Tag: DevSecOps

Data is a crucial part of every business and is used for strategic decision making at all levels of an organization. To extract value from their data more quickly, Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers are building automated data pipelines—from data ingestion to transformation and analytics. As part of this process, my customers often ask how […]

In this blog post I show you how to deploy the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Solution for Security Hub Automated Response and Remediation. The first installment of this series was about how to create playbooks using Amazon CloudWatch Events, AWS Lambda functions, and AWS Security Hub custom actions that you can run manually based on […]

One of the security epics core to the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) is a focus on incident response and preparedness to address unauthorized activity. Multiple methods exist in Amazon Web Services (AWS) for automating classic incident response techniques, and the AWS Security Incident Response Guide outlines many of these methods. This post demonstrates […]

In this post, I’ll show you how to build a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline using AWS Developer Tools, as well as Aqua Security‘s open source container vulnerability scanner, Trivy. You’ll build two Docker images, one with vulnerabilities and one without, to learn the capabilities of Trivy and how to send all vulnerability […]

November 19, 2020: AWS has an updated solution for implementing the automated response and remediation across multiple accounts. Please refer to the updated post on How to deploy the AWS Solution for Security Hub Automated Response and Remediation. AWS Security Hub is a service that gives you aggregated visibility into your security and compliance status […]

In this blog post, I’ll show you how to integrate Prowler, an open-source security tool, with AWS Security Hub. Prowler provides dozens of security configuration checks related to services such as Amazon Redshift, Amazon ElasticCache, Amazon API Gateway and Amazon CloudFront. Integrating Prowler with Security Hub will provide posture information about resources not currently covered […]

Like the infrastructure your applications are built on, security infrastructure can be handled using infrastructure as code (IAC) and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD). In this post, I’ll show you how to build a CI/CD pipeline using AWS Developer Tools and HashiCorp’s Terraform platform as an IAC tool for AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) deployments. AWS […]

To keep pace with AWS innovation, many customers allow their application teams to experiment with AWS services in sandbox environments as they move toward production-ready architecture. These teams need timely access to various sets of AWS services and resources, which means they also need a mechanism to help ensure least privilege is granted. In other […]

I’ve conducted more security audits and reviews than I can comfortably count, and I’ve found that these reviews can be surprisingly open to interpretation (as much as they try not to be). Many companies use spreadsheets to explain and limit business risks, with an annual review to confirm the continued suitability of their controls. However, […]

In my previous posts in this series, I explained how to get started with the DevSecOps environment for HIPAA that is depicted in the following architecture diagram. In my second post in this series, I gave you guidance about how to set up AWS Service Catalog (#4 in the following diagram) to allow developers a […]