AWS re:Invent 2016

This session demonstrates 5 different security and compliance validation actions that you can perform using Amazon CloudWatch Events and AWS Config rules. This session focuses on the actual code for the various controls, actions, and remediation features, and how to use various AWS services and features to build them. The demos in this session include CIS Amazon Web Services Foundations validation; host-based AWS Config rules validation using AWS Lambda, SSH, and VPC-E; automatic creation and assigning of MFA tokens when new users are created; and automatic instance isolation based on SSH logons or VPC Flow Logs deny logs. This session focuses on code and live demos.

We are all embarking on a journey in the cloud that can be frightening at times, thrilling at others, but at all times filled with pitfalls and scary monsters that threaten the security of our infrastructure, applications, and data. The ultimate reward for all our hard work is to achieve a state of autonomous, self-healing security within our environment--one that can withstand any threats, whether internal or external. In this session, we walk you through the steps you need to be successful in your journey, just like Ellie Mae and many other enterprises and agencies. Your journey starts with security automation, and from there you will push outside of your security comfort zone, thanks to the gift of enhanced visibility and omniscience. Next we use CloudFormation Templates and custom signatures to move through our next security challenge with speed, and finally, we build auto-remediation into our security strategy with AWS Lambda workflows that enable the system to self-correct when misconfigurations occur. This fast-paced session will be filled code, best practices to help you in your quest, and even a few surprises about the ultimate destination of your journey.

Audit teams can consistently evaluate the security of an AWS account. Best practices greatly reduce complexity when managing risk and auditing the use of AWS for critical, audited, and regulated systems. You can integrate these security checks into your security and audit ecosystem. Center for Internet Security (CIS) benchmarks are incorporated into products developed by 20 security vendors, are referenced by PCI 3.1 and FedRAMP, and are included in the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) National Checklist Program (NCP). This session shows you how to implement foundational security measures in your AWS account. The prescribed best practices help make implementation of core AWS security measures more straightforward for security teams and AWS account owners.

AWS Key Management Service provides an easy and cost-effective way to secure your data in AWS. In this session, you learn about leveraging the latest features of the service to minimize risk for your data. We also review the recently released Import Key feature that gives you more control over the encryption process by letting you bring your own keys to AWS.

This session shows you how to reduce your blast radius by using multiple AWS accounts per region and service, which helps limit the impact of a critical event such as a security breach. Using multiple accounts helps you define boundaries and provides blast-radius isolation. Though managing multiple accounts can be difficult, we will present an upcoming AWS solution that will help automate the process for controlling cross- account access by managing roles across multiple accounts.

Cloud computing offers many advantages, such as the ability to scale your web applications or website on demand. But how do you scale your security and compliance infrastructure along with the business? Join this session to understand best practices for scaling your security resources as you grow from zero to millions of users. Specifically, you learn the following:

Microservice architectures provide numerous benefits but also have significant security challenges. This session presents how Nike uses layers of security to protect consumers and business. We show how network topology, network security primitives, identity and access management, traffic routing, secure network traffic, secrets management, and host-level security (antivirus, intrusion prevention system, intrusion detection system, file integrity monitoring) all combine to create a multilayer, end-to-end security solution for our microservice-based premium consumer experiences. Technologies to be covered include Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, access control lists, security groups, IAM roles and profiles, AWS KMS, NAT gateways, ELB load balancers, and Cerberus (our cloud-native secrets management solution).

Security of big data workloads in a hybrid IT environment often comes as an afterthought. This session discusses how enterprises can architect secure, big-data workloads on AWS. We cover the application of authentication, authorization, encryption, and additional security principles and mechanisms to workloads leveraging Amazon Elastic MapReduce and Amazon Redshift.

Attend this session to learn about security testing your applications in AWS. Effective security testing is challenging, but multiple features and services within AWS make security testing easier. This session covers common approaches to testing, including how we think about testing within AWS, how to apply AWS services to your test setup, remediating findings, and automation.

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack mitigation has traditionally been a challenge for those hosting on fixed infrastructure. In the cloud, users can build applications on elastic infrastructure that is capable of mitigating and absorbing DDoS attacks. What once required overprovisioning, additional infrastructure, or third-party services is now an inherent capability of many cloud-based applications. This session explains common DDoS attack vectors and how AWS customers with different use cases are addressing these challenges. As part of the session, we show you how to build applications that are resilient to DDoS and demonstrate how they work in practice.