Scale safely and efficiently.
Securing cloud environments is a top priority for organizations worldwide. With AWS® cloud security, you benefit from a data center and network architecture built to meet the requirements of even the most security-sensitive organizations.
With the strong features in AWS cloud security, your organization is empowered to scale and innovate while maintaining a secure cloud environment at all times. AWS gives your organization more control, increased privacy and lower costs and enables you to:
- Store data safely.
- Meet requirements.
- Save money.
- Scale quickly.
Compliance features and benefits
AWS compliance ties together governance-focused, audit-friendly services with applicable security compliance regulations and audit standards — empowering any organization to operate within an AWS security control environment.
The AWS shared responsibility model gives users the power to decide which security features to implement in order to protect their content, platforms, applications, systems and networks, exactly as they would in an on-site data center.
Detection and response
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks threaten to slow down or even crash unprotected networks. AWS technology is built from the ground up to guard against DDoS attacks. AWS services can also be combined to create an in-depth defense strategy to thwart potential attacks.
AWS gives you the opportunity to add an extra layer of security to your data in the cloud with tools including:
- Data encryption capabilities
- AWS Key Management Service
- AWS CloudHSM
Inventory and configuration
AWS offers a range of tools to help your organization move fast, while ensuring your cloud resources comply with organizational standards and best practices. Explore tools for security assessment, inventory and configuration management, template management, analytics and more.
Take your cloud security into your own hands with tools from AWS that let you identify, track and manage your AWS resources over time and create standard, preconfigured environments and templates.
AWS provides advanced and secure applications, including:
- Amazon Inspector
- AWS Config
- AWS CloudFormation
Monitoring, identity & access control
AWS provides advanced visibility tools to help mitigate issues before they become threats. With AWS CloudTrail and Amazon CloudWatch, you gain deep visibility into API calls, along with log aggregation and compliance reporting.
Define individual user accounts and permissions while including multifactor authentication for privileged accounts. And, integrate and federate with corporate directories to reduce administrative overhead — and improve the end-user experience.
Security guidance and support
As you progress in your cloud migration, AWS offers support services to help your organization adopt best practices. AWS support ensures your cloud environment is secure, efficient, highly available and always cost-effective.
With online tools including AWS Trusted Advisor and a technical account manager, you gain a support system that suggests ways to save money, improve performance and close any security gaps — and a single point of contact providing technical expertise, proactive support and advocacy.
Insight for AWS Security
As a top AWS partner, Insight is proud to hold the AWS Security Competency in recognition of our deep level of security expertise. Achieving the AWS Security Competency validates Insight’s role as a strategic AWS partner delivering end-to-end network and security solutions to help clients drive security within their AWS environments.
Client success story
National rental chain establishes centralized governance, security and compliance on AWS
The client had limited centralized routing control and traffic visibility, as well as a complex user sign-in experience, and wanted a solution that would centralize governance, security and compliance in a consistent manner. To address these challenges, Insight's team worked with the client to deliver an automated cloud foundation aligned to client requirements, use cases and AWS best practices with AWS Control Tower.
Insight also optimized the client’s Identity and Verification (IDV) processes by integrating their external Identity Provider (IdP) with AWS IAM Identity Center, using SAML and the SCIM v2.0 protocol, to create a new, simplified SSO experience for AWS users, and to centralize control for administrators across multiple AWS accounts. The integration improved the client’s Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) by implementing automatic provisioning and the deprovisioning of users between their IdP and IAM Identity Center.
Client
Furniture and appliance rental company with 18,000 employees and 3,500 locations
Challenge
The client needed to establish a new, secure AWS cloud foundation in preparation for large-scale data center migration to AWS and VMC on AWS.
Outcomes
- Automatic user provisioning via synchronization between client’s IdP and AWS IAM Identity Center
- Optimized client’s IDV and IGA processes
- Automated ongoing AWS policy management
- Centralized hub-and-spoke network architecture
- Automated guardrails for centralized compliance
- Centralized traffic inspection with Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFWs)
- Improved AWS security posture
- Ensured client operational readiness