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Understanding AWS Security

Stephen Schmidt

Vice President, Security Engineering &

Chief Information Security Officer

Different customer viewpoints on

security:• CEO: protect shareholder value

• PR exec: keep out of the news

• CI{S}O: preserve the confidentiality, integrity

and availability of data

AWS Viewpoint on SecurityArt Science

Security is Our No.1 PriorityComprehensive Security Capabilities to Support Virtually Any Workload

AWS Cloud Security

“Based on our experience, I believe that we can be

even more secure in the AWS cloud than in our

own data centers.”

-Tom Soderstrom, CTO, NASA JPL

AWS Security Offers Customers More

Visibility Auditability Control

Visibility

– In the AWS cloud, see your entire infrastructure at the click of a

mouse

– Can you map your current network?

AWS Security Delivers More Auditability

• Consistent, regular, exhaustive 3rd party

evaluations with commonly understood results

IDC Survey

Attitudes and Perceptions Around Security and Cloud Services

Nearly 60% of organizations agreed that CSPs [cloud service

providers] provide better security than their own IT organizations.

Source: IDC 2013 U.S. Cloud Security Survey,

doc #242836, September 2013

Visibility

• Logs == one component of visibility

– Obtain

– Retain

– Analyze

AWS CloudTrail

You are making API

calls...

On a growing set of services

around the world…

CloudTrail is continuously recording API

calls…

And delivering log files to you

Use cases enabled by CloudTrail

• Security Analysis Use log files as an input into log management and analysis solutions to perform security

analysis and to detect user behavior patterns.

• Track Changes to AWS Resources Track creation, modification, and deletion of AWS resources such as Amazon EC2

instances, Amazon VPC security groups and Amazon EBS volumes.

• Troubleshoot Operational Issues Quickly identify the most recent changes made to resources in your environment.

• Compliance Aid Easier to demonstrate compliance with internal policies and regulatory standards.

What is AWS CloudTrail?

• CloudTrail records API calls in your account and delivers a log file to your S3 bucket.

• Typically, delivers an event within 15 minutes of the API call.

• Log files are delivered approximately every 5 minutes.

• Multiple partners offer integrated solutions to analyze log files.

Image Source: Jeff Barr

Control

• Defense in Depth– Multi level security

• Physical security of the data centers

• Network security

• System security

• Data security

Control

• AWS Staff Access– Staff vetting

– Staff has no logical access to customer instances

Control

• AWS Staff Access– Staff control-plane access limited & monitored

• Bastion hosts

• Least privileged model

Control

• AWS Staff Access– Need to know

– Zoned data center access

• Business needs

• Separate PAMS

Control

• Change management– Continuous operation

• Data destruction– Storage media destroyed before being permitted outside our

datacenters

– Media destruction consistent with US Dept. of Defense Directive

5220.22

Control

• Shared Responsibility– Let AWS do the heavy lifting

– Focus on your business

• AWS• Facility operations

• Physical Security

• Physical Infrastructure

• Network Infrastructure

• Virtualization Infrastructure

• Hardware lifecycle management

• Customer• Choice of Guest OS

• Application Configuration Options

• Account Management flexibility

• Security Groups

• ACLs

• Identity Management

Control• Your data stays where you put it

Australia

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

• Create a logically isolated environment in Amazon’s highly scalable infrastructure

• Specify your private IP address range into one or more public or private subnets

• Control inbound and outbound access to and from individual subnets using stateless Network Access Control Lists

• Protect your Instances with stateful filters for inbound and outbound traffic using Security Groups

• Attach an Elastic IP address to any instance in your VPC so it can be reached directly from the Internet

• Bridge your VPC and your onsite IT infrastructure with an industry standard encrypted VPN connection and/or AWS Direct Connect

• Use a wizard to easily create your VPC in 4 different topologies

Control• Encryption

– Customers choose the solution that’s right for them

• Regulatory

• Contractual

• Best-practices

– Options

• Automated – AWS manages encryption for the customer

• Enabled – customer manages encryption using AWS services

• Client-side – customer manages encryption using their own means

AWS Security Delivers More Control & GranularityCustomize the implementation based on your business needs

AWS

CloudHSM

Defense in depth

Rapid scale for security

Automated checks with AWS Trusted Advisor

Fine grained access controls

Server side encryption

Multi Factor authentication

Dedicated instances

Direct connection, Storage Gateway

HSM-based key storage

AWS IAM

Amazon VPC

AWS Direct

Connect

AWS Storage

Gateway

ControlAWS CloudHSM

• Managed and monitored by AWS, but you control the keys

• Increase performance for applications that use HSMs for key storage or encryption

• Comply with stringent regulatory and contractual requirements for key protection

EC2 Instance

AWS CloudHSM

AWS CloudHSM

Control

• SSO Federation using SAML– Support for SAML 2.0

– Use existing SAML identity providers to access AWS Resources

• You don’t have to add additional software!

– AWS Management Console SSO

• New sign-in URL

– https://signin.aws.amazon.com/SAML?Token=<yourdatahere>

– API federation using new assumeRoleWithSAML API

DynamoDB Fine Grained Access Control• Directly and securely access

application data in DynamoDB

• Specify access permissions at table, item and attribute levels

• With Web Identity Federation, completely remove the need for proxy servers to perform authorization

More New Security Features!Control access to & encryption of your data

• Elastic Load Balancing

– Perfect Forward Secrecy

– Server Order Preference

– Predefined Security Policies

• Powerful integrated permissions

– Resource level permissions: EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudFormation

– Enhanced IAM support: SWF, EMR, Storage Gateway, CloudFormation, Redshift, Elastic Beanstalk

• AWS Marketplace

– 1-Click Launch into VPC

• Appliances from:

– Checkpoint

– Cisco

– Citrix

– Riverbed

– Silverpeak

– Sophos

– And many more…

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Understanding AWS Security

Stephen Schmidt

Vice President, Security Engineering &

Chief Information Security Officer

Thank you!