Amazon Security Services Monitoring

Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a comprehensive suite of security services to protect cloud workloads, data, applications, and users. It includes a range of functionalities, including Identity and Access Management, Threat Detection, Data Protection, Compliance and Governance, Network and Application Security, and Security Automation and Incident Response.

With Applications Manager's Amazon Security Services monitoring tool, you can ensure continuous protection, compliance, and threat mitigation in AWS environments. Leverage comprehensive monitoring for services like:

• CloudHSM Clusters
• Key Management Services
• Secrets Manager
• Web Application Firewalls (ACLs)

Amazon CloudHSM Cluster Monitoring

AWS CloudHSM is a managed hardware security module (HSM) service that enables you to generate and use encryption keys securely while maintaining full control over them. The cluster-based approach of AWS CloudHSM ensures high availability and redundancy by distributing workloads across multiple HSMs, preventing single points of failure in key management.

With Applications Manager, you can:

• Monitor Cluster information to gain comprehensive insights into the overall health and redundancy of HSM instances.
• Track key usage metrics, such as session vs. token, to know how cryptographic keys are being utilized and ensure proper resource allocation.
• Track network bandwidth usage and stability to identify potential packet loss using metrics like Ethernet data throughput and Received vs Dropped packets.
• Monitor HSM details and configurations to ensure your HSM instances comply with security policies.

Amazon Key Management Services Monitoring

Amazon Key Management Service (KMS) Monitoring involves tracking and analyzing the usage, performance, and security of cryptographic operations within AWS KMS. It provides encryption and decryption capabilities by integrating with various AWS services while adhering to high security and compliance standards.

With Applications Manager, you can:

• Monitor key age and rotation schedules to ensure robust protection of cryptographic keys against potential vulnerabilities.
• Perform regular key rotations to mitigate the security risks associated with prolonged key usage.
• Keep an eye on grant details to prevent unauthorized access and reduce security risks, in addition to tracking server information to ensure the underlying infrastructure functions optimally.
• Calculate and monitor the number of days until the next key rotation to enable proactive issue resolution and maintain data protection.

Amazon Secrets Manager Monitoring

AWS Secrets Manager is a fully managed service which securely stores, manages, and retrieves sensitive information such as database credentials, API keys, and other secrets. It enables automatic secret rotation, eliminating the need for hard-coded credentials in applications, thereby enhancing security.

Applications Manager helps you to:

• Maintain effective management of sensitive credentials by monitoring Secret lifecycle, reducing both unused secrets and potential exposure.
• Protect against accidental loss of critical secrets by calculating and tracking days until scheduled deletion, allowing for timely recovery.
• Identify and mitigate security risks associated with outdated credentials by monitoring secret age and days since the last change, prompting regular rotation.
• Ensures consistent credential refresh and minimize the risk of unauthorized access or credential leaks through comprehensive secret rotation tracking.

Amazon Web Application Firewalls (ACLs) Monitoring

Web Application Firewalls (WAF) Access Control Lists (ACLs) are rule-based security configurations that help protect web applications from common threats such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. ACLs in a WAF define a set of rules that filter and monitor incoming traffic based on specified conditions, such as IP addresses, HTTP headers, request patterns, or geographic location. By enforcing these rules, WAF ACLs help prevent malicious requests from reaching web applications while allowing legitimate traffic to pass through.

With Applications Manager, you can:

• Analyze how WAF rules are applied and ensure that legitimate traffic is allowed while threats are blocked, by tracking request actions.
• Monitor request throughput to gain insights into traffic volume, helping detect anomalies such as sudden spikes that may indicate potential DDoS attacks.
• Monitor rule and client device type based request actions to ensure performance optimization. Here, rule-based metrics help detect and mitigate threats by analyzing how often specific rules are triggered, while client-based metrics identify bot traffic and unusual client behaviors.
• Monitor incoming requests based on client device types (e.g., mobile, tablet, desktop) to identify potential risks and unusual behaviors. This helps detect bot traffic, enforce device-specific security policies, and optimize response actions such as blocking, redirecting, or applying stricter rules to high-risk devices.
• Monitor rule-specific request actions to analyze how often specific rules are triggered. This helps detect and mitigate threats by identifying abnormal traffic patterns, reducing false positives, and optimizing rule performance.Tracking rule-based metrics allows for fine-tuning security policies and improving overall WAF efficiency.
• Guarantee effective filtering of malicious traffic without disrupting user access by observing allowed and blocked requests.
• Assess the effectiveness of bot mitigation strategies with the help of CAPTCHA and challenge requests.
• Obtain visibility into traffic patterns and rule evaluations without immediate enforcement.

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