AWS Automating Security Controls and Data Protection

Enhancing Application Security Posture with Automated Security Controls and Data Protection

📝 Lab Scenario

You are a Solutions Architect at DataTech Innovations, a data analytics company. The organization aims to strengthen its security posture and implement automated security controls using:

• Amazon RDS
• AWS CloudTrail
• Amazon CloudWatch
• AWS EC2
• Terraform (IaC)

🌟 Project: DataGuardian

DataTech Innovations is developing a cutting-edge security analytics tool, that ensures compliance. The task is to develop a solution to monitor and automatically remediate security configurations on unencrypted EC2 EBS volumes and RDS instances by automatically identifying unencrypted instances and volumes, creating encrypted versions, then automatically swapping them after-hours.

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🎯 Objectives

✔ Automate Security Controls – Monitor & remediate security configurations in real-time.
✔ Ensure Data Protection – Enforce encryption for RDS and EC2 instances.
✔ Enable Monitoring & Logging – Utilize CloudTrail & CloudWatch for security insights.

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📌 Architecture Overview

🔹 AWS Config continuously checks RDS & EC2 encryption status.
🔹 AWS Lambda triggers remediation when a non-compliant resource is detected.
🔹 AWS CloudTrail & CloudWatch track all API calls & provide monitoring dashboards.

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⚡ Prerequisites

Before deploying this solution, ensure you have:

• ✅ An AWS account with permissions to manage RDS, EC2, Lambda, Config, CloudTrail, and CloudWatch.
• ✅ AWS CLI installed & configured.
• ✅ Terraform installed for infrastructure as code deployment.

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🚀 Deployment Instructions

1️⃣ Clone the Repository

 git clone https://github.com/Judewakim/AWS-Automating-Security-Controls-and-Data-Protection.git
 cd AWS-Automating-Security-Controls-and-Data-Protection

2️⃣ Review and Modify Configuration

• Open script.tf and modify any parameters as needed.

3️⃣ Deploy the Infrastructure

terraform init
terraform apply

Confirm the deployment when prompted.

4️⃣ Verify Deployment

• Check AWS Console to ensure AWS Config rules, Lambda functions, and IAM roles are created.
• Review AWS CloudTrail & CloudWatch logs for activity tracking.

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🗑 Cleanup

To remove all deployed resources, run:

./deletion.sh

Or, use Terraform:

terraform destroy

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📚 References

📌 Automated Security Response on AWS
📌 Implementing Security Controls on AWS
📌 Automate Data Protection

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Note: This lab is based on content from Udemy via Level Up.

💡 Happy Securing! 🔒