2. Cloud Security Principles Compliance
o Issued 1 Apr 2014 by the CESG
o They replace the Business Impact Levels model (BIL: IL1-IL5+)
o Distributed certification model
o Risk-based approach: suitability for purpose
o New protective marking mechanisms
o AWS Whitepaper Available
3. Cyber Essentials Plus Compliance in Dublin
Cyber Essentials Plus is a UK
Government-backed, industry-
supported certification scheme
that helps organisations
demonstrate security against
common cyber attacks.
The ‘Plus’ scheme benefits from
independent testing and validation
compared to the baseline ‘Cyber
Essentials’ scheme that is self-
attested.
6. AWS Security Tools
AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Config Rules
Amazon Inspector
Periodic evaluation of alignment with AWS Best
Practices. Not just Security-related.
Create rules that govern configuration of your
AWS resources. Continuous evaluation.
Security insights into your applications.
Runs on EC2 instances; on-demand scans
AWS Compliance AWS: Security of the cloud
Customer: Security in the cloud
8. AWS Config Rules features
Flexible rules evaluated continuously and
retroactively
Dashboard and reports for common goals
Customizable remediation
API automation
10. AWS Config Rules benefits
Continuous monitoring for
unexpected changes
Shared compliance
across your organization
Simplified management of
configuration changes
11.
12. Security by Design - SbD
• Systematic approach to
ensure security
• Formalizes AWS account design
• Automates security controls
• Streamlines auditing
• Provides control insights
throughout the IT
management process
AWS
CloudTrail
AWS
CloudHSM
AWS IAM
AWS KMS
AWS
Config
13. GoldBase - Scripting your governance policy
Set of CloudFormation Templates & Reference
Arhcitectures that accelerate compliance with PCI, EU
Personal Data Protection, HIPAA, FFIEC, FISMA, CJIS
Result: Reliable technical implementation of administrative
controls
14. What is Inspector?
• Application security assessment
• Selectable built-in rules
• Security findings
• Guidance and management
• Automatable via APIs
15. Rule packages
• CVE (common vulnerabilities and exposures)
• Network security best practices
• Authentication best practices
• Operating system security best practices
• Application security best practices
• PCI DSS 3.0 readiness
19. What is AWS WAF?
Application DDoS
Good users
Bad guys
Web server Database
AWS
WAF
AWS WAF rules:
1: BLOCK requests from bad guys.
2: ALLOW requests from good guys.
Types of conditions in rules:
1: Source IP/range
2: String Match
3: SQL Injection
24. Flow Log Record Structure
Event-Version
Account Number
ENI-ID
Source-IP
Destination-IP
SourcePort
Destination-Port
Protocol Number
Number of Packets
Number of Bytes
Start-Time Window
End-Time Window
Action
State
2 123456789 eni-31607853 172.16.0.10 172.16.0.172 80 41707 6 1 40 1440402534 1440402589
ACCEPT OK
25. AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) makes it easy to
provision, manage, deploy, and renew SSL/TLS certificates
on the AWS platform.
Introducing AWS Certificate Manager
26. AWS Certificate Manager
• Provision trusted SSL/TLS certificates from AWS for use
with AWS resources:
• Elastic Load Balancing
• Amazon CloudFront distributions
• AWS handles the “maths and maintenance”
• Key pair and CSR generation
• Managed renewal and deployment
• Domain validation (DV) through email
• Available through AWS Management console, CLI, or API
27. AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Benefits
• Protect and secure websites and applications
• Provision certificates quickly and easily
• Free
• Managed certificate renewal
• Secure key management
• Centrally manage certificates on the AWS Cloud
• Integrated with other AWS Cloud Services
28. ACM Use Cases
• Help meet regulatory compliance requirements for
encryption of data in transit
• PCI, FedRAMP and HIPAA
• Minimize downtime and outages
• Improve search rankings by using SSL/TLS
29. ACM-Provided Certificates
Domain names
• Single domain name: www.example.com
• Wildcard domain names: *.example.com
• Combination of wildcard and non-wildcard names
• Multiple domain names in the same certificate (up to 10)
ACM-provided certificates are managed
• Private keys are generated, protected, and managed
• ACM-provided certificates cannot be used on EC2 instances or on-premises servers
• Can be used with AWS services, such as ELB and CloudFront
Algorithms
• RSA 2048 and SHA-256
30. What is available at launch?
• SSL/TLS certificates for use with AWS services (ELB and
CloudFront)
• Availability in US-East (N. Virginia)
• Domain validation via email
• Console, API, CLI
• Integration with ELB and CloudFront
• Managed renewal and deployment
31. What is NOT available at launch?
• Availability in additional regions
• Certificates for use on EC2
• “Take home” certificates that can be used anywhere
• Cross-region certificates
• Cross-account access to certificates
• CloudTrail logging of ACM API calls
• Tagging
• Certificates for email, code signing, or any other purpose except
SSL/TLS termination
32. Certification & Education
• Security Fundamentals on AWS
• free, online course for security auditors and
analysts
• Security Operations on AWS
• 3-day class for Security engineers, architects,
analysts, and auditors
• AWS Certification
• Security is part of all AWS exams
34. o AWS Security Solutions Architects
o AWS Professional Services
o AWS Secure by Design & GoldBase
o AWS Security Best Practices
o Partner Professional Services
o AWS Training and Certification
o Understand Compliance Requirements
Prepare
35. o Use IAM – consider MFA, roles, federation, SSO
o Implement Amazon WAF
o Leverage S2N for secure TLS connections
o Implement Config Rules to enforce compliance
o Implement Amazon Inspector to identify
vulnerabilities early on
Prevent
36. o CloudTrail enabled across all accounts and services
o Consider Config & Config Rules logs
o Inspector can be used as a detective tool
o Trusted Advisor goes beyond just security
o Use CloudWatch logs
o VPC Flow Logs give insight into intended and
unintended communication taking place into your VPC
o Look at partner log management and security
monitoring solutions
Detect
37. o Be Prepared:
o Develop, acquire or hire Security Incident Response
capabilities
o Test preparedness via game days
o Automated response and containment is always
better than manual response
o AWS supports forensic investigations
o Leverage AWS Support for best results
o Talk to our security partners
Respond