Security
OVERVIEW
Our Best Practices, AWS Native Security, & CrowdStrike
We help customers secure their AWS environments through a combination of best practices, AWS-native security services, and management through Mission Cloud Secure, which offers 24/7 managed detection and response in partnership with CrowdStrike’s Falcon Complete cloud security platform.
Mission is an AWS Level 1 Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP), and our aim is to help all customers strengthen their security posture. We assert that the right combination of architectural measures and 24/7 active monitoring provides the oversight and defenses needed to reduce your attack surface, limit your blast radius, and adapt to changing threats.
Rest Easy with a Secure AWS Environment
BENEFITS
Understanding Vulnerabilities
Work with our teams to identify vulnerable configurations or out-of-date software, and build a secure, repeatable deployment pipeline.
Architecture Recommendations
We can suggest architectures and service implementations for remediating issues you’ve detected and help you design a system to appropriately monitor your environment.
Harden Your Security
Learn how services like AWS Control Tower, AWS Config, and Amazon OpenSearch can work together with approaches like containers to further harden your security.
Modern Environment
Understanding what you need to audit can be just as important as knowing what you need to protect. We’ll teach you how to run a modern environment that documents itself for your compliance.
Secure Systems
Mission's AWS experts will work with you on network security, data privacy, and organizational controls to help you secure your systems and ensure they’re operating correctly.
Peace of Mind
Security is overwhelming when you don’t know your status. But with tools like AWS Security Hub and CrowdStrike’s Falcon Complete, you gain a holistic picture of your security posture.
I can't even imagine how far behind we would be if we hadn't invested in Mission when we did. They implemented private networks for all our AWS accounts, only accessible over VPN – a huge security milestone. They produced exactly the outcomes we were looking for.
STEPHAN GROB
Sr. Director of IT Infrastructure
AWS CLOUD SECURITY SERVICES
Discover Mission Cloud Secure
Mission Cloud Secure is our fully managed service for 24/7 security monitoring and incident response through a powerful combination of CrowdStrike's world-class security platform and Mission's AWS expertise. Protect your cloud resources, endpoints, and credentials while maintaining compliance and operational excellence.
Cloud Secure Features
24/7 Managed Detection & Response
Our Security Operations Center manages incidents around the clock
CrowdStrike Falcon Complete
The most comprehensive offering from the leader in cloud security
AWS Security Expertise
Award-winning experience in AWS security best practices
Unified Security Platform
Comprehensive visibility into threats, vulnerabilities, and compliance
AWS Security Posture Scan
Mission Cloud’s AWS Security Posture Scan is a focused, one-hour working session with a Mission Cloud Solutions Architect designed to give you a clear picture of where your AWS security stands today.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the most common ways you can make your AWS environment more secure?
Start with native services. Configure IAM permissions around the principle of least privilege, and use VPCs and Security Groups to properly segment your network. Encrypt data at rest and in transit through the built-in capabilities of Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, and EBS — paired with AWS Key Management Service for centralized key management. Log and monitor your environment with AWS CloudTrail, Amazon CloudWatch, and AWS Config. And don't overlook the basics: regularly patch and update your underlying infrastructure, and use AWS Backup to protect and manage your data.
What are the benefits of switching to a multi-account architecture?
By having different accounts for different purposes, you can better ensure that a security issue in a given account doesn’t jeopardize the rest of the system. Compartmentalizing which accounts can touch which resources effectively limits the risk of account-related security and breaches. It can also help you to better track costs, simplify networking, and help meet regulatory or compliance requirements, such as who has access to sensitive customer information.
How can I measure the overall security of my environment?
AWS has its own native tools to do this, like AWS Security Hub. You can also request a security firm to perform an audit, if appropriate. But if you’re looking for a quick way to assess your overall security posture, we recommend our Security Posture Scan, a focused, one-hour working session with a Mission Cloud Solutions Architect designed to give you a clear picture of where your AWS security stands today.
I need a SOC. Is that something Mission offers?
Yes. With Mission Cloud Secure, our fully managed service for security, detection, and response, we offer a SOC through CrowdStrike as part of the ongoing operations support you receive. You’ll also get Cloud Analysts who can help you assess your environment and measure your alignment to best practices as well as a 24/7 CloudOps support team to help with monitoring and incident management.
A recent audit raised some concerns about our overall security posture. Do I need to re-architect?
It depends. Audits can be a combination both of what your infrastructure is, and how it's documented. Sometimes, if it’s a matter of missing documentation, you may be best served by instituting logging and monitoring across your environment to more thoroughly collect information about what’s happening inside of it. But if the audit suggests that your vulnerabilities run deeper than that, it may be time to consider redesigning a part of your infrastructure to better accommodate your security needs.
Is there a point at which I can describe my environment as being “secure” so that I no longer have to worry about it?
Unfortunately not. Security is not binary, and there is not a magic combination of ingredients by which an environment will ever be made totally and permanently secure. Security best practices dictate security in terms of defensive measures. These measures must be re-visited cyclically to keep them hardened against attackers and to ensure that no system falls into a state of vulnerability. But if continuing to manage these kinds of concerns yourself has become taxing, you should consider adopting a managed service, like Mission Cloud Secure, where a partner can help manage and respond to security concerns on your behalf.