security its best to go with a specialized third party threat protection solution. Increase in attacks on Cloud The phenomenon is not entirely new as the attackers find the cloud environment more lucrative for data theft. This is well backed by the growing trend of more and more companies dealing with financial reports, healthcare information and credit card details migrating to the cloud environment. The inbuilt security of Amazon Web Services is not entirely immune to these attacks though most involve credentials theft. Recent incident of a prominent organization relinquishing business once their AWS account was compromised reflect the magnitude of the impending disaster companies in the cloud environment are prone to. Before the company could recover from the attack alternative AWS logins were created and subsequently overall security system collapsed. Another incident involved the mammoth breach of customer data as the administrative credentials were illegally accessed. Implementing third party specialized protection on top of inbuilt security of AWS curtails such intrusion and safeguards the critical data. Teaming with Palo Alto Networks One of the most comprehensive protection is offered by Palo Alto Networks for Amazon Web Services. By linking the technical design aspects of AWS public cloud with solutions of Palo Alto Networks, several security design models can be explored. The most coveted design model is the single virtual private cloud (VPC) ideally compatible for organizations commencing business with the potential to scale up to a huge level of operational requirements in the future. It is distributed across multiple VPCs utilising a Transit Gateway. The VM-Series firewall can be modified to protect access to the applications deployed on EC2 and configured into a VPC on AWS. Fortifying with Fortinet The collaboration of Fortinet with AWS has delivered an exceptionally integrated next-generation firewall solution for safeguarding customer information on AWS. The IPS (intrusion Prevention System) rulesets provided by Fortinet makes it easy for deploying requisite network protection for a particular customer’s entire Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs). The Fortigate-VM seamlessly integrates with AWS Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB) ensuring the security of Amazon VPC environments by optimising it for scalability. It provides a significantly better cloud security service with faster and flexible access to cloud environment for enterprise customers. Safeguarding with Checkpoint Checkpoint provides integrated security for multi-cloud environments, along with centralized management. The added benefit of Checkpoint, allows organizations manage both their onprem & cloud infrastructure seamlessly Compliance & Governance, is an important facet of cybersecurity on cloud, which different organizations find gaps. Checkpoint provides Unified Cloud Compliance with its Cloud Guard solutions, to help organizations ensure Compliance & Governance across Public Cloud Infrastructure. We at SNS have extensive expertise in deploying all the above specialized security solutions on the AWS platform. For any help please write to us at : [email protected]