Cybersecurity: trends y services all with protect loads de work

Today we will talk about one of the topics major in the business sector, cybersecurity. Trends for 2023 suggest a significant need to protect ourselves against cybercrime.  The spread of spam and malware via email, The rise of ransomware, Unauthorized personnel access to individual resources…there are many points that we must control in order to try to strengthen our systems as much as possible.

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Cybersecurity: Trends and featured services to be prepared against threats

Ransomware is a malicious code through which they extort companies to offer them a specific amount of money that they They ask for your personal data in exchange with threats such as the publication of their data, the leak with rival companies or the export of their information in the deep web.

According to this report from McKinsey, it is expected that by 2025 financial damage will be caused by Cyber ​​threats that will exceed 10,5 trillion dollars annually, therefore, companies will seek to invest more to protect themselves from these types of threats.

More and more companies are migrating to the cloud, so It is very important to monitor, update and have a secure environment in the cloud that ensures the protection of data and activities in the cloud environment.

The AWS platform offers different cybersecurity services that help us to:

• Protect our data, our accounts and workloads from unauthorized access.

• Managing identities, the resources and permissions we use on a large scale.

• Integrate a very detailed security policy at network checkpoints.

• Carry one monitoring teacher of network activity and account behavior within the cloud.

• Manage our platform globally thanks to the automated compliance checks.

Identity and Access Management 🕵️‍♀️

The Services of AWS Identity They help us manage identities, resources, and permissions at scale in a stable and secure way. AWS has identity services for staff- and customer-facing applications that allow us to get started quickly and manage access, workloads, and applications when we need them, without disruption.

The services that AWS offers us for personal identity management are:

• AWS IAM Identity Center 
• AWS Directory Service
• AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• AWS Resource Access Manager
• AWS Organizations
• AWS Control Tower

Detection 📲

Another essential task within good practices in cloud cybersecurity is threat detection. AWS has detection and response services to identify configuration errors, security errors, abnormal activities or threats that make it possible to respond quickly to unauthorized or unreliable activities that occur in your environment. Some examples of these solutions are:

• Amazon Guarduty
• Security Hub
• Learn more about threat detection services

Network and application protection 🛡

Network and application protection services are responsible for enforcing precise security policies at network control points throughout the organization. In addition, these services help us inspect and filter traffic to prevent unauthorized access to resources at host, network, and application boundaries. Services dedicated to this task include:

• AWS WAF
• AWS VPC Security Groups
• AWS FIREWALL MANAGER
• AWS SHIELD
• AWS NETWORK FIREWALL
• ACLS NETWORK
• Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall

Data protection 📑

AWS provides services that help protect your data, accounts, and workloads from unauthorized access. AWS Data Protection Services provide encryption, key management, and sensitive data discovery capabilities to help protect your data and workloads.

In this case, as we have mentioned, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) allows us to securely manage access to AWS services and resources; in turn, AWS CloudHSM y AWS Key Management Service (KMS) allow encryption keys to be generated and managed securely. While AWS Control Tower provides governance and controls for data residency.

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