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How does Amazon handle cybersecurity? | UpGuard

Learn about new features, changes, and improvements to UpGuard: Tuesday July 12th is online retail giant Amazon’s self-styled “Prime Day,” and the potential deals mean a surge in online shopping. Designing systems and applications to handle the amount of traffic a site like Amazon sees day to day, much less during promotions like Prime Day, can be difficult in and of itself.

We’ll look at what measures Amazon has in place, what they mean, and a few simple steps to tighten security even further.

Amazon doesn’t use DNSSEC, as it is relatively new and somewhat difficult to implement.

Check out any of your favorite websites with UpGuard’s free external risk grader to see how they stack up against Amazon and others.