Tag: Compliance

The AWS Well-Architected Framework defines six pillars of cloud best-practices, and automation has matured to the point where it’s ready to support customers’ growing sophistication and appetite for efficiency. Learn how 6pillars’ dedication to automation-first and integration with AWS-native tools enables customers to deploy automation of AWS best practices quickly, safely, and cost-effectively. This drives significant benefits to customers seeking to adhere to multiple compliance standards.

Data governance serves an important role in ensuring the quality, consistency, and security of data utilized across an organization. Using a multi-account structure with cross-account access is an AWS best practice that offers several other benefits. Learn how to set up a data governance system in AWS Organization accounts with clients’ use cases and solutions, and how ASCENDING overcame the technical challenges listed above.

It has become increasingly important for companies to meet security and compliance standards set forth across industries today, but this is particularly a hurdle for smaller ISVs and startups that do not have the resources and budget to navigate the ever-growing list. Learn about an approach and best practices for SOC 2 compliance, and how DuploCloud accelerates time to compliance by natively integrating security controls into mainstream DevOps workflows.

Enterprises require the ability to be proactive on modern governance challenges. The difficulty is knowing what data you have, where it’s located, its business value or risk to the organization, and how it can be protected. The Smarsh Enterprise Platform enables companies to capture, retain, analyze, and act on the “signals” in communications that are most critical to the business. These include compliance and brand risks and may expand to include security threats, cultural indicators, untapped revenue opportunities, and more.

Most SaaS solutions which undergo an AWS Foundational Technical Review (FTR) ingest, manage, and store sensitive data. The FTR is a review based on the AWS Well-Architected Framework and enables AWS Partners to identify and remediate risks in their solutions. Learn how to manage and secure sensitive data within their SaaS solutions with a focus on addressing requirements related to PII or PHI requirements in the Foundational Technical Review.

DataMasque is an AWS Partner that removes sensitive data from the databases and replaces it with realistic and functional masked values that enable effective development, testing, and analytics. This empowers AWS customers to do secure deployments in testing or non-production environments while mitigating the data breach security risks and allowing relevant teams to focus on development and testing of their applications without hinderance.

Learn how to set up an HAQM EC2 Mac instance with a hardened image provided by the Center for Internet Security (CIS). This will help you to mitigate common threats like malware, denial of service, insufficient authorization, and overlapping trust boundary threats. CIS is an AWS Partner and community-driven nonprofit that aims to make the connected world a safer place for people, businesses, and governments.

Learn how the CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark helps organizations operate securely whilst examining the common challenges businesses face in its implementation. Stax can offer a solution to speed up AWS account creation while adhering to the CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark. Creating and configuring AWS accounts securely can be a time-consuming and tedious exercise. Competing priorities can result in rushed or inconsistent process, impacting security, agility, and velocity.

To meet compliance like PCI-DSS, SOC2, and HIPAA, a customer typically has to change their architecture and workload, which can take significant time, money, and effort. With Very Good Security (VGS), customers retain full control over their data while offloading information security burdens, transferring the risk of a data breach, and fast-tracking compliance. VGS acts as a secure layer between your company and sensitive data.

An AWS Well-Architected Review is the optimal way to measure your architecture against AWS best practices and to improve your architecture by addressing critical issues. Learn how the nOps cloud management platform allows customers and consulting partners to have a more accurate view of AWS service configurations in alignment with the Well-Architected Framework. We’ll also explore how nOps enables more prescriptive and real-time insights to continuously improve the architecture over time.