Using AWS Lambda as a Security Team (SEC322-R1) - AWS re:Invent 2018

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Using AWS Lambda as a
Security Team
Brittany Doncaster
Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services
S E C 3 2 2
Sydney Sweeney
Cloud Engineer
Dow Jones
Andrew Baird
Principal Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services

Agenda
Introduction to Lambda
Event Driven
Multi-Account
Compliance
Service-oriented

No Humans Allowed!

Security Engineering

Benefits of AWS Lambda
Cost-effective and
efficient
No infrastructure to
manage
Pay only for what you use
Bring your own
code
Productivity-focused compute service to build powerful, dynamic, modular applications
in the cloud
Run code in standard
languages
Focus on business logic
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AWS Lambda: Run Code in Response to Events
FUNCTION SERVICES (ANYTHING)
Changes in
data state
Requests to
endpoints
Changes in
resource state
Node
Python
Java
C#
EVENT SOURCE

Amazon
CloudWatch
Amazon CloudWatch is a
monitoring service for
AWS Cloud resources,
applications you run on
AWS and on-premises.
Monitor EC2Spot Trends
Take automated
action
Troubleshoot
Metrics on
Logs
Centralize
monitoring
Operational
Status

CloudWatch Components and Integrations
Amazon
CloudWatch event
(time-based)
event
(event-based)
email
notification
Amazon
SNS
Metric
Custom Metrics..
SVR1-CPU-%
Hrs/Week-Cont
SVR2-CPU-%
Metric Math
Amazon
CloudWatch
Alarms
Logs
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Basic Queries
FILTER
ON LOGS
Subscriptions
Amazon
Kinesis
AWS
Lambda
Amazon
Elasticsearch
Service
ISV
Integration
corporate data center
agent
On Call ISV
Solutions
AWS
Lambda
AWS
Lambda

Event Driven - Logs
Amazon
CloudWatch
Logs
AWS
CloudTrail
Lambda
function
AWS
CloudTrail
Track user activity
and API usage

Event Driven - Logs
Amazon
CloudWatch
Logs
AWS
CloudTrail
Lambda
function
VPC Flow Logs
VPC Flow
Logs
IP traffic to/from
network interfaces
in your VPC

Example Use Cases - Logs
• Alerting
• Detection

Event Driven - Metrics
Amazon
CloudWatch
Alarms
Lambda
function
AWS WAF
AWS WAF
Web application firewall to
help detect and block
malicious web requests
targeted at your web
applications
Amazon
SNS

Event Driven - Metrics
Amazon
CloudWatch
Alarms
AWS WAF
AWS Shield
AWS Shield Advanced
Managed service providing DDoS
protection against and visibility
into large, sophisticated attacks,
plus access to DDoS experts
Lambda
function
Amazon
SNS

Example Use Cases - Metrics

Example Use Cases - Metrics
• Alerting
• Remediation
• 3rd Party Integrations

Event Driven - Events
Amazon
CloudWatch
Events
Lambda
function
Amazon Macie
Machine learning−powered
security service to discover,
classify, & protect sensitive data

Amazon
CloudWatch
Events
Lambda
function
Amazon
GuardDuty
Amazon
GuardDuty
Intelligent threat detection
and continuous monitoring
to protect your AWS
accounts and workloads

Amazon
CloudWatch
Events
Lambda
function
Amazon
GuardDuty
Amazon CloudWatch
Events
Delivers a near-real-time stream
of system events that describe
changes in AWS resources

Example Use Cases
• Alerting
• Remediation
• Forensics
• Security Automation

If One Lambda Just Won’t Do…
AWS Step Functions
…makes it easy to coordinate
multiple Lambda
functions and visualize the
execution

Hands Off!
What if the problem is on an EC2 instance?
• Asynchronously execute commands
• No need to SSH/RDP
• Commands and output logged
Lambda
function
EC2 Systems Manager - Run
Command
EC2 instances

Event Driven Security Architectures
Amazon
CloudWatch
AWS
CloudTrail
Lambda
function
AWS
APIs
AWS WAF
AWS Shield
Detection
Alerting
Remediation
Countermeasures
Forensics
Security Automation
Team
collaboration
(Slack, etc.)
Amazon
GuardDuty
VPC Flow Logs

Transform News Corp AWS environments by
deploying baseline security controls and support
infrastructure.
Redwood: Serverless multi-account security
• Automated
• Centralized
• Low risk
• Easy to use
• Flexible
• Scalable

Redwood
AWS CodeBuild Central S3
Central Cloud Services
Redwood: organization-wide security control deployment
DynamoDB
• Process locking
• Deployment tracking
• Resource configurations
• CloudTrail
• Compute host
CloudWatch
Enforcement
CloudTrailGuardDuty
Organization member account

Lambda Makes Redwood Dynamic
Automated entry points
• Update and patch
• Reactive enforcement
• New account deployment
CodeBuild
Central S3
Redwood
DynamoDB
CloudWatch
Enforcement
CloudTrailAWS
GuardDuty

Lambda for scaling across our organization
CodeBuild Central S3
Redwood
DynamoDB
Organizations
Lambda
CloudWatch
Enforcement
CloudTrailGuardDuty
Update and Patch

Detection and deployment mechanism
CodeBuild Central S3
Redwood
DynamoDB
CloudWatch
Enforcement
CloudTrailGuardDuty
Reactive enforcement
CloudWatch rule
• Detect a change in a resource
Lambda
• Coordinate a Redwood deployment

Lambda
CloudWatch
Rule
CloudTrailOrganizations
Lambda for new account deployment
Organization Root Account
Event
Redwood Security Deployment
{
"Type": "AWS::Events::Rule",
"Properties": {
"Description": "Detect new AWS accounts in the
organization.",
"EventPattern": {
"source": "aws.organizations”,
"detail-type": "AWS Service Event via CloudTrail”
},
…
}
}Central Cloud Services

Lambda
CloudWatch
Rule
CloudTrailOrganizations
CodeBuild
Central S3
Organization Root Account Central Cloud Services
Event
Lambda
Redwood
Lambda for security deployment on new accounts
CloudWatch
Enforcement
CloudTrailGuardDuty

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Multi-Account Patterns – Pattern 1 (Extend)
• Create IAM roles
• Extend Event-based Actions into Application Accounts
Lambda
function

CloudWatch Events Bus

CloudWatch Events Bus
Lambda functions
(Security Account)
Amazon
CloudWatch
(Security Account)
Actions
STS.AssumeRole
Notify,
Store,
Integrate,
Etc.

Multi-Account Patterns – Pattern 2 (Centralize)
• Enable and centralize delivery of account telemetry
• CloudTrail, AWS Config, VPC Flow Logs, CloudWatch Events, etc.
• Consume telemetry with Lambda functions in Security Account
Lambda
function
Notify,
Store,
Integrate,
Etc.

AWS Config & Config Rules
A continuous recording and continuous assessment service.
Changing resources
AWS Config
Config Rules
History, Snapshot
Notifications
API Access
Normalized
Answer the questions:
How are my resources configured over time?
Is a change, that just occurred to a resource, compliant?
Lambda
functions

AWS Config Aggregator

CloudFormation StackSets

CloudFormation StackSets
• Integration with AWS Organizations
• Pre-created CloudFormation templates

Amazon API Gateway
Amazon API
Gateway
Lambda
function
Custom Security Applications Chatbots Integration

Security Organizations Beware…
• …alarm fatigue
• Example: A Lambda function that alerts your inbox every time a security group changes.
• …a lack of action/accountability
• Example: A Lambda function that only confirms application teams are breaking policy.
• …being exhaustive over iterative
• Example: Designing your ideal platform before implementing your first Lambda function.
• …preferring tools over purpose
• Example: Accepting blind-spots if your preferred tools aren’t compatible.
• …keeping code at arms-length
• Example: The code running in your functions was not written by someone on your team.

Use AWS Lambda as a Security Team to…
• … embrace automation.
• … be event-driven.
• … scale across AWS accounts.
• … stay lean.
• … reduce cost.
• … remain flexible.

Thank you!

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