The document discusses the importance of a robust cloud cybersecurity framework for organizations to innovate confidently while managing risks associated with digital transformation. It emphasizes adopting an end-to-end cybersecurity approach that integrates advanced technologies, threat intelligence, and AI to enhance threat detection and incident response. Additionally, it highlights the benefits of collaboration between AWS and Deloitte through their ConvergeSECURITY services to streamline cloud initiatives and improve overall cybersecurity posture.
The document discusses the importance of a robust cloud cybersecurity framework for organizations to innovate confidently while managing risks associated with digital transformation. It emphasizes adopting an end-to-end cybersecurity approach that integrates advanced technologies, threat intelligence, and AI to enhance threat detection and incident response. Additionally, it highlights the benefits of collaboration between AWS and Deloitte through their ConvergeSECURITY services to streamline cloud initiatives and improve overall cybersecurity posture.
The document discusses the importance of a robust cloud cybersecurity framework for organizations to innovate confidently while managing risks associated with digital transformation. It emphasizes adopting an end-to-end cybersecurity approach that integrates advanced technologies, threat intelligence, and AI to enhance threat detection and incident response. Additionally, it highlights the benefits of collaboration between AWS and Deloitte through their ConvergeSECURITY services to streamline cloud initiatives and improve overall cybersecurity posture.
The document discusses the importance of a robust cloud cybersecurity framework for organizations to innovate confidently while managing risks associated with digital transformation. It emphasizes adopting an end-to-end cybersecurity approach that integrates advanced technologies, threat intelligence, and AI to enhance threat detection and incident response. Additionally, it highlights the benefits of collaboration between AWS and Deloitte through their ConvergeSECURITY services to streamline cloud initiatives and improve overall cybersecurity posture.
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How a robust cloud security framework
allows you to push boundaries
Today, industry-leading organizations are integrating regulations and industry standards for information The tension between game-changing digital technology into many aspects of their business, security, privacy, and governance. fundamentally changing how they operate. They leverage advanced technologies to help create competitive The tension between game-changing technologies and an advantage: devising radically new customer experiences, expanding attack surface creates strategic business value empowering global workforces, streamlining complex supply chains, and revolutionizing product development. They also take advantage of the scale, flexibility, and and unprecedented risk.
With strong cybersecurity practices throughout your
technologies and an expanding attack cost-effectiveness of cloud platforms and the latest organization, you can: developments in mobile computing, big data analytics, generative artificial intelligence (AI), and other fields. • Deploy innovative technologies and business processes faster, with confidence. But innovation and risk go together. When you increase interaction with customers, suppliers, and other parties and widen collaboration among your employees, you • Establish positive reputations with customers, business partners, regulators, and investors. surface creates strategic business value and create a vastly larger “attack surface.” Your cybersecurity teams are tasked with monitoring and defending • Reduce the cost of managing and protecting exponentially more systems and devices, in more information systems and data. places, processing more confidential information. You need to detect and monitor the activities of increasingly sophisticated threat actors, including ransomware gangs, fraud rings, nation state-funded hacking teams, and more. Conversely, if your organization doesn’t progress beyond legacy cybersecurity paradigms, you run the risk of slower innovation, impaired reputation, and higher costs. unprecedented risk. You also may need to comply with rigorous government
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Digital transformation demands cybersecurity
Integrated technologies and processes To make cybersecurity a competitive advantage, your • Helps anticipate and prevent attacks on cloud to help monitor and protect your organization organization should consider adopting an end-to-end infrastructure and applications and enables you to approach to cybersecurity that: respond and recover faster.
• Provides security and helps address compliance by • Leverages threat intelligence shared from thousands Attack Network design for cloud transformation, from ramp up to of peer organizations and specialized cybersecurity surface threat detection operationalization. firms. management
• Brings together an integrated, cohesive set of • Makes it easy to take advantage of advanced cloud cybersecurity services and products and offers platforms and powerful AI-driven analytics. access to specialized resources and managed services. Let’s examine how a robust cloud security framework Insider Identity threat threat can allow you to embrace the full potential of cloud detection detection • Eliminates data silos to deliver enterprise-wide cybersecurity and innovate with confidence. visibility into vulnerabilities and threats.
Monitor and protect through enterprise-wide readiness
Adversary Incident threat hunting response Growing organizations need multiple advanced continuously monitor your diverse cloud and data center technologies and integrated processes to help monitor environments, analyze and triage alerts, and respond and protect their ever-expanding attack surface. expeditiously to attacks. That’s why you might want to follow the example of the many organizations that However, your organization probably doesn’t have have turned to a managed service provider with the Endpoint threat detection the time to select, implement and integrate all the experience, infrastructure, and experienced cybersecurity required detection and response tools. You also teams to manage and staff a comprehensive, robust cloud may not have enough cybersecurity professionals to security platform.
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Visibility and AI-driven analytics
Today, the ultimate success
Enterprises now produce vast quantities of cybersecurity- response, fraud detection, adversary threat hunting, and related data that can be used for threat detection and digital forensics capabilities. You can accomplish this with incident response, including millions of daily logging a cyber analytics engine that ingests logs and security
of many cybersecurity events. Unfortunately, most of that data is in isolated files data from cloud platforms, enterprise applications, scattered across the enterprise and its cloud platforms, endpoints, and security and network devices, then uses and there is far too much for any human to analyze. AI to help identify patterns, uncover new and previously unknown threats, detect anomalous activities and policy
programs depends on an With the right cybersecurity strategy, your organization violations, and provide context and recommendations for can leverage unprecedented volumes of cybersecurity security teams. data to supercharge your threat detection, incident
Incident response and recovery: Preparation, plans, and playbooks organization’s ability to Today, the ultimate success of many cybersecurity programs depends on an organization’s ability to respond The elements of that program should include: respond to attacks, quickly to attacks, quickly contain them, and rapidly return to • Tailored cyber monitoring activities normal business operations. Investing in these areas is critical for safeguarding data and systems. A slow or incomplete response can lead to unwanted media • Determination of incident response and recovery priorities contain them, and rapidly return to normal business attention, loss of reputation, data breach notification costs, and business disruption. • Policies and resources for effective alert triage, threat analysis, and forensics Your organization can take an integrated approach to cybersecurity by systematically assessing risks and developing an incident response program customized for your organization’s business, strategy, and structure. • Documented plans and playbooks for near-term attack containment and rapid recovery and resumption of normal operations operations.
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Enterprise cloud transformation and cloud management
An end-to-end approach to cybersecurity facilitates to understand compliance requirements for cloud security and compliance by design for cloud environments and be able to monitor compliance as your transformations. This includes activities to manage cloud cloud environment evolves. infrastructure, regulatory compliance, and cyber risk in the cloud. Another critical part of the transition is upgrading to advanced identity and access management practices. For example, your organization should have a well- That includes providing functions such as single sign-on designed plan to guide the transition of applications (SSO), multi-factor authentication (MFA), and role-based to cloud platforms and services. This includes learning resource provisioning. You will also need to be able to how to manage security capabilities using cloud-native enforce encryption and secrets management policies. tools for vulnerability scanning, firewall configuration and management, and patch management. You should Finally, if your organization is creating its own cloud- also get up to speed on managing and collecting logs based applications, you will want to make sure that your for operating systems, network and security devices, development teams truly master DevSecOps processes and cloud platforms. And of course, you will need and practices.
Shared threat intelligence, AI, and autonomous security
For decades, cybersecurity teams played catch-up with they exploit, the assets they target, the indicators they by threat actors, and anomalous activities on networks threat actors who leveraged the latest technologies and leave on endpoints and networks, and their servers and and cloud platforms. AI can also be used to help pinpoint zero-day attacks to catch defenders unprepared. Now, you infrastructure on the internet. When threat intelligence is vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, insecure application have an opportunity to turn the tables on threat actors shared widely and rapidly between enterprises, government code, over-privileged user accounts, and other security by using widely shared threat intelligence, AI, and big data agencies, and cybersecurity firms, it can help you anticipate weaknesses that in the past have given attackers access to analytics to help anticipate attacks before they reach their and block the attacker’s next moves. networks, applications, and data stores. goal—and possibly before they really get started. AI and big data analytics provide transformative capabilities. When these transformative technologies are used at their Threat intelligence gives your cybersecurity teams By centralizing and normalizing data into a flexible “data highest level, they can enable autonomous security, where visibility into the tactics, techniques, and procedures lake” on a scalable cloud platform with sophisticated AI attacks can be detected, analyzed, blocked, and remediated of cybercriminals, ransomware gangs, hacking groups, models to detect patterns associated with threat activity, with minimal human intervention—turning the tables on and other threat actors. These include the tools they you can obtain new capabilities that detect indicators threat actors. use, the phishing emails they send, the vulnerabilities of attack, compromised endpoints, lateral movement
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Accelerate your cloud journey Benefits of this joint solution include:
with ConvergeSECURITY ConvergeSECURITY combines the power of Amazon Web Services (AWS) technology with the cybersecurity capabilities of Deloitte to accelerate Eliminating data silos Generating actionable insights cloud initiatives and digital innovation. It delivers the flexibility, scalability, and cost optimization of a cloud-enabled IT infrastructure, AWS services, including Security Lake, that are Deloitte and AWS collaborated on the Cyber while integrating a seamless set of cybersecurity services. integrated by Deloitte in the Cyber Analytics and Analytics and AI Engine to deliver insights AI Engine solve the siloed data challenge across that reduce risk and enable cybersecurity your digital estate. ConvergeSECURITY also automation to accelerate prevention, detection, The ConvergeSECURITY services suite: delivers data aggregation and out-of-the-box response, and recovery. Underlying AWS data integration of security products, helping you infrastructure powers AI and Machine Learning • Provides 24/7 security protection and monitoring of essential unlock the power of your security data. models developed to help predict ransomware resources. campaigns, look for lateral movement, find Zero Day threats, and identify anomalies before they • Delivers actionable security threat intelligence across your become bigger issues. organization’s digital estate.
• Leverages a combination of AI-enabled cloud security and
compliance product solutions, consulting experience, and tailored resources.
• Centralizes data and increased threat intelligence throughout Being able to anticipate and prevent attacks Faster response and recovery your organization to effectively detect, respond to, and recover An integrated security approach allows threat You’re better able to safeguard data, systems, from sophisticated cyber threats. detection analytics to be fed by high quality, and reputation when you have response and shared multi-lateral data. When more data is resiliency plans prepared before a cybersecurity contributed, the effectiveness of analytics and incident occurs. This includes being able to machine learning increases, generating more recover mission-critical business functions from accurate threat detection to anticipate and cloud back-ups if a breach happens, so you can prevent attacks. restore capabilities and services.
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Our goal is to provide autonomous security that has human oversight but requires minimal intervention. Let’s talk about how we can make this a reality for your organization.
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Global ConvergeSECURITY Leader Worldwide Leader, Global Partner Security Initiative Deloitte & Touche LLP AWS [email protected][email protected]
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