AWS’s 2023 Cloud Security Trends summarized
Cloud security continues to be a top concern for organizations, and with the ever-growing range of cloud services available, security teams need to develop more advanced controls and processes for evaluating security conditions in their environments.
Here are the main trends to watch for in 2023 and beyond:
- Cloud workload detection and response platforms that are more intuitive and tuned to cloud environments and potential attacks/threats.
- Cloud network detection and response that takes advantage of packet mirroring and other strong access controls and monitoring available in large PaaS/IaaS environments.
- Major focus on identity and access management, especially centralized monitoring and control of identities and privileged identity control and oversight.
- A trend toward Zero Trust within the cloud, aligning and focusing assets and workloads/applications based on a principle of least privilege and access minimization.
- Cloud posture assessment tools for analyzing and remediating control plane security configurations and exposed asset vulnerabilities.
To achieve these trends, organizations can utilize a number of tools, such as:
- AWS Access Advisor feature to map user and service relationships
- AWS Trusted Advisor service to inform account owners of privilege allocation issues
- AWS Access Analyzer to identify potential security risks in the AWS environment
- AWS Organizations to define policies to apply across multiple AWS accounts from a master control level
- CSPM tools and services to monitor cloud security risks and issues, with key features like automatable remediation capabilities, custom policy and rules engines, and integration with DevOps pipeline stages and tools
Overall, these trends and tools reflect the need for security operations in large, distributed cloud environments to adapt and accommodate more dynamic deployments and changes, new services and workloads, and a significantly greater reliance on automation.
For the full Whitepaper 2023 Cloud Security Trends Written by Dave Shackleford please visit: https://pages.awscloud.com/awsmp-adhoc-sec-2023-security-trends-ebook.html
