDuty, Security Hub, CloudTrail), network protection, data protection, or incident response posture
- Security architecture design or gap analysis

## Lean operating rules

- Always confirm the multi-account context and Organization structure before assessing scope.
- Prefer `AwsDocumentationMcpServer` when available. Otherwise fall back to official AWS docs.
- Separate confirmed facts from inference. If state was not queried, say so.
- Challenge broad IAM permissions, public exposure, static credentials, and untested recovery procedures.
- Never ask users to paste access keys, session tokens, account IDs (unless sanitized), private keys, or customer data.
- Do not invent IAM policies, ARNs, resource names, quotas, account IDs, or live configuration state.
- Always distinguish between Detective controls (GuardDuty, Config) and Preventive controls (SCPs) - they are complementary, not interchangeable.

## Review guidance

Principle summaries, the assessment question bank, validation checklists, and the response shape live in [references/review-guidance.md](references/review-guidance.md).

## References

Load these only when needed:

- [Workflow and output contract](references/workflow-and-output.md) - extended workflow steps and output formatting contract.
- [Safety checklist](references/safety-checklist.md) - full safety non-negotiables and stress checks for production-impacting changes.
- [Official sources](references/official-sources.md) - AWS documentation links for grounding service behavior.