AWS Security

Whether you need to monitor CloudTrail events, EC2, EKS, and Fargate, or scan the configuration of security groups, IAM, RDS, and S3, Threat Stack is the perfect complement to integrating with and securing your entire AWS environment.

The Threat Stack Approach

Manage Across Accounts and Consolidate Tools

Threat Stack helps you pull important security information from your AWS services and accounts into a central location, allowing you to understand your attack surface and manage risk quickly.

Trust but Verify

Inconsistent or overly authorized DevOps teams can spin up instances and use services to generate unexpected costs or exposures. Threat Stack enables you to gain visibility into infrastructure changes, risky behavior, and anomalous activities without introducing blockers and permissions that unnecessarily slow down your team.

Detect Anomalous Behavior in the Cloud

Unlike cloud security solutions that only assess account misconfigurations, Threat Stack also monitors for risky and anomalous behavior using a combination of pre-built rules and Threat ML for anomaly detection — helping you understand whether you’re exposed and what happened if someone breached your environment.

Cover Your Portion of the Shared Responsibility Model

While AWS is responsible for protecting the infrastructure that runs its services, you’re responsible for securing your data and systems. Threat Stack helps you manage the security and compliance for your share of responsibility by collecting and analyzing data from your EC2 instances and the AWS Management Console, alerting you of risky runtime misconfigurations or behaviors.

Threat Stack provides cloud security posture management (CSPM) through the platform’s Configuration Auditing feature. With scheduled and on-demand assessments against CIS Benchmarks, Threat Stack provides 47 default policies for evaluating configuration state against your foundational AWS services.

Be Prepared If Your AWS Keys End Up in the Wrong Hands

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Mistakes happen. If someone gets ahold of your AWS keys, they have free reign over your infrastructure. They could make changes to your configurations, spin up new instances, or traverse your infrastructure until they find an instance with admin privileges to access private data.

Threat Stack monitors both AWS CloudTrail and AWS workloads. As a result, you get visibility to the entire path of the attacker, even for increasingly sophisticated attacks.

Integration Points

  • CloudTrail Integration

    Receive alerts on changes to your instances, security groups, S3 buckets, and access keys, and also see whether any of these changes had adverse effects on your systems.

  • EC2 Integration

    See an inventory of all servers and instances across multiple AWS accounts and see key information like instance ID, region, type, IP, and more. See which servers have the Threat Stack Agent installed and assign Threat Stack rules by using EC2 tags.

  • IAM

    Evaluate configuration best-practices for managing IAM policies and password hygiene.

  • S3

    Perform configuration checks on S3 bucket permissions and encryption.

  • RDS

    Scan settings for RDS backups, encryption, and more.

  • ECS

    Monitor all activity of Amazon ECS containers and the hosts these containers are running on.

  • EKS

    Monitor all activity of Amazon EKS containers and the hosts these containers are running on.

  • Fargate

    Monitor all activity on the serverless compute engines for both ECS and EKS.

  • Graviton2

    Full stack security observability across Graviton2 workloads within EC2 instances.

The Benefits of Threat Stack and AWS

Multiple Layers of Infrastructure. One Timeline to Follow.

Monitor Expanding Infrastructure Automatically

As your company grows, it can be challenging to keep track of new AWS accounts and instances — and adding an obtrusive security solution can lead to insecure workarounds and shadow IT. Threat Stack is baked into your AMIs and popular configuration management tools, so instances are automatically monitored as they are added. Threat Stack also gives you visibility across multiple accounts, making it easier to manage your attack surface and risk.

Assign Security Rules to Servers by EC2 Tag

Normal behavior on one server may indicate compromise on another. Threat Stack automatically pulls in your EC2 tags so you can easily assign rules to subsets of your servers. This means your alerts are even more relevant and actionable.

Investigate Events, Even if the Server No Longer Exists

Autoscaling infrastructure is great for your infrastructure costs and availability but presents challenges for security. Threat Stack allows you to view a history of activity, even on terminated servers, so you won’t have missing pieces when it comes time to investigate.

See What Customers Say About AWS Security Monitoring

October 14, 2020
Low Maintenance - High Impact - Sleep easy

Having an actual person looking into our issues and reaching out to us (normally at the same time we are already looking into it)

Levi H, Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)

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October 13, 2020
Excellent choice for AWS security

Threat Stack monitors our security 24/7 freeing our staff to focus on their core competencies.

Administrator in Airlines/Aviation, Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)

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