Cloud security and compliance remains a major challenge for organizations that manage multiple AWS accounts in different regions. Companies must follow various regulations and keep their environment secure, which takes considerable effort and resources. AWS tools make this process easier to handle.

AWS security services provide detailed solutions to automate compliance checks and fix security issues quickly. Take Fortra as an example – they cut down their security fix time from 72 hours to just minutes by using AWS security tools. AWS Audit Manager lets companies track their AWS usage against popular frameworks like CIS, PCI DSS, GDPR, and HIPAA, which makes risk assessment straightforward. The AWS cloud security approach builds protection from the ground up, so companies can welcome new ideas without putting security at risk.

This piece shows how CampaignHQ integrations with AWS security and compliance solutions can automate your security checks. These tools streamline compliance processes and help you fix security issues quickly across your AWS environments.

Shared Responsibility in CampaignHQ AWS Integrations

Successful AWS integrations depend on a clear understanding of security responsibilities. The AWS Shared Responsibility Model provides a framework that splits security duties between AWS and CampaignHQ customers.

AWS security vs customer responsibility in CampaignHQ

A proper security posture in your CampaignHQ AWS environment starts with knowing this division clearly. AWS handles “security of the cloud” and protects the entire infrastructure that supports AWS services. This includes hardware, networking, and physical data centers. AWS secures everything you can’t directly access or modify.

CampaignHQ customers must take care of “security in the cloud” that covers their AWS deployments and configurations. This includes:

• Data protection and encryption
• Identity and access management configurations
• Application security and patching
• Network traffic protection and firewall rules

A Gartner report predicts that all but one of cloud security failures will be the customer’s fault by 2025. This highlights how vital it is to understand your responsibilities under this shared model.

Mapping CampaignHQ components to AWS shared model

Different service types in CampaignHQ’s AWS integrations come with unique responsibility distributions. Users manage almost everything from the operating system up with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) components like EC2 instances. This includes patches, applications, and firewall configurations.

AWS manages the infrastructure and platform layers at the time you use abstracted services like S3 or DynamoDB. However, customers still need to handle data management, encryption options, and appropriate permissions.

The model goes beyond security controls to IT management processes. These responsibilities fall into three categories:

Inherited Controls: AWS fully manages elements like physical and environmental security of data centers.

Shared Controls: Both parties split these tasks. To cite an instance, AWS handles infrastructure patching while CampaignHQ customers manage guest OS updates and application patches.

Customer-Specific Controls: CampaignHQ users exclusively manage these responsibilities, including data classification, access permissions, and encryption implementations.

Organizations using AWS face more than 2,700 security threats monthly on average, according to a 2019 McAfee report. This number shows why implementing the shared responsibility model correctly is the foundation of maintaining reliable security within CampaignHQ AWS integrations.

Automating Compliance with AWS Audit Manager

Organizations still find it challenging to streamline their compliance audits when working with cloud services. AWS Audit Manager helps solve this by keeping track of AWS resource usage and comparing it against industry standards and regulations.

Using pre-built frameworks like CIS and GDPR

AWS Audit Manager provides a comprehensive library of pre-built frameworks based on industry standards and regulations. These frameworks cover CIS AWS Benchmark, GDPR, SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and FedRAMP. The CIS framework combines automated and manual controls that AWS has organized into logical control sets. The CIS Controls v7.1 IG1 framework comes with 8 automated controls and 35 manual controls spread across 18 control sets.

The GDPR 2016 framework contains 378 manual controls spread across 10 control sets. While these controls don’t automatically collect evidence, AWS Audit Manager lets you customize evidence collection through its custom control feature. CampaignHQ can adapt compliance frameworks to their specific needs with this flexibility.

Mapping CampaignHQ controls to Audit Manager assessments

CampaignHQ can map its organizational controls to Audit Manager assessments after picking the right frameworks. They need to create custom controls that use AWS common controls to collect evidence. AWS certified auditors designed the common controls library with pre-defined and pre-mapped AWS data sources that reduce the workload for compliance teams by a lot.

Compliance teams can show they meet multiple framework requirements at once. The common controls help identify overlapping requirements between different regulations and make the assessment process quicker.

Evidence collection from CloudTrail and Config

Audit Manager starts collecting evidence automatically from multiple data sources once an assessment begins. These sources include:

• Compliance checks from AWS Security Hub and AWS Config, following their respective evaluation schedules
• User activity collected continuously from AWS CloudTrail
• Configuration data gathered through API calls to services like EC2, S3, or IAM at frequencies you determine

This automated evidence gathering replaces the old manual, ticket-based processes. Compliance teams used to find it hard to document audit changes, especially as changes happened more frequently and in larger numbers. CampaignHQ can turn manual processes into continuous, automated ones by connecting AWS Config custom rules with Audit Manager. This makes everything more accurate and efficient.

Continuous Security Checks with AWS Config and Security Hub

Security monitoring gives you essential visibility into your AWS environment. Using AWS Config and Security Hub helps establish continuous security checks that spot potential vulnerabilities before they affect CampaignHQ operations.

Deploying AWS Config rules for CampaignHQ resources

AWS Config creates an inventory of resources and captures configuration changes that are the foundations of monitoring. The original configurations use both managed and custom rules. Rules like [ec2-instance-no-public-ip](https://www.bacancytechnology.com/blog/integrating-aws-security-and-aws-config) and restricted-ssh keep EC2 instances from unnecessary exposure. S3 bucket security uses s3-bucket-level-public-access-prohibited and s3-bucket-server-side-encryption-enabled to maintain proper data protection.

Security Hub integration for up-to-the-minute findings

Security Hub brings together security findings from different services after AWS Config starts running. This centralization turns isolated alerts into applicable information. The system processes findings in a standardized format (ASFF) and assesses resources against industry frameworks. Security Hub runs automated compliance checks against standards like CIS and PCI DSS and provides guidance to fix any issues it finds.

Custom compliance checks using Lambda functions

Lambda functions help create custom compliance rules that meet CampaignHQ’s specific needs. These functions run evaluation logic when configuration changes happen or during scheduled assessments. A Lambda function can check if all serverless components have proper X-Ray tracing configurations. Custom rules help put organizational security policies into code, which ensures consistent enforcement across AWS accounts.

Automated Remediation and Multi-Account Governance

AWS security requires automated response capabilities beyond just detecting issues. Security Hub works with Automated Security Response on AWS to automatically resolve common findings and enhance your security posture.

Using Systems Manager Automation documents for patching

Systems Manager Patch Manager provides centralized patching capabilities for cloud and on-premises environments. The service supports multiple operating systems like Linux distributions, macOS, and Windows Server. Organizations can define patching operations for all accounts and regions with a single patch policy configuration. Automation documents execute predefined remediation workflows that reduce remediation time from 72 hours to minutes.

EventBridge triggers for Security Hub findings

Security Hub findings can trigger automated responses through EventBridge rules. These rules match event patterns and launch actions such as Lambda functions or AWS Step Functions. Rule configuration requires “aws.securityhub” as the source and “Security Hub Findings – Imported” as the detail-type. Authorized users can remediate findings across all Security Hub-managed accounts with one action through these automated workflows.

AWS Organizations and Control Tower for CampaignHQ accounts

AWS Organizations paired with Control Tower delivers centralized governance for multi-account environments. The Automated Security Response solution’s playbooks support security standards like CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark and PCI-DSS. Our team can help you implement these solutions – contact us to discuss your cloud security and compliance needs.

Conclusion

AWS security and compliance tools work naturally with CampaignHQ to build reliable security protocols in multiple environments. The shared responsibility model serves as the foundation of AWS security that works. It clearly defines boundaries between AWS-managed components and customer obligations. These differences reduce security risks by a lot and let teams focus their resources where they matter most.

AWS Audit Manager proves to be a powerful ally for compliance teams. It offers pre-built frameworks that match major regulations like GDPR, CIS, and PCI DSS. This feature turns time-consuming manual audits into optimized, continuous assessment processes. AWS Config and Security Hub provide immediate insights into potential vulnerabilities. They run automated security checks that catch issues before they become serious problems.

Automated remediation stands out as a revolutionary force in cloud security management. Systems Manager Automation documents, EventBridge triggers, and AWS Organizations merge to fix security findings without manual intervention. These tools cut down remediation times from days to minutes and ensure consistent security practices in all organizational accounts.

Security and compliance needs change in a variety of organizations based on industry, scale, and specific business needs. Custom implementations often produce the best results. You can contact our team to get individual-specific guidance on setting up AWS security tools for your CampaignHQ integration needs.

Cloud security works best when you choose the right mix of automated checks, compliance frameworks, and remediation processes. These should match your organization’s risk profile while welcoming innovation. AWS security services, properly integrated with CampaignHQ, create this balance between protection and productivity.