How to Achieve ISO 27001 Compliance for AWS EC2
How to Achieve ISO 27001 Compliance for AWS EC2
ISO 27001 compliance is essential for ensuring the security and management of sensitive information across your organization. Pulumi can assist you in making your AWS infrastructure ISO 27001 compliant. Pulumi can help you identify existing cloud resources that are not in compliance, and it can also enforce compliance policies proactively before infrastructure is deployed. Get started with Pulumi to use these compliance tools or speak with a Solutions Architect to get an expert consultation.
What is ISO 27001 Compliance?
ISO 27001 is an internationally recognized standard for establishing, implementing, maintaining, and continually improving an information security management system (ISMS). It helps organizations protect sensitive data by providing a risk-based approach, ensuring that security measures are proportionate to the risks faced. ISO 27001 is based around the following 3 pillars: confidentiality, integrity, and availability. By achieving ISO 27001 certification, organizations demonstrate their commitment to robust information security practices and regulatory compliance.
Key Aspects of ISO 27001 Compliance
- Risk Management: ISO 27001 requires organizations to assess risks related to their information assets and implement controls to mitigate these risks.
- Security Controls: The standard includes a comprehensive set of security controls (outlined in Annex A) that cover areas like access control, cryptography, physical security, and incident management.
- ISMS Implementation: Organizations must establish an ISMS, which is a systematic approach to managing sensitive company information so that it remains secure. This involves setting policies, procedures, and controls.
- Continuous Improvement: ISO 27001 emphasizes the importance of continually monitoring, reviewing, and improving the ISMS to adapt to changing security risks and business needs.
- Compliance and Certification: Organizations can seek certification to ISO 27001 by undergoing an external audit conducted by a certification body. Certification demonstrates that an organization has implemented best practices for information security management.
- Legal and Regulatory Requirements: ISO 27001 helps organizations comply with legal, regulatory, and contractual obligations related to information security.
Pulumi Insights
Use Pulumi Insights to gain visibility into your cloud infrastructure's configuration to assess ISO 27001 compliance. Pulumi Insights is Intelligent Cloud Management. It helps you gain security, compliance, and cost insights into the entirety of your organization's cloud assets and automatically remediate issues.
Pulumi Copilot
Use Pulumi Copilot to assist configuring your infrastructure to make it compliance ready. You can tap into the Pulumi Copilot's deep understanding of your organization's context to gain visibility into the configuration of resources and assess their compliance.
Compliance Ready Policies
With comprehensive coverage of AWS, Pulumi Compliance Ready Policies provide an enhanced level of control and governance over your cloud resources. Pulumi Compliance Ready Policies empower you to enforce best practices, security standards, cost controls, and compliance requirements seamlessly within your infrastructure-as-code workflows.
What is EC2 resources?
Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) is a web service that provides scalable computing capacity in the cloud, allowing users to run virtual servers on-demand. It offers server instances, storage, and networking options to tailor the infrastructure to specific application needs.
What controls can I put in place to evaluate EC2 resources resources?
- Amazon EBS snapshots should not be publicly restorable
- VPC default security groups should not allow inbound or outbound traffic
- Attached Amazon EBS volumes should be encrypted at-rest
- Stopped EC2 instances should be removed after a specified time period
- VPC flow logging should be enabled in all VPCs
- EBS default encryption should be enabled
- EC2 instances should use Instance Metadata Service Version 2 (IMDSv2)
- Amazon EC2 instances should not have a public IPv4 address
- Amazon EC2 should be configured to use VPC endpoints that are created for the Amazon EC2 service
- Unused Amazon EC2 EIPs should be removed
- Security groups should not allow ingress from 0.0.0.0/0 or ::/0 to port 22
- Security groups should not allow ingress from 0.0.0.0/0 or ::/0 to port 3389
- Amazon EC2 subnets should not automatically assign public IP addresses
- Unused Network Access Control Lists should be removed
- Amazon EC2 instances should not use multiple ENIs
- Security groups should only allow unrestricted incoming traffic for authorized ports
- Security groups should not allow unrestricted access to ports with high risk
- Both VPN tunnels for an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection should be up
- Network ACLs should not allow ingress from 0.0.0.0/0 to port 22 or port 3389
- Amazon EC2 Transit Gateways should not automatically accept VPC attachment requests
- Amazon EC2 paravirtual instance types should not be used
- Amazon EC2 launch templates should not assign public IPs to network interfaces
- EBS volumes should be covered by a backup plan
- EC2 transit gateway attachments should be tagged
- EC2 transit gateway route tables should be tagged
- EC2 network interfaces should be tagged
- EC2 customer gateways should be tagged
- EC2 Elastic IP addresses should be tagged
- EC2 instances should be tagged
- EC2 internet gateways should be tagged
- EC2 NAT gateways should be tagged
- EC2 network ACLs should be tagged
- EC2 route tables should be tagged
- EC2 security groups should be tagged
- EC2 subnets should be tagged
- EC2 volumes should be tagged
- Amazon VPCs should be tagged
- Amazon VPC endpoint services should be tagged
- Amazon VPC flow logs should be tagged
- Amazon VPC peering connections should be tagged
- EC2 VPN gateways should be tagged
- EC2 Client VPN endpoints should have client connection logging enabled
- EC2 transit gateways should be tagged
- EC2 security groups should not allow ingress from 0.0.0.0/0 to remote server administration ports
- EC2 security groups should not allow ingress from ::/0 to remote server administration ports
Speak to a Solutions Architect to implement policy as code to manage EC2 resources for ISO 27001 compliance.
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