External Security Services Round: Security Week at the San Francisco Loft

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Identity Round Robin Workshop – External Security Services
Jeff Levine
Security & Compliance Solutions Architect
AWS Solutions Architecture

Who Is This Jeff Levine Guy?
• The first computer I used was an HP 3000 Series II
• I have used keypunchers and card sorters.
• My first programming language was FORTRAN.
• I came to AWS in 2016.
• I help customers with real world security issues.
• I write blog posts and whitepapers.
• I like to scuba dive!

Agenda
• Overview of the Shared Responsibility Model
• External Security Services
• Access Delegation
• Lab overview
• Q & A

Security is a Shared Responsibility
AWS
Customers
provisions resources for you
(e.g. Amazon EC2, Amazon VPC, Amazon S3)
controls documented in compliance reports
available at either aws.amazon.com/compliance
or AWS Artifact depending on the service
use and configure the resources
after they are provisioned
based on their security requirements
Security
IN
the cloud
Security
OF
the cloud
(the line of demarcation varies based on the service)

Here are some examples of what this means:
• When you ask AWS to provision an Amazon EC2 instance:
• AWS provides an isolated instance and makes it available to you.
• You decide what happens in the instance.
• You control who can access the instance.
• When you ask AWS to provision an Amazon S3 bucket:
• AWS provides an isolated S3 bucket.
• You decide what goes into the bucket.
• You control who can access the bucket.

In short:
Your data is your data and you decide who can access it.

Can AWS help me at a deeper level with security?
Yes, with your consent.

External Security Services
AWS offers security services that
with your consent
can get closer to your resources to give
you more information.
Amazon GuardDuty – threat detection
Amazon Inspector – security assessment
Amazon Macie – data classification

How GuardDuty Works
Threat
intel,
ML/AI
Anomaly
Detection
Security Hub
or Lambda
or SIEM
Reconnaissance
Instance
Compromise
Account
Compromise
Amazon
GuardDuty
VPC flow logs
DNS Logs
CloudTrail
Events
HIGH
MEDIUM
LOW
FindingsData SourcesThreat Detection
Types

EC2 Host assessment
Host assessment rules packages
Using an Agent installed on EC2, Amazon Inspector can assess:
• Vulnerabilities in software (CVE)
• Host hardening guidelines (CIS Benchmark)
• AWS Security Best Practices.
Amazon Inspector

Amazon Macie - Data Classification & Visibility
Amazon Macie uses machine learning-based
classification of your Amazon S3 objects to provide
visibility into your S3 environment. Macie can identify:
• PII – Names, credit card numbers, social security
numbers, etc.
• programming languages to detect source code
• logging formats
• database backup formats
• credentials
• API key formats

Service Delegation
Using AWS IAM, you can delegate the
capabilities of External Security Services to
different classes of users. For example:
• Security Operators may need the ability
to display a finding associated with a
security service.
• Security Administrators may need
complete access to the capabilities of
a service.

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) enables you to manage access
to AWS External Security Services using principals, actions, and resources.
• An IAM principal is an actor.
• An IAM user principal is a permanent, single entity, usually a person.
An IAM role principal is assumed by a user or a service.
• In this workshop, we will deal with two roles:
• A Security Administrator role has full access to security services.
• A Security Operator role has read-only access to security services.
• You will switch between these roles and test your access.

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• An IAM action corresponds to an AWS API call associated with an AWS service,
for example: inspector:StartAssessmentRun
• Actions can be taken by:
• The AWS console
• The AWS CLI
• AWS services
• Applications
• Resources are AWS objects such as EC2 instances, S3 buckets, etc.

AWS IAM Policies
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies are combinations of
principals, actions, and resources.
• Identity policies are attached to principals and define what the principal can do.
• Resource policies are attached to resources and define who can do what to a
resource.
• Permission boundary policies are like a “fence” around identity policies.
• In this workshop, we will only deal with identity policies.

Policy types
• AWS-managed policies are supplied by AWS. You then attach these to
users, groups, and roles to grant access (e.g.
AmazonGuardDutyFullAccess).
• Customer-managed policies are created by you. You then attach these to
users, groups, and roles to grant access. You can create a set of
corporate policies and then re-use them. When you want to change the
policy, you can update it in one location.
• Inline policies are added directly to a principal. You should generally not
use these.

Policy types
• It is a best practice to places users into groups and use managed policies
(either AWS-managed or Customer-managed) whenever possible. You
can also attach policies to a role.
• AWS Config Rules can help you enforce group membership and also
check for the use of managed policies:
• iam-user-group-membership-check
• iam-user-no-policies-check

Permission Delegation with External Security Services
The External Security Services support delegation through either
managed or custom policies depending on the service. Each service
has a documentation page entitled “Access Control in Amazon
(servicename).”
• GuardDuty – Managed and custom policies
• Inspector – Managed and custom policies
• Macie – Managed (for full access) and custom (for read-only)

The AmazonGuardDutyReadOnlyAccess policy
{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"guardduty:Get*",
"guardduty:List*“
],
"Resource": "*“
}
]
}

Lab Overview
• In the lab, you will experiment with IAM access delegation for the
External Security Services as well as AWS CloudTrail.
• You will be given access to an AWS account.
• You will build an environment with CloudFormation that sets up
Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Macie, Amazon Inspector, and AWS
CloudTrail.

Lab Overview
• The environment creates two roles:
• A Security Administrator role with policies that grant full
access to security services.
• A Security Operator role.
• Initially, the policies are similar to those of the Security
Administrator role.
• You will change the policies to provide read-only access
to security services.

Lab Overview
• You will learn how to switch between roles to change your
effective access.
• Role switching enforces the principle of least privilege. Principles
should have the fewest privileges needed to perform their duties.
• For example, suppose Maria is a Security Administrator with
many responsibilities. When she needs elevated privileges, she
temporarily assumes the Security Administrator role in AWS and
relinquishes the role when she is performing other duties.
• Role switching in AWS is similar to sudo in Linux.

Lab Overview
• Make sure you use only the us-west-2 (Oregon) region.
• The lab has two phases:
• In the Build Phase, you will build the environment and
configure the Security Operator role. You will do some
testing then turn over your credentials to another team who
will do the verification.
• In the Verify Phase, you will receive someone else’s
credentials and then perform verification to ensure they did
the lab properly.

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