Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a leading cloud service provider with wide range of services. It is estimated that 41.5% of total cloud users are consumers of AWS Cloud Services. Amazon has over 1 million users in 190 countries. One third of internet users are estimated to visit website using Amazon Web Services. With such huge customer base and services there is an imminent threat of data breach and loss.
Organizations utilizing AWS web services and applications are responsible for securing their sensitive and critical data stored in the cloud. Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides easy deployment and management of its IT operations; however, a challenge is that mistakes can happen and cascade to a bigger impact.
For instance, the misconfiguration of a data store can expose sensitive information such as personally identifiable information (PII), payment card industry (PCI) data, or protected health information (PHI).
In a recent breach event, a reputed marketing analytics company did not configure appropriate security controls on an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) within their AWS environment. As a result of this misconfiguration of AWS, data related to 123 million households was leaked including sensitive data such as home addresses, occupation, and mortgage information.
Encryption Consulting LLC will help your organization with its expertise in Cloud platforms and security services in deploying data protection controls in your AWS Cloud environment.
