Previously, I mentioned that the re:Invent 2015 Security & Compliance track sessions had been announced, and I also discussed the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) sessions that will be offered as part of the Security & Compliance track.
Today, I will highlight the remainder of the sessions that will be presented as part of the Security & Compliance track. If you are going to re:Invent 2015, you can add these sessions to your schedule now. If you won’t be attending re:Invent in person this year, keep in mind that all sessions will be available on YouTube (video) and SlideShare (slide decks) after the conference.
Auditing
SEC314: Full Configuration Visibility and Control with AWS Config
With AWS Config, you can discover what is being used on AWS, understand how resources are configured and how their configurations changed over time—all without disrupting end-user productivity on AWS. You can use this visibility to assess continuous compliance with best practices, and integrate with IT service management, configuration management, and other ITIL tools. In this session, AWS Senior Product Manager Prashant Prahlad will discuss:
- Mechanisms to aggregate this deep visibility to gain insights into your overall security and operational posture.
- Ways to leverage notifications from the service to stay informed, trigger workflows, or graph your infrastructure.
- Integrating AWS Config with ticketing and workflow tools to help you maintain compliance with internal practices or industry guidelines.
- Aggregating this data with other configuration management tools to move toward a single source of truth solution for configuration management.
This session is best suited for administrators and developers with a focus on audit, security, and compliance.
SEC318: AWS CloudTrail Deep Dive
Ever wondered how can you find out which user made a particular API call, when the call was made, and which resources were acted upon? In this session, you will learn from AWS Senior Product Manager Sivakanth Mundru how to turn on AWS CloudTrail for hundreds of AWS accounts in all AWS regions to ensure you have full visibility into API activity in all your AWS accounts. We will demonstrate how to use CloudTrail Lookup in the AWS Management Console to troubleshoot operational and security issues and how to use the AWS CLI or SDKs to integrate your applications with CloudTrail.
We will also demonstrate how you can monitor for specific API activity by using Amazon CloudWatch and receive email notifications, when such activity occurs. Using CloudTrail Lookup and CloudWatch Alarms, you can take immediate action to quickly remediate any security or operational issues. We will also share best practices and ready-to-use scripts, and dive deep into new features that help you configure additional layers of security for CloudTrail log files.
SEC403: Timely Security Alerts and Analytics: Diving into AWS CloudTrail Events by Using Apache Spark on Amazon EMR
Do you want to analyze AWS CloudTrail events within minutes of them arriving in your Amazon S3 bucket? Would you like to learn how to run expressive queries over your CloudTrail logs? AWS Senior Security Engineer Will Kruse will demonstrate Apache Spark and Apache Spark Streaming as two tools to analyze recent and historical security logs for your accounts. To do so, we will use Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR), your logs stored in S3, and Amazon SNS to generate alerts. With these tools at your fingertips, you will be the first to know about security events that require your attention, and you will be able to quickly identify and evaluate the relevant security log entries.
DDoS
SEC306: Defending Against DDoS Attacks
In this session, AWS Operations Manager Jeff Lyon and AWS Software Development Manager Andrew Kiggins will address the current threat landscape, present DDoS attacks that we have seen on AWS, and discuss the methods and technologies we use to protect AWS services. You will leave this session with a better understanding of:
- DDoS attacks on AWS as well as the actual threats and volumes that we typically see.
- What AWS does to protect our services from these attacks.
- How this all relates to the AWS Shared Responsibility Model.
Incident Response
SEC308: Wrangling Security Events in the Cloud
Have you prepared your AWS environment for detecting and managing security-related events? Do you have all the incident response training and tools you need to rapidly respond to, recover from, and determine the root cause of security events in the cloud? Even if you have a team of incident response rock stars with an arsenal of automated data acquisition and computer forensics capabilities, there is likely a thing or two you will learn from several step-by-step demonstrations of wrangling various potential security events within an AWS environment, from detection to response to recovery to investigating root cause. At a minimum, show up to find out who to call and what to expect when you need assistance with applying your existing, already awesome incident response runbook to your AWS environment. Presenters are AWS Principal Security Engineer Don “Beetle” Bailey and AWS Senior Security Consultant Josh Du Lac.
SEC316: Harden Your Architecture with Security Incident Response Simulations (SIRS)
Using Security Incident Response Simulations (SIRS—also commonly called IR Game Days) regularly keeps your first responders in practice and ready to engage in real events. SIRS help you identify and close security gaps in your platform, and application layers then validate your ability to respond. In this session, AWS Senior Technical Program Manager Jonathan Miller and AWS Global Security Architect Armando Leite will share a straightforward method for conducting SIRS. Then AWS enterprise customers will take the stage to share their experience running joint SIRS with AWS on their AWS architectures. Learn about detection, containment, data preservation, security controls, and more.
Key Management
SEC301: Strategies for Protecting Data Using Encryption in AWS
Protecting sensitive data in the cloud typically requires encryption. Managing the keys used for encryption can be challenging as your sensitive data passes between services and applications. AWS offers several options for using encryption and managing keys to help simplify the protection of your data at rest. In this session, AWS Principal Product Manager Ken Beer and Adobe Systems Principal Scientist Frank Wiebe will help you understand which features are available and how to use them, with emphasis on AWS Key Management Service and AWS CloudHSM. Adobe Systems Incorporated will present their experience using AWS encryption services to solve data security needs.
SEC401: Encryption Key Storage with AWS KMS at Okta
One of the biggest challenges in writing code that manages encrypted data is developing a secure model for obtaining keys and rotating them when an administrator leaves. AWS Key Management Service (KMS) changes the equation by offering key management as a service, enabling a number of security improvements over conventional key storage methods. Okta Senior Software Architect Jon Todd will show how Okta uses the KMS API to secure a multi-region system serving thousands of customers. This talk is oriented toward developers looking to secure their applications and simplify key management.
Overall Security
SEC201: AWS Security State of the Union
Security must be at the forefront for any online business. At AWS, security is priority number one. AWS Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer Stephen Schmidt will share his insights into cloud security and how AWS meets customers' demanding security and compliance requirements—and in many cases helps them improve their security posture. Stephen, with his background with the FBI and his work with AWS customers in the government, space exploration, research, and financial services organizations, will share an industry perspective that's unique and invaluable for today's IT decision makers.
SEC202: If You Build It, They Will Come: Best Practices for Securely Leveraging the Cloud
Cloud adoption is driving digital business growth and enabling companies to shift to processes and practices that make innovation continual. As with any paradigm shift, cloud computing requires different rules and a different way of thinking. This presentation will highlight best practices to build and secure scalable systems in the cloud and capitalize on the cloud with confidence and clarity.
In this session, Sumo Logic VP of Security/CISO Joan Pepin will cover:
- Key market drivers and advantages for leveraging cloud architectures.
- Foundational design principles to guide strategy for securely leveraging the cloud.
- The “Defense in Depth” approach to building secure services in the cloud, whether it’s private, public, or hybrid.
- Real-world customer insights from organizations who have successfully adopted the "Defense in Depth" approach.
Session sponsored by Sumo Logic.
SEC203: Journey to Securing Time Inc's Move to the Cloud
Learn how Time Inc. met security requirements as they transitioned from their data centers to the AWS cloud. Colin Bodell, CTO from Time Inc. will start off this session by presenting Time’s objective to move away from on-premise and co-location data centers to AWS and the cost savings that has been realized with this transition. Chris Nicodemo from Time Inc. and Derek Uzzle from Alert Logic will then share lessons learned in the journey to secure dozens of high volume media websites during the migration, and how it has enhanced overall security flexibility and scalability. They will also provide a deep dive on the solutions Time has leveraged for their enterprise security best practices, and show you how they were able to execute their security strategy.
Who should attend: InfoSec and IT management. Session sponsored by Alert Logic.
SEC303: Architecting for End-to-End Security in the Enterprise
This session will tell the story of how security-minded enterprises provide end-to-end protection of their sensitive data in AWS. Learn about the enterprise security architecture decisions made by Fortune 500 organizations during actual sensitive workload deployments as told by the AWS professional service security, risk, and compliance team members who lived them. In this technical walkthrough, AWS Principal Consultant Hart Rossman and AWS Principal Security Solutions Architect Bill Shinn will share lessons learned from the development of enterprise security strategy, security use-case development, end-to-end security architecture and service composition, security configuration decisions, and the creation of AWS security operations playbooks to support the architecture.
SEC321: AWS for the Enterprise—Implementing Policy, Governance, and Security for Enterprise Workloads
CSC Director of Global Cloud Portfolio Kyle Falkenhagen will demonstrate enterprise policy, governance, and security products to deploy and manage enterprise and industry applications AWS. CSC will demonstrate automated provisioning and management of big data platforms and industry specific enterprise applications with automatically provisioned secure network connectivity from the datacenter to AWS over layer 2 routed AT&T Netbond (provides AWS DirectConnect access) connection. CSC will also demonstrate how applications blueprinted on CSC's Agility Platform can be re-hosted on AWS in minutes or re-instantiated across multiple AWS regions. CSC will also demonstrate how CSC can provide agile and consumption-based endpoint security for workloads in any cloud or virtual infrastructure, providing enterprise management and 24x7 monitoring of workload compliance, vulnerabilities, and potential threats.
Session sponsored by CSC.
SEC402: Enterprise Cloud Security via DevSecOps 2.0
Running enterprise workloads with sensitive data in AWS is hard and requires an in-depth understanding about software-defined security risks. At re:Invent 2014, Intuit and AWS presented "Enterprise Cloud Security via DevSecOps" to help the community understand how to embrace AWS features and a software-defined security model. Since then, we've learned quite a bit more about running sensitive workloads in AWS.
We've evaluated new security features, worked with vendors, and generally explored how to develop security-as-code skills. Come join Intuit DevSecOps Leader Shannon Lietz and AWS Senior Security Consultant Matt Bretan to learn about second-year lessons and see how DevSecOps is evolving. We've built skills in security engineering, compliance operations, security science, and security operations to secure AWS-hosted applications. We will share stories and insights about DevSecOps experiments, and show you how to crawl, walk, and then run into the world of DevSecOps.
Security Architecture
SEC205: Learn How to Hackproof Your Cloud Using Native AWS Tools
The cloud requires us to rethink much of what we do to secure our applications. The idea of physical security morphs as infrastructure becomes virtualized by AWS APIs. In a new world of ephemeral, autoscaling infrastructure, you need to adapt your security architecture to meet both compliance and security threats. And AWS provides powerful tools that enable users to confidently overcome these challenges.
In this session, CloudCheckr Founder and CTO Aaron Newman will discuss leveraging native AWS tools as he covers topics including:
- Minimizing attack vectors and surface area.
- Conducting perimeter assessments of your virtual private clouds (VPCs).
- Identifying internal vs. external threats.
- Monitoring threats.
- Reevaluating intrusion detection, activity monitoring, and vulnerability assessment in AWS.
Session sponsored by CloudCheckr.
Enjoy re:Invent!
- Craig
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