Immediate response to security incidents with AWS Security Incident Response.
Security is a priority for any cloud infrastructure, and continually developing capabilities in this area is extremely important. That’s why a new AWS Security Incident Response service has been created to facilitate responding to various incidents, including account takeovers or data breaches. Continuously raising standards in this area is also a key component of the LCloud Support and Monitoring service, which provides effective support in incident detection, analysis and response, ensuring even greater protection of cloud environments.
Security incidents are becoming increasingly complex, leaving Security teams to grapple with an overabundance of alerts, after all, which makes prioritization difficult and reduces efficiency. Hardly any manual investigation of findings leads to resource overload, increasing the risk of critical alerts being overlooked or making a given security incident response inadequate. What’s more, proper coordination of activities, entitlement management and documentation further complicate the process. This makes it necessary to implement appropriate improvements and new solutions.
AWS Security Incident Response will help detect incidents
Security Incident Response, a special service that automates the selection and investigation of Security Layer findings, may be the answer to growing security needs. The aim of the new feature is to provide comprehensive support at every stage of incident response – from preparation, to incident detection, analysis, and service recovery. Importantly, the analyzed findings can come from Amazon GuardDuty, as well as from third-party services integrated with AWS Security Hub. In addition, the new service provides 24/7 access to security experts from the AWS Customer Incident Response Team (CIRT).
The AWS Security Incident Response service is already available in many regions, including the US East (North Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon) or Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Stockholm). Importantly, AWS SIR is part of AWS Organizations, making it easy to make the service available to all supported AWS accounts.
Key features of the Security Incident Response service
AWS Security Incident Response is designed to support organizations in effective and comprehensive security incident planning, as well as provide access to professional assistance from cyber security experts. How does it work in practice? The key to success lies in a set of specific features and functionalities, which are worth discussing here.
Security Incident Response acts as an overarching tool that integrates a variety of threat detection systems. As a result, the new service enables incident analysis from both GuardDuty and third-party solutions via AWS Security Hub. Importantly, the service offers ready-to-use default configurations for effective notification and access management. In addition, the functionality can be extended to integrate with third-party vendors, making security incident response and incident analysis even more comprehensive. Also worth mentioning are the built-in alert muting mechanisms, which allow you to focus on the most critical incidents. Don’t forget about a special dashboard containing individual metrics to facilitate monitoring and analysis – we’re talking about such data as MTTR metrics indicating the average time to repair/restore the system after a failure, the number of active and closed cases in a specified time, or the number of verified incidents.
A final feature is the ability to get 24/7 support from security specialists at AWS CIRT. Customers also have the option of handling incidents themselves or working with third-party security providers. This will allow any major incident to be dealt with, reducing the possibility of overlooking or slowing down due to lack of resources.
Summary
AWS Security Incident Response is a comprehensive tool that supports organizations in responding to security incidents quickly and effectively. The service integrates data from tools such as Amazon GuardDuty and AWS Security Hub, providing ready-made configurations, prioritization mechanisms and even 24/7 access to AWS CIRT specialists, with whom incident analysis is much more effective. AWS SIR is the answer to the growing demand for services that support maintaining a high level of security in the cloud space.
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