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Added Scout2 for security auditing (#196)

* Added Scout2 for security auditing

* Update README.md
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- [**AWS WAF**](https://aws.amazon.com/waf) is a web application firewall to help you protect your applications from common attack patterns.
- **Security auditing:**
- [Security Monkey](https://github.com/Netflix/security_monkey) is an open source tool that is designed to assist with security audits.
- [Scout2](https://github.com/nccgroup/Scout2) is an open source tool that uses AWS APIs to assess an environment's security posture. Scout2 is stable and actively maintained.
- 🔹**Export and audit security settings:** You can audit security policies simply by exporting settings using AWS APIs, e.g. using a Boto script like [SecConfig.py](https://gist.github.com/jlevy/cce1b44fc24f94599d0a4b3e613cc15d) (from [this 2013 talk](http://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices/intrusion-detection-in-the-cloud-sec402-aws-reinvent-2013)) and then reviewing and monitoring changes manually or automatically.
### Security and IAM Gotchas and Limitations