Review Cloud Security With an AWS Security Assessment Report

Overview

You rely on the cloud to remain competitive, agile, and secure. However, maintaining a good security posture still requires forethought, planning, good architectural decisions, adherence to rigorous compliance standards, and vigilance in following best practices.

You can use our AWS cloud security assessment to gauge the security posture of your cloud environment against AWS best practices. We’ll help you review results and offer recommended remediation strategies to resolve vulnerabilities and reduce your attack surface.

Improved Security Posture

Understand your current security posture and set priorities for improving it along with actionable advice for how to accomplish your objectives.
The Foundation of a Proactive & Focused Strategy

Set a long-term strategy for strengthening your infrastructure’s security and build a plan to stay aligned with the ever-evolving threat environment and best practices.
Access to Reliable Benchmarks

Leverage the industry-leading Center for Internet Security (CIS) Foundations Benchmark to ensure your business is following best practices to reduce risk to your environment.

     Features
    
Well-Architected Security Best Practices and Strategic Technology Roadmapping

    Once Mission Cloud fully learns and understands your business objectives, our security assessment evaluates your environment against AWS well-architected security best practices and Center for Internet Security (CIS) benchmarks for AWS.

This process consists of a two-prong approach: 1) A security best practices scan and 2) A hands-on security assessment and review.

We’ll gauge the fundamental health of your company’s cloud infrastructure and help you start to integrate the technologies, architectures, and operational practices that drive a cost-effective, secure environment. 

Our cloud experts consolidate all data, recommendations, and insights from the assessment into an actionable formal findings report so that you can see your security strengths and weaknesses. From there, we’ll work with you to establish an actionable plan.

During the assessment, we’ll evaluate the following areas:

Organizations and Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- AWS Organizations
- Organizational Units and Policies
- Root Access Controls
- IAM Settings
- IAM Users, Groups, Roles and Policies
- Federation and Authentication
Network Architecture
- Security Groups
- Ingress/Egress Controls and Management Access Patterns
- Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Subnet Design
AWS Security Services and Tools
- AWS CloudTrail
- AWS Config
- AWS Security Hub
- Amazon Detective
- S3 Access Logging
- IAM Access Analyzer
- Centralized Logging

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“Our team possesses the required security expertise, but there were a lot of new technologies for us to learn, and security best practices constantly evolve. To roll out new security controls quickly and meet the needs of our customers, we needed to turn to a cloud security partner.”

Scott Burklund

CIO and Co-Founder of Preverity

How do I determine the severity of a security issue?

Some of this depends on the context of your environment, the markets and customers you serve, and the nature of the applications affected. In general, a vulnerability represents a greater risk when it compromises sensitive systems, allows access to sensitive data, or could allow an attacker to control some or all of your AWS environment. Prioritizing which vulnerabilities to fix can be difficult to determine, which is why we recommend the expert advice of a partner to review your assessment with you and make sense of its findings.

I have a specific compliance benchmark I need to meet. Can you help me with that?

Yes. Mission Cloud commonly works with customers looking to maintain or achieve compliance goals like HIPAA, SOC2, PCI, ISO, GDPR, and others. Compliance requirements vary from business to business and where you are on your compliance journey. Keep in mind that we can help with the engineering tasks associated with meeting compliance requirements, but we do not provide you with the business processes you’ll have to implement to qualify, like incident protocols or documentation processes, for example.

I’ve assessed my security and found an issue my team doesn’t know how to remediate. Will Mission Cloud help me?

I’m considering a multi-account architecture for better IAM controls. How should I do that?

We frequently implement AWS Control Tower and AWS Organizations for precisely that architecture. Multi-account architectures are a powerful way to compartmentalize access to your environment, limit “blast radius” should an account be compromised, and further secure sensitive data and systems. This setup is often a critical ingredient to strengthening your security posture and maintaining best practices.

I feel like implementing security best practices can make it difficult to operate in my environment—are they always the right tradeoff?

Generally speaking, if you find security best practices creating significant operational friction, it’s a sign that there are other underlying issues with how you have architected your environment. Keep in mind that security is just one pillar of the well-architected framework, which also includes among its pillars Operational Excellence. So if you find yourself making operational tradeoffs, there may be additional best practices you need to consider implementing. This isn’t to say there are never tradeoffs with security practices, but a well-architected environment will mitigate many of these just from having the right foundations in place.

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Each company’s security posture is unique. A security assessment from Mission Cloud gives you the knowledge and confidence you need to protect your AWS infrastructure and digital assets. Schedule a free consultation with one of our cloud advisors to discuss your cloud security needs.

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AWS Cloud Security Assessment

Assess Your Cloud Security Against AWS Best Practices

Develop a Clear Picture of Your Security Posture and Areas for Improvement

Improved Security Posture

The Foundation of a Proactive & Focused Strategy

Access to Reliable Benchmarks

Well-Architected Security Best Practices and Strategic Technology Roadmapping

Organizations and Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Network Architecture

AWS Security Services and Tools

“Our team possesses the required security expertise, but there were a lot of new technologies for us to learn, and security best practices constantly evolve. To roll out new security controls quickly and meet the needs of our customers, we needed to turn to a cloud security partner.”

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