AWS for Software Companies Podcast

Ep103: Supercharging Security with GenAI – Best Practice Sharing with Sonrai Security


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Jeff Moncrief discusses Sonrai Security's Cloud Permissions Firewall, and the best practices for using AI-powered summaries and orchestration to ensure security at all points.

Topics Include:

  • Jeff Moncrief introduces Sonrai Security and Cloud Permissions Firewall
  • Focus on achieving least privilege access in AWS quickly
  • Lightweight orchestration layer secures IAM from inside out
  • Eliminates need to write hundreds of individual policies
  • Customers struggle with identity risk in CNAP/CSPM tools
  • Generative AI adoption driving top security use cases
  • Bedrock and AI agents mentioned daily by customers
  • Product managers should consider underlying platform security risks
  • AI models have control over infrastructure they run on
  • Identity is fundamental infrastructure enabling AWS AI models
  • Sonrai uses Bedrock capability inside Cloud Permissions Firewall
  • Just-in-time access provides temporary, time-boxed AWS access
  • Bedrock generates session summaries from audit logs automatically
  • Plain English insights show what happened during sessions
  • Session summaries improve audit compliance and incident response
  • Customer with 1000 accounts manually deployed service controls
  • Friday afternoon deployment caused very bad weekend disaster
  • Policy inheritance issues broke child accounts and OUs
  • Planning and orchestration essential for scaling AI security
  • Sonrai platform built 100% cloud-native on AWS
  • Coordinates service control policies and resource control policies
  • Just-in-time access relies on IAM Identity Center
  • Participates in ISV Accelerate and AWS Marketplace
  • Security best practices start with identity as foundation
  • "Hackers don't hack, they just log in" philosophy
  • Eliminate standing privileges with just-in-time access patterns
  • Restrict AI services by user, location, and account
  • Review over-permissioned or inactive third-party vendor access
  • Actionable insights through useful logging and AI summarization
  • Future focus on protecting new services and permissions


Participants:

  • Jeff Moncrief – Field CTO & Director of Sales Engineering, Sonrai Security


Links:

  • Website – Sonraisecurity.com
  • AWS Marketplace – Sonrai Security


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