{"id":7136,"date":"2022-12-08T07:59:52","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T07:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.slitigenz.io\/top-10-security-tools-for-your-aws-environment\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T05:49:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T05:49:11","slug":"top-10-security-tools-for-your-aws-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.slitigenz.io\/vi\/top-10-security-tools-for-your-aws-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Security Tools for Your AWS Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) enables organizations to build and scale applications quickly and securely. However, continuously adding new tools and services introduces new security challenges. According to reports, 70 percent of enterprise IT leaders are\u00a0concerned about how secure they are in the cloud\u00a0and 61 percent of small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) believe their\u00a0cloud data is at risk<\/a>.<\/p>

AWS provides many different security tools to help customers keep their AWS accounts and applications secure. In fact, there was significant focus on AWS security best practices at re:Invent 2020. See the\u00a0Best practices with Amazon S3\u00a0recap and Jeremy Cowan’s\u00a0Securing your Amazon EKS applications: Best practices\u00a0session for some of the details.<\/p>

In this article, we\u2019ll review the top ten AWS security tools you should consider using to improve your security posture in 2021 and beyond. Before we do that, we will briefly explain AWS account security versus application and service security.\u00a0 Organizations must focus on keeping both secure to protect against different types of attacks.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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AWS provides security tools designed to improve both account security and application and service security.<\/p>

An AWS account is an attack vector, as resources and data are accessible through the public application programming interface (API). Implementing a secure identity and access management strategy helps prevent leaking data \u2014 such as in S3 buckets \u2014 to the public. AWS\u2019s many tools provide insights into your configured permissions and access patterns, and record all actions for compliance and audit purposes.<\/p>

Applications and services hosted in AWS are susceptible to different kinds of threats from the outside. Cross-site scripting (XSS), SQL injection, and brute-force attacks target public endpoints. Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks may attempt to bring down your services, potentially compromising your architecture security. Without proper management, sensitive information \u2014 such as database credentials \u2014 may leak.<\/p>

Therefore, it’s critical that organizations migrating to the cloud focus on minimizing risk and improving their overall security posture by addressing both account security as well as application and service security. The following AWS services lock down your cloud security, helping keep your customer data and systems safe from attack.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Top 6 AWS Account Security Tools<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a web service for securely controlling access to AWS resources. It enables you to create and control services for user authentication or limit access to a certain set of people who use your AWS resources.<\/p>

The IAM workflow includes the following six elements:<\/p>

  1. A principal is an entity that can perform actions on an AWS resource. A user, a role or an application can be a principal.<\/li>
  2. Authentication is the process of confirming the identity of the principal trying to access an AWS product. The principal must provide its credentials or required keys for authentication.<\/li>
  3. Request: A principal sends a request to AWS specifying the action and which resource should perform it.<\/li>
  4. Authorization: By default, all resources are denied. IAM authorizes a request only if all parts of the request are allowed by a matching policy. After authenticating and authorizing the request, AWS approves the action.<\/li>
  5. Actions are used to view, create, edit or delete a resource.<\/li>
  6. Resources: A set of actions can be performed on a resource related to your AWS account.<\/li><\/ol>

    Let us explore the components of IAM in the next section of the AWS IAM tutorial.<\/p>

    To review, here are some of the main features of IAM:<\/p>