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Security Considerations

Just because you moved your applications into a public cloud doesn't mean that you don't have to worry about security - it becomes even more critical to protect your applications with the plethora of tools made available by public cloud providers.

This module describes the security basics of public cloud deployments and focuses on network security mechanisms.

1:13:20 Cloud Security Basics

The most important aspect of public cloud security is the split responsibility model: the cloud provider is responsible for infrastructure security, but you're still responsible for securing your deployment.

This section describes the basics of public cloud security, how you could evaluate the security posture of your public cloud provider, and concludes with an overview of what you could do to secure your public cloud environment.

Cloud 101 18:39 2019-06-07
Cloud Security 101 16:01 2019-06-07
Cloud Provider Evaluation 27:18 2019-06-07
Protecting Your Cloud Environment 7:56 2019-06-07
Summary 3:26 2019-06-07
Slide Deck 6.1M 2019-04-08

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Cloud Service Provider Security Mistakes

1:20:02 Identity and Access Management

In this section you'll learn how to set up your public cloud platform accounts and how to protect them. In addition, Cloud IAM solutions offer the possibility to use the platform accounts for your application stack as well - and we will explore security challenges and opportunities of this approach.

Section Introduction 5:51 2020-02-22
Definitions and Terms 10:02 2020-02-22
Identity and Access Management 28:04 2020-02-22
Deep Down the IAM Rabbit Holes 19:26 2020-02-22
Protecting API Keys 7:57 2020-02-22
IAM Engineering 8:42 2020-02-22
Slide Deck 15M 2019-12-18

1:01:46 Logging and Monitoring

Cloud environments offer new logging mechanisms which differ from traditional technologies. We will explore how you could use cloud storage to save the logs, and analyze them using additional cloud services, or how you could send the cloud events to external services for further analysis.

Section Introduction 3:30 2020-02-29
Definitions and Terms 5:21 2020-02-29
Logging of Cloud Events 13:34 2020-02-29
Cloud-based Log Storage and Analysis 15:46 2020-02-29
Demos and Conclusions 23:35 2020-02-29
Slide Deck 16M 2020-01-15

1:20:22 Automation and Testing

One of the biggest advantage of public cloud environments is their capability to modify any object via an API call or use infrastructure-as-code templates to deploy, modify or destroy whole application stacks, as well as monitor the compliance of actual deployment with desired state specified in the template.

This section describes how you can leverage this capability to increase the security of your deployments, and how the modern IaC and CI/CD methodologies affects traditional security testing approaches.

Section Introduction 2:39 2020-03-06
Terms and Motivation 15:53 2020-03-06
Automation Security Benefits 19:14 2020-03-06
Tools and Lab 28:13 2020-03-06
Testing and Verification 11:09 2020-03-06
Conclusions 3:14 2020-03-06
Automation and Testing Demos 7.3K 2020-01-24
Slide Deck 29M 2020-01-24

2:00:12 Public Cloud Security Considerations

In this section Matthias Luft reviewed the public cloud security groundwork detailed in Cloud Security webinar, and then dived into details needed to develop cloud security, establish zero-trust model, and interact with a cloud-native security team.

Cloud Security Recapitulation 22:52 2020-04-21
Cloud Security Caveats 11:01 2020-04-21
Cloud-Native Security Teams 17:42 2020-04-21
Cloud Network Security Models 20:46 2020-04-21
Zero-Trust Model 12:54 2020-04-21
Network Security versus Virtual Appliances 28:33 2020-04-21
Conclusions 6:24 2020-04-21

List of Crypto Resources Mentioned in the Videos

NIST recommendations for key management
Applied Crypto Hardening
Cryptographic Key Length Recommendation
SSL Configuration Generator

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Public Cloud Security Considerations 79M 2020-04-21

Securing Your Public Cloud Deployment

You will probably want to focus your work on either AWS or Azure. Please watch the materials describing the public cloud provider you want to use during the course.

58:42 AWS Intra-VPC Network Security Mechanisms

AWS offeres several layers of network security within a VPC:

  • Stateful security groups applied to VM interfaces;
  • Stateless network ACLs applied to subnets;
  • Validation of source and destination IP addresses.

All these mechanisms (and the logging and mirroring functionality available with flow logs and VPC traffic mirroring) are described in this section.

Network Security 11:19 2019-06-14
Security Groups 12:53 2019-06-14
Managed Prefix Lists 8:54 2021-10-11
Network ACLs 8:41 2019-06-14
VPC Flow Logs 2:45 2019-06-14
VPC Traffic Mirroring 9:49 2020-12-18
Security Summary 4:21 2019-06-14
Working with Security Groups
Use Prefix Lists to Simplify Configuration of Security Groups
Working with Network ACLs
Example: Controlling Access to Instances in a Subnet
Working with Flow Logs
VPC Traffic Mirroring

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The Security Design of the AWS Nitro System

1:29:13 Securing External AWS Traffic

When you want to secure traffic entering or leaving a VPC, you could use a number of AWS services, including:

  • Network Firewall: scale-out layer-4 firewall combined with Suricata IPS
  • Web Application Firewall: a Layer-7 HTTP(S) firewall
  • AWS Shield: a rudimentary DDoS protection service
Web Application Firewall 13:58 2020-12-18
AWS Shield 4:31 2020-12-18

1:10:44 AWS Network Firewall

AWS Network Firewall Overview 22:04 2023-11-27
Configuring Network Firewall 12:49 2021-04-27
Complex Intra-VPC Network Firewall Deployments 21:18 2023-11-27
Complex Network Firewall Deployments 14:33 2021-04-27

Automation Examples

Web Application Firewall Example

New AWS Features

AWS Network Firewall now supports IPv6-only subnets
Ingress TLS inspection on AWS Network Firewall
Tag-based resource groups on AWS Network Firewall
AWS WAF increases web ACL capacity units limits
AWS Network Firewall adds reject action for TCP traffic
AWS Network Firewall now supports VPC prefix lists
AWS Network Firewall now supports AWS Managed Rules
AWS Shield Advanced now supports Application Load Balancer for automatic application layer DDoS mitigation
AWS Shield Advanced introduces automatic application-layer DDoS mitigation

1:04:08 Azure Network Security Mechanisms

Azure offers numerous network security mechanisms. This section covers intra-VNet mechanisms including:

  • Network Security Groups;
  • Application Security Groups;
  • Packet capture and flow logging;
  • Monitoring tools like IP Flow Verify.

Azure Firewall is described in a separate section.

Azure Network Security Mechanisms 7:47 2020-01-04
Network Security Groups 10:03 2020-01-04
Network Security Group Examples 9:13 2020-01-04
Application Security Groups 7:02 2020-01-04
Network Security Monitoring and Troubleshooting 7:18 2020-01-04

22:45 Hands-on Demos

Network Security Groups 14:29 2019-08-24
Application Security Groups 8:16 2019-08-24

Hands-On Exercises

Secure Your Public Cloud Deployment

In this assignment you'll implement traffic filters, add web application firewall to protect your web server, log SSH traffic to your SSH bastion host and create multiple users with different privilege levels.

Hands-on assignment: Secure Your Public Cloud Deployment 2.3K 2020-04-22
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