AWS Pop-up Loft London Series

1. Shared Responsibility Deep Dive
Gavin Fitzpatrick
Security Assurance Technical Architect- EMEA
22/10/2015

2. Intro to AWS
Everyday, AWS adds enough new server capacity to support Amazon.com
when it was a $7 billion global enterprise.

3. where to place data
isolated by
design
• Data is not replicated to other AWS regions

4. manages

5. AWS Foundation Services
Compute Storage Database Networking
AWS Global
Infrastructure Regions
Availability Zones
Edge Locations
Client-side Data
Encryption
Server-side Data
Encryption
Network Traffic
Protection
Platform, Applications, Identity & Access Management
Operating System, Network & Firewall Configuration
Customer content
Customers
Customers are
responsible for
their security and
compliance IN
the Cloud
AWS is
responsible for
the security OF
the Cloud

6. Infrastructure Services
Container Services
Abstract Services

7. AWS Foundation Services
Compute Storage Database Networking
AWS Global
Infrastructure Regions
Availability Zones
Edge Locations
Optional – Opaque data: 1’s and 0’s (in transit/at rest)
Platform & Applications Management
Customer content
Customers
Managed by
Managed by
Client-Side Data encryption
& Data Integrity Authentication
Network Traffic Protection
Encryption / Integrity / Identity
AWSIAMCustomerIAM
Operating System, Network & Firewall Configuration
Server-Side Encryption
Fire System and/or Data

8. • AWS Responsibility:
• Foundational Services – Networking, Compute, Storage
• AWS Global Infrastructure
• AWS IAM
• AWS API Endpoints

9. AWS Foundation Services
Compute Storage Database Networking
AWS Global
Infrastructure Regions
Availability Zones
Edge Locations
Optional – Opaque data: 1’s and 0’s (in transit/at rest)
Firewall
Configuration
Platform & Applications Management
Operating System, Network Configuration
Customer content
Customers
Managed by
Managed by
Client-Side Data encryption
& Data Integrity Authentication
Network Traffic Protection
Encryption / Integrity / Identity
AWSIAMCustomerIAM

10. • AWS Responsibility:
• Foundational Services – Networking, Compute, Storage
• AWS Global Infrastructure
• AWS IAM
• AWS API Endpoints
• Operating System
• Platform / Application
• High Availability

11. AWS Foundation Services
Compute Storage Database Networking
AWS Global
Infrastructure Regions
Availability Zones
Edge Locations
Platform & Applications Management
Operating System, Network & Firewall Configuration
Customer content
Customers
Managed by
Managed by
Optional – Opaque Data: 1’s and
0’s
(in flight / at rest)
Data Protection by the Platform
Protection of Data at Rest
Network Traffic Protection by the Platform
Protection of Data at in Transit
Client-Side Data Encryption
& Data Integrity Authentication
AWSIAM

12. • AWS Responsibility:
• Foundational Services – Networking, Compute, Storage
• AWS Global Infrastructure
• AWS IAM
• AWS API Endpoints
• Operating System
• Platform / Application
• Data Protection (Rest - SSE, Transit)
• High Availability / Scaling

13. Infrastructure Services
Applications
Operating System
Container Services Abstract Services
Networking/Firewall
Data
Customer IAM
AWS IAM
Firewall
Data
AWS IAM
Data
Customer IAM
AWS IAM

14. OF

15. AWS Foundation Services
Hypervisor Compute Storage Network
AWS Global
Infrastructure
Regions
AWS is responsible
for the security OF
the cloud
AWS
Availability Zones Edge Locations

16. on AWS
•Start on base of accredited services
•Functionally necessary – high watermark of
requirements
•Audits done by third party experts
•Accountable to everyone
•Continuous monitoring
•Compliance approach based on all workload
scenarios
•Security innovation drives broad compliance
on-Prem
• Start with bare concrete
• Functionally optional
– (you can build a secure system without it)
• Audits done by an in-house team
• Accountable to yourself
• Typically check once a year
• Workload-specific compliance checks
• Must keep pace and invest in security innovation
Auditing - Comparison
on-Prem vs onAWS

19. AWS Foundation Services
Compute Storage Database Networking
AWS Global
Infrastructure Regions
Availability Zones
Edge Locations
Your own
accreditation
Your own
certifications
Your own
external audits Customer scope and
effort is reduced
Better results
through focused
efforts
Built on AWS
consistent baseline
controls
Customers

20. accreditation certification possible

22. •Security Control Responsibility Matrix (CRM)

24. •AWS CloudFormation templates

25. •User Guides and Scripts to assist with deployment

27. Helpful Resources
https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/compliance-enablers/
https://aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/overview-of-risk-and-compliance/
https://aws.amazon.com/compliance
https://aws.amazon.com/security
https://blogs.aws.amazon.com/security/
awsaudittraining@amazon.com

28. awscompliance