Security Day What's (nearly) New

1. © 2015, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
Dave Walker
SpecialistSolutions Architect,Security & Compliance
EMEA
28/01/16
What’s (nearly) New?
London

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
This is to certify that
Amazon Web Services (Scope limited to Dublin Region)
60 Holborn Viaduct London EC1A 2FD
Has been assessed
by Zia Rehman for Perspective Risk Ltd
against the Cyber Essentials Scheme Test Specification
Level of certification: Cyber Essentials PLUS
Scope: Cyber Essentials Plus of external Dublin network perimeter, sample desktop and mobile devices
Certification date: August 7th, 2015
Recommended re-assessment date: August 6th, 2016
Certificate no.: 2864877880893798
This Certificate confirms that the organisation named was assessed against the Cyber Essentials RequirementsThis Certificate confirms that the organisation named was assessed against the Cyber Essentials Requirements
dated June 2014, and at the time of testing, the organisation's ICT defences were assessed to meet thedated June 2014, and at the time of testing, the organisation's ICT defences were assessed to meet the
Requirements. Cyber Essentials Certification indicates that the organisation has implemented a sensible baseline ofRequirements. Cyber Essentials Certification indicates that the organisation has implemented a sensible baseline of
organisational cyber security only, and implies no guarantee of effective defence against commodity cyber attacksorganisational cyber security only, and implies no guarantee of effective defence against commodity cyber attacks
circumventing this baseline. Organisations are recommended to define and understand the risks to theircircumventing this baseline. Organisations are recommended to define and understand the risks to their
organisation and take all appropriate action to mitigate or reduce any issues, which may require a greater degree oforganisation and take all appropriate action to mitigate or reduce any issues, which may require a greater degree of
rigour or technical investment than is required for Cyber Essentials alone.rigour or technical investment than is required for Cyber Essentials alone.
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.

4. ISO 27018
Based on certification examination in conformity with defined
requirements in ISO/IEC17021:2011 and ISO/IEC 27006:2011,
the Information Security Management System
as defined and implemented by
headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States of America,
certified under certification number [2013-009],
is also compliant with the requirements as stated in the standard:
EY CertifyPoint will, according to the certification agreement
dated October 23, 2014, perform surveillance audits and acknowledge the
certificate until the expiration date of this certificate or the expiration of the
related ISMS certificate with number [2013-009].
*This certificate is applicable for the assets, services and locations as described in the
scoping section on the back of this certificate, with regard to the specific requirements
for information security and protection of personally identifiable information (PII)
as stated in Statement of Applicability version 2015,01, approved on September 15, 2015.
ISO/IEC 27018:2014
Issue date of certificate: October 1, 2015
Expiration date of certificate: November 12, 2016
Amazon Web Services, Inc.*
Certificate
Certificate number: 2015-016
Certified by EY CertifyPoint since:
October 1, 2015
© Copyrights with regard to this document reside with Ernst & Young CertifyPoint B.V. headquartered at
Antonio Vivaldistraat 150, 1083 HP Amsterdam, The Netherlands. All rights reserved.
Drs. R. Toppen RA
Director EY CertifyPoint
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o Customers control their content.
o Customers' content will not be used for any
unauthorized purposes.
o Physical media is destroyed prior to leaving
AWS data centers.
o AWS provides customers the means to
delete their content.
o AWS doesn’t disclose customers' content

5. ISO 27017
Based on certification examination in conformity with defined
requirements in ISO/IEC17021:2011 and ISO/IEC 27006:2011,
the Information Security Management System
as defined and implemented by
headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States of America,
certified under certification number [2013-009],
is also compliant with the requirements as stated in the standard:
EY CertifyPoint will, according to the certification agreement
dated October 23, 2014, perform surveillance audits and acknowledge the
certificate until the expiration date of this certificate or the expiration of the
related ISMS certificate with number [2013-009].
*This certificate is applicable for the assets, services and locations as described in the
scoping section on the back of this certificate, with regard to the specific requirements
for information security and protection of personally identifiable information (PII)
as stated in Statement of Applicability version 2015,01, approved on September 15, 2015.
ISO/IEC 27018:2014
Issue date of certificate: October 1, 2015
Expiration date of certificate: November 12, 2016
Amazon Web Services, Inc.*
Certificate
Certificate number: 2015-016
Certified by EY CertifyPoint since:
October 1, 2015
© Copyrights with regard to this document reside with Ernst & Young CertifyPoint B.V. headquartered at
Antonio Vivaldistraat 150, 1083 HP Amsterdam, The Netherlands. All rights reserved.
Drs. R. Toppen RA
Director EY CertifyPoint
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o Newest ISO code of practice
o Builds on top of ISO 27002
o Information security controls specific to
Cloud services
o Scope includes all AWS Regions and edge
locations

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 insightsinto your applications.
Runs on EC2 instances; on-demand scans
AWS Compliance AWS: Security of the cloud
Customer: Security in the cloud

7. Cloud Config Rules

8. AWS Config Rules features
Flexible rules evaluated continuously and
retroactively
Dashboard and reports for common goals
Customizable remediation
API automation

9. AWS Config Rules
Broad ecosystem of solutions

10. AWS Config Rules benefits
Continuous monitoring for
unexpected changes
Shared compliance
across your organization
Simplified management of
configuration changes

11. 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

12. 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

13. What is Inspector?
• Application security assessment
• Selectable built-in rules
• Security findings
• Guidance and management
• Automatable via APIs

14. 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

15. Getting started

16. Prioritized findings

17. Detailed remediation recommendations

18. 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

19. Why AWS WAF?
Application DDoS, Vulnerabilities, Abuse
Good users
Bad guys
Web server Database

20. AWS WAF Partner integrations
• Alert Logic, Trend Micro, and Imperva integrating with AWS WAF
• Offer additional detection and threat intelligence
• Dynamically modify rulesets of AWS WAF for increased protection

21. S2N – AWS Implementation of TLS
• Small:
• ~6,000 lines of code, all audited
• ~80% less memory consumed
• Fast:
• 12% faster
• Simple:
• Avoid rarely used options/extensions

22. VPC Flow Logs

23. 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

24. AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) makes it easy to
provision, manage, deploy, and renew SSL/TLS certificates
on the AWS platform.
Introducing AWS Certificate Manager

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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

28. 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

29. 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

30. 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

31. 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

32. Rich Security Capabilities in the Cloud
Prepare
Prevent
Detect
Respond

33. 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

34. 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

35. 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

36. 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

38. Be Secure & Compliant in
the Cloud!

39. Thank you!