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Security Elevated By Ahmed AbuGharbia

Security Elevated By Ahmed AbuGharbia

Security Elevated
By Ahmed AbuGharbia

AWS MENA Community

September 25, 2020
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  1. ◦ Passionate about security since high school ◦ 12 years

    in Security ◦ “Discovered” the cloud and fell in love! ◦ Managed Security Services, Sirius computer Solutions ◦ A Jiu Jitsu Practitioner ◦ Look me up on Linkedin ▪ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahmadabugharbieh/ ▪ Email: [email protected] Ahmed Abugharbia
  2. Traditional Security • Network Security • Vulnerability Management • Security

    Operation Centers • Red Team (Penetration Testers) • Applications Security • Governance and Compliance
  3. AWS Cloud • AWS Cloud is just different ◦ Agile

    ◦ Fast ◦ Comprehensive ( So many Services) ◦ Changes often ◦ New Terminology
  4. New concepts • EC2 Instances • S3 Buckets • Containers

    • Lambdas • API Gateways • And much more
  5. So what has changed? Less emphasis on network security •

    Smaller Attack surface • New “types” of infrastructure ◦ API Gateways, S3s, Lambda • Attackers’ focus is shifting
  6. So what has changed? More emphasis on Application Security •

    New attack vectors ◦ AWS Infra related ◦ Applications related
  7. So what has changed? Infrastructure as code • DevOps Integrated

    security (DevSecOps) • Faster Changes • Easier to Audit?
  8. Approaching Cloud Security Incident Handling • IH Plan ◦ Detect

    Incidents ◦ Respond to Incident • IH as Code
  9. Utilize Native Services • IAM • KMS • GuardDuty •

    Cognito • WAf & Shield • Security Hub
  10. Utilize Third party tools • Cloud Custodian ◦ https://cloudcustodian.io/ •

    Security Monkey ◦ https://github.com/Netflix/se curity_monkey • A Secure Cloud ◦ https://asecure.cloud/
  11. Summary • Everything is faster as code • Cloud Elevated

    Development • With that, Security was Elevated