AWS
Our AWS Security services help you proactively identify and remediate vulnerabilities in your Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment, ensuring robust protection against cyber threats and compliance with industry standards.
The Importance of AWS Security
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a leading cloud service provider, offering a wide range of services that support various business operations. However, the complexity and scalability of AWS environments introduce unique security challenges. Ensuring the security of your AWS infrastructure is essential to protect sensitive data, maintain business continuity, and meet regulatory requirements.
Our Approach
At Pretera, we systematically identify vulnerabilities within AWS environments through a comprehensive approach. We begin by assessing the AWS architecture and understanding the various services and configurations in use to tailor our testing methodology effectively. Our process includes evaluating Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies, security groups, and resource configurations to identify potential weaknesses.
Next, we conduct reconnaissance to gather information about the AWS infrastructure, identifying exposed services and potential attack vectors. We then perform targeted penetration testing to simulate real-world attacks specific to AWS, assessing the effectiveness of security measures and uncovering vulnerabilities in data protection, network configurations, and application security.
Finally, we provide detailed analysis and actionable recommendations for remediation, ensuring clients understand the findings and can enhance their security posture effectively within their AWS environment. Our approach helps organizations leverage the cloud securely while maintaining compliance and resilience against evolving threats.
Key Features of Our AWS Security Services
- Identity and Access Management (IAM): Reviewing IAM policies and configurations to ensure secure access control.
- User and Role Management: Ensuring that IAM roles and policies follow the principle of least privilege.
- Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA): Implementing and assessing MFA to enhance security for critical accounts.
- Network Security: Assessing the security of your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), security groups, and network ACLs to prevent unauthorized access.
- VPC Configuration: Ensuring that VPCs are configured securely to isolate and protect resources.
- Security Groups and ACLs: Reviewing security group and ACL configurations to minimize exposure to threats.
- Data Security: Ensuring that data stored in AWS services like S3, RDS, and DynamoDB is secure.
- Encryption: Verifying that data is encrypted at rest and in transit.
- Backup and Recovery: Ensuring that data backup and recovery processes are secure and reliable.
- Threat Detection and Response: Implementing and optimizing threat detection features to defend against cyber attacks.
- AWS Config and CloudTrail: Monitoring changes and access to AWS resources to detect suspicious activity.
- GuardDuty and Security Hub: Utilizing AWS security services to identify and respond to threats.
- Compliance and Best Practices: Ensuring that your AWS environment meets industry standards and regulatory requirements.
- Regulatory Compliance: Assessing your AWS setup for compliance with regulations such as GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI DSS.
- Security Best Practices: Implementing AWS security best practices to enhance your overall security posture.
Detailed Reporting and Remediation Guidance
Our detailed penetration testing report is written in understandable terms and provides clear and actionable information about identified vulnerabilities, their potential impact, and recommended remediation steps. This allows your team to quickly understand and start addressing issues immediately.
- Executive Summary: High-level overview of the findings aimed for management and delivered shortly after the assessment.
- Technical Details: In-depth reporting with details at every step of our penetration testing services, helping your technical teams replicate the vectors easily and remediate swiftly.
- Report Readout: We provide report read out for your management, accelerating the understanding of the report and clarifying any unclarities on the spot.
- Remediation Guidance: Post-pentest step-by-step support and guidance on how to fix identified vulnerabilities and accelerate the remediation
- Free Retesting: Following the remediation of identified vulnerabilities, we offer a free retesting of all the vulnerabilities to ensure everything has been remediated.
Why Work With Us
Our team of experienced security professionals brings deep knowledge and experience of application security and the latest threat landscapes. We operate as your internal team, seeking to always understand the challenges you face and ensure you solve them, always. Work with us and experience open and transparent communication throughout the testing process providing real-time updates and insights. This collaborative approach ensures that you are always informed and can prioritize remediation efforts.
KeyPoints
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AWS Vulnerability Identification
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Shared Responsibility Model
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High-Risk Asset Focus
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Comprehensive Cloud Coverage
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Cloud-Specific Offensive Security
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Proactive Security Monitoring
Related Certifications
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Offensive Security Certified Expert
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Offensive Security Web Expert
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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
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Certified Ethical Hacker
Our Approach
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We Assess
After an initial call with the client, Pretera will start working on scoping and based on the required amount of the time required to complete the work, the client will receive a detailed offer.
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We Prevent
During the assessment phase, Pretera will provide its services for which the client has paid for, and it could range from a few days assessment to a several weeks assessment.
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We Secure
Upon completion of the assessment, Pretera will deliver a detailed report of findings to the client and will offer a walk-through presentation if asked by the client.