This is our third post on AWS security best practices, to be compiled into a short paper. See alsoour first post, on defending the management plane and our second post, on using built-in AWS tools.
In our last Firestarter for this year, Mike, Adrian, and I take on some of the latest security predictions for 2015. Needless to say, we aren’t impressed. We do, however, close out with some trends we are seeing which are likely to play out next year, and are MOST DEFINITELY NOT PREDICTIONS.
This is our second post on AWS security best practices, to be compiled into a short paper.The first post on defending the management plane is here.
In the first post of this series on Security and Privacy on the Encrypted Network, we argued that organizations need to encrypt more traffic. Unfortunately the inability to see and inspect encrypted traffic impairs the ability to enforce security controls/policies and meet compliance mandates. So let’s dig into how to strategically decrypt traffic in order to address a few key use cases – including enforcing security policies and monitoring for security and compliance. We also need to factor in…
Rich here.
There once was a boy from Securosis.
Who had an enormous… to do list.
With papers to write…
Every so often the kids do something that makes me smile. Evidently the Boss and I are doing something right and they are learning from our examples. I am constantly amused by the huge personality XX2 has, especially when performing. She’s the drama queen, but in a good way… most of the time.
I really enjoyed Thom Langford’s recent post Three Envelopes, One CISO, on the old parable about preparing three envelopes to defer blame for bad things – until you cannot shift it, when you take the bullet.
We will wrap up this series with a migration path to monitoring the hybrid cloud. Whether you choose to monitor the cloud services you consume, or go all the way and create your own SOC in the cloud, these steps will get you there. Let’s dive in.
This is a short series on where to start with AWS security. We plan to release it as a concise white paper soon. It doesn’t cover everything but is designed to kickstart and prioritize your cloud security program on Amazon. We do plan to write a much deeper paper next year, but we received several requests for something covering the fundamentals, so here you go…
Rich here.
I don’t remember actually seeing Star Wars in the movie theater. I was six years old in 1977, and while I cannot remember the feelings of walking along the sticky theater floor, finding a seat I probably had to kneel on to see the screen from, and watching as the lights dimmed and John Williams assaulted my ears, I do remember standing with my father outside. In a line that stretched around the building. My lone image of this transformative day is of waiting near the back doors, my…