Amazon Web Services (AWS), which allows companies to dynamically scale their infrastructure and applications, is a revolutionary technology. They have also excelled at incorporating security features into their offerings. AWS acknowledges that they are responsible for protecting their infrastructure but it is up to the users to ensure that AWS services are configured in accordance with best practices. Our AWS cloud training courses will teach you how to configure AWS services correctly and much more.
AWS takes layer security very seriously and provides administrators with tools to ensure that their AWS deployments remain as secure as possible. The ease of deployment is one of the biggest advantages of AWS’s security stack. It is often as simple as subscribing.
These are some of the AWS tools that are available.
AWS Shield
AWS Shield provides managed DDoS protection services. Shield can protect EC2, Loadbalers, CloudFront and Global Accelerator as well as Route 53 resources. DDoS protection may not sound revolutionary, but Amazon claims that 99 per cent of infrastructure flood attacks that are detected by Shield are mitigated within less than one second using CloudFront.
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Start trainingSometimes, attacks are just meant to stop a company doing business. A tool that allows you stay up without having to engage your security teams can be a competitive advantage. AWS shield can protect websites even if they are not hosted within AWS.
AWS Shield ensures that your services are available at an unmatched success rate.
GuardDuty
GuardDuty is the “watcher at the wall”. GuardDuty is a managed threat identification service that is easy to deploy and scales with your infrastructure. GuardDuty will analyze logs from all your accounts and services to ensure that you are protected. Amazon claims that GuardDuty analyses tens to billions of events across AWS and uses machine learning to provide accurate and actionable alerts. Few other companies can boast such a large data set.
GuardDuty can detect activities related to account compromise, instance compromise, and reconnaissance. This includes things like port scanning, data exfiltration and malware, as well as unusual API calls and attempts to disable logging.
GuardDuty doesn’t allow you to create your own custom alerts. AWS states that it is a “hands-off” tool.
It can automate remediation through AWS Lambda, and integrate into CloudWatch so administrators have one pane of glass.
Guard Duty analyses your logs to make sure you don’t have too.
CloudWatch
CloudWatch is an AWS monitoring tool that monitors everything. CloudWatch gathers logs, events and metrics from your AWS infrastructure so you can see everything happening in your environment.
Anyone who has used a SIEM knows that it is important to have a tool that can aggregate large amounts of data and make it available to engineers. CloudWatch integrates seamlessly with GuardDuty and can provide a lot of information that can be used to help you troubleshoot security issues.
CloudWatch aggregates resource utilization and performance data in addition to security applications. CloudWatch can be used to automate scaling of EC2 instances, to add or remove compute resources. This will ensure that organizations get the most out of their AWS services spend.
CloudWatch is a single-pane of class that provides visibility into log events and security services.
Macie
Macie is all for protecting data. It is a machine-learning service that monitors data access trends and detects anomalies to identify data leaks and unauthorized access. Cloudwatch can receive all of its alerts. This allows you to take advantage of all the automation and custom alerting. It is fully managed. It’s always available.
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