AWS re:Invent 2016

Encryption is a favorite of security and compliance professionals everywhere. Many compliance frameworks actually

Historically, relationships between developers and security teams have been challenging. Security teams sometimes see developers as careless and ignorant of risk, while developers might see security teams as dogmatic barriers to productivity. Can technologies and approaches such as the cloud, APIs, and automation lead to happier developers and more secure systems? Netflix has had success pursuing this approach, by leaning into the fundamental cloud concept of self-service, the Netflix cultural value of transparency in decision making, and the engineering efficiency principle of facilitating a “paved road.”

CloudCheckr Co-Founders Aaron Newman and Aaron Klein will highlight effective strategies and tools that AWS users can employ to improve their security posture. Specific emphasis will be placed upon leveraging native AWS services and the talk will include concrete steps that users can begin employing immediately. Session sponsored by CloudCheckr.

Ensuring security and compliance across a globally distributed, large-scale AWS deployment requires a scalable process and a comprehensive set of technologies. This session will deep-dive into the AWS native monitoring and security services and some Splunk technologies leveraged globally to perform security monitoring across a large number of AWS accounts. You will learn about the collection plumbing including components of S3, Kinesis, CloudWatch, SNS, Dynamo DB and Lambda, as well as the tooling and processes used at Adobe to deliver scalable monitoring without managing an unwieldy number of API keys and input stanzas. Session sponsored by Splunk.

AWS serverless architecture components such as Amazon S3, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, CloudWatch Logs, DynamoDB, Amazon Kinesis, and Lambda can be tightly constrained in their operation. However, it may still be possible to use some of them to propagate payloads that could be used to exploit vulnerabilities in some consuming endpoints or user-generated code. This session explores techniques for enhancing the security of these services, from assessing and tightening permissions in IAM to integrating tools and mechanisms for inline and out-of-band payload analysis that are more typically applied to traditional server-based architectures.

Johnson & Johnson is in the process of doing a proof of concept to rewrite the compliance framework that they presented at re:Invent 2014. This framework leverages the newest AWS services and abandons the need for continual describes and master rules servers. Instead, Johnson & Johnson plans to use a distributed, event-based architecture that not only reduces costs but also assigns costs to the appropriate projects rather than central IT.

This session tells how our most mature, security-minded Fortune 500 customers adopt AWS while improving end-to-end protection of their sensitive data. Learn about the enterprise security architecture decisions made during actual sensitive workload deployments as told by the AWS professional services and the solution architecture team members who lived them. In this very prescriptive, technical walkthrough, we share lessons learned from the development of enterprise security strategy, security use-case development, security configuration decisions, and the creation of AWS security operations playbooks to support customer architectures.

Professional services has completed five deep PCI engagements with enterprise customers over the last year. Common patterns were identified and codified in various artifacts. This session introduces the patterns that help customers address PCI requirements in a standard manner that also meets AWS best practices. Hear customers speak about their side of the journey and the solutions that they used to deploy a PCI compliance workload.

GxP is an acronym that refers to the regulations and guidelines applicable to life sciences organizations that make food and medical products such as drugs, medical devices, and medical software applications. The overall intent of GxP requirements is to ensure that food and medical products are safe for consumers and to ensure the integrity of data used to make product-related safety decisions.

The term GxP encompasses a broad range of compliance-related activities such as Good Laboratory Practices (GLP), Good Clinical Practices (GCP), Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), and others, each of which has product-specific requirements that life sciences organizations must implement based on the 1) type of products they make and 2) country in which their products are sold. When life sciences organizations use computerized systems to perform certain GxP activities, they must ensure that the computerized GxP system is developed, validated, and operated appropriately for the intended use of the system.

For this session, co-presented with Merck, services such as Amazon EC2, Amazon CloudWatch Logs, AWS CloudTrail, AWS CodeCommit, Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), and AWS CodePipeline will be discussed with an emphasis on implementing GxP-compliant systems in the AWS Cloud.

This session enables security operators to automate governance and implement use cases addressed by AWS services such as AWS CloudTrail, AWS Config Rules, Amazon CloudWatch Events, and Trusted Advisor. Based on the nature of vulnerabilities, internal processes, compliance regimes, and other priorities, this session discusses the service to use when. We also show how to detect, report, and fix vulnerabilities, or gain more information about attackers. We dive deep into new features and capabilities of relevant services and use an example from an AWS customer, Siemens AG, about how to best automate governance and scale. A prerequisite for this session is knowledge of security and basic software development using Java, Python, or Node.