What is an AWS security configuration review?

An AWS security configuration review is a thorough assessment of an organization's Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment to identify potential security vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. It involves examining various AWS services such as IAM, EC2, S3, Cognito, RDS, Lambda and more for weaknesses. The primary aim is to ensure that AWS resources are being utilized securely, adhering to best practices, and minimizing the risk of data breaches.

These reviews typically encompass checking permissions, evaluating security groups, auditing user roles, and analyzing resource access logs. Regular AWS security reviews are essential for maintaining a secure and compliant cloud environment.

AWS security configuration review

Our AWS security configuration audit offering include a mix of automated and manual review of security best practices for AWS services, such as:

• EC2 Security Assessment: Comprehensive review of your EC2 instances, AMIs, and associated security groups.
• AWS S3 Bucket Security Assessment: Detailed analysis of your S3 storage buckets, their permissions, and associated policies to prevent unintended data exposures.
• RDS and Database Security: Evaluation of relational database services, including automated backups, encryption at rest, and fine-grained access control.
• IAM Role and Policy Review: Deep dive into Identity and Access Management roles, users, groups, and policies, ensuring the principle of least privilege is adhered to and avoiding overly permissive configurations.
• VPC and Networking Analysis: Examination of your Virtual Private Cloud configurations, security groups, NACLs, VPC flow logs, and VPN/Direct Connect setups.
• AWS Lambda Security Assessment: Assessment of your serverless computing services, permissions, and associated triggers.
• Cognito User Pool and Identity Pool Review: Comprehensive examination of your Cognito configurations, ensuring robust user authentication and authorization mechanisms.
• CloudTrail and CloudWatch Logging Audit: Evaluation of your logging, monitoring, and alerting setups to identify any security events or misconfigurations.
• KMS and Secrets Manager Review: Securely manage cryptographic keys and secrets by assessing their lifecycle, rotation policies, and access controls.
• ECR, ECS and EKS Security Assessment: Analysis of your container services, including task definitions, network modes, and associated IAM roles.

We have extensive experience in performing AWS security reviews for businesses across various sectors. Our assessments are guided by industry methodologies and best practices such as the AWS Well-Architected Framework, NIST SP 800-53, and CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark to provide a thorough review of the security configurations within the scope of your AWS environment.

The average duration for this service varies between 3 to 5 person-days per cloud account, and depends on the complexity and scope of the assessment.

Deliverables

Blaze will provide your organization with a detailed report listing all the weaknesses and misconfiguration in your cloud environment.

The report includes the following:

• Executive summary where the issues, attack scenarios and business impact are explained in a non-technical language
• A detailed description of the vulnerabilities, demonstration of attack scenarios and suggestions for fixing the issues
• A remediation prioritization matrix, helping your team to prioritize fixes and decrease risks to the environment

Reports are delivered within 5 business days from the completion of the security assessment. Retesting is free if performed within 90 days from the delivery of the final report.

The reports can be used for vendor risk assessments and compliance audits that frequently require penetration testing, such as SOC 2 type II, CCPA, GDPR, PCI- DSS, HIPAA, ISO 27001 and others.

Contact us

Contact us to build a custom quote for your cloud security needs. Prices start at $6,000 per cloud account. We offer special discounts for early-stage startups and small businesses.

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