S C O TT WA R D

BUILDING SECURITY BEST PRACTICES WITH AWS AND CROWDSTRIKE

SPEAKER

§ 18+ years at Amazon & Amazon Web Services

§ 13 years building financial systems and global payments integrations

§ 5+ years as a partner solution architect focused on security technology partners

§ Likes…… Cheeseburgers

Principal Solutions Architect

SCOTT WARD

© 2019 CROWDSTRIKE

SECURITY AND OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCEARE OUR TOP PRIORITY

SOFTWARE

PLATFORM, APPLICATIONS, IDENTITY, & ACCESS MANAGEMENT

OPERATING SYSTEM, NETWORK, & FIREWALL CONFIGURATION

CUSTOMER DATA

CUSTOMER

CLIENT-SIDE DATA ENCRYPTION & DATA INTEGRITY

AUTHENTICATION

SERVER-SIDE DATAFILE SYSTEM AND/OR DATA

NETWORK TRAFFICPROTECTION (ENCRYPTION, INTEGRITY,

IDENTITY)

HARDWARE/AWS GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE

COMPUTE STORAGE DATABASE NETWORKING

REGIONS AVAILABILITY ZONES EDGE LOCATIONS

RESPONSIBILITY FOR SECURITY “IN” THE CLOUD

AWS

RESPONSIBILITY FOR SECURITY “OF” THE CLOUD

SHARED RESPONSIBILITY MODEL

PLATFORM, APPLICATIONS, IDENTITY, & ACCESS MANAGEMENT

OPERATING SYSTEM, NETWORK, & FIREWALL CONFIGURATION

CUSTOMER DATA

CUSTOMER

CLIENT-SIDE DATA ENCRYPTION & DATA INTEGRITY

AUTHENTICATION

SERVER-SIDE DATAFILE SYSTEM AND/OR DATA

NETWORK TRAFFICPROTECTION (ENCRYPTION, INTEGRITY,

IDENTITY)

RESPONSIBILITY FOR SECURITY “IN” THE CLOUD

SHARED RESPONSIBILITY MODEL

§ Virtual Servers in the Cloud§ Vertically and Horizontally Scale§ Windows and Linux Operating Systems§ Five instance Classes & 100+ Instance Types

General Purpose

Compute Optimized

Memory Optimized

Accelerated Computing

Storage Optimized

ELASTIC COMPUTE CLOUD (EC2)

You control the operating system§ Patching§ User Access/Permissions§ OS Hardening§ Encryption§ Security Features§ Logging§ Security Products

Security Groups§ Stateful Firewall§ Default Deny for Inbound

You control your network placement§ Define what is private and public

EC2 SECURITY

§ You use CrowdStrike to help protect your EC2 instances

§ EC2 offers benefits around flexibility and elasticity

§ What strategies exist to ensure that your security can keep up with how you are using AWS?

CROWDSTRIKE AND EC2

Current Golden AMI

Running Instance Add Falcon + Other tools or software

New Golden AMI

§ Copy AMI to necessary regions and accounts§ Publish new golden AMI IDs§ Enforce usage through pipelines or configuration checks

sudo /opt/CrowdStrike/falconctl -d -f --aid

PREBAKED AMI

EC2 Instance

IAM Permissions

Bootstrap Code

S3 Bucket

Parameter Store

BOOTSTRAP AT LAUNCH

S3 bucket to store agents

S3 Bucket: falcon-agent-bucket

BOOTSTRAP AT LAUNCH

BOOTSTRAP AT LAUNCH

BOOTSTRAP AT LAUNCHBootstrap Code for S3

LINUX#!/bin/bashaws s3 cp s3://falcon-agent-bucket/rhel/current/falcon-sensor-current.rpm /tmpyum install /tmp/falcon-sensor-current.rpm –y/opt/CrowdStrike/falconctl -s --cid=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxservice falcon-sensor start---------------WINDOWS<powershell>Read-S3Object -BucketName falcon-agent-bucket/windows/current -Key WindowsSensor.exe -File c:\WindowsSensor.exe

c:\WindowsSensor.exe /install /quiet /norestart CID=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</powershell>

BOOTSTRAP AT LAUNCHAccess policy for S3

{"Version": "2012-10-17","Statement": [

{"Effect": "Allow","Action": "s3:ListBucket","Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::falcon-agent-bucket"

},{

"Effect": "Allow","Action": "s3:GetObject","Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::falcon-agent-bucket/rhel/current/*”

}]

}

BOOTSTRAP AT LAUNCH

AWS Parameter Store

BOOTSTRAP AT LAUNCH

AWS Parameter Store

BOOTSTRAP AT LAUNCHBootstrap code for parameter store

#!/bin/bashagentloc=`aws ssm get-parameter --name /falcon/alinux/current --query 'Parameter.Value' --region us-west-2|sed 's/"//g’`

cid=`aws ssm get-parameter --name crowdstrike-customer-id --query 'Parameter.Value' --region us-west-2|sed 's/"//g’`

agentfile=`echo $agentloc|awk -F / '{print $4}'`aws s3 cp s3://$agentloc /tmp

yum install /tmp/$agentfile -y/opt/CrowdStrike/falconctl -s --cid=$cidservice falcon-sensor start

BOOTSTRAP AT LAUNCHAccess policy for S3 and SSM

{"Effect": "Allow","Action": "s3:ListBucket","Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::falcon-agent-bucket"

},{

"Effect": "Allow","Action": "s3:GetObject","Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::falcon-agent-bucket/alinux/current/*"

},{

"Effect": "Allow","Action": "ssm:GetParameter","Resource": [

"arn:aws:ssm:us-west-2:526039161745:parameter/falcon/alinux/current","arn:aws:ssm:us-west-2:526039161745:parameter/crowdstrike-customer-id"

]}

Amazon S3

AMI

Launch

AWS Parameter Store

Bootstrap

Bootstrap

Final Instance

BOOTSTRAP AT LAUNCH

AWS Systems Manager

Document

§ Install Software on instances managed by AWS Systems Manager

§ Deploy across a range of instances and operating systems

§ AWS EC2 and outside AWS

Zip File Deploy

USING SYSTEMS MANAGER DISTRIBUTOR

Visibility Lack of AWS Metadata

IMPORTANT CHALLENGES FOR AWS CUSTOMERS

Visibility into EC2 resources across all AWS accounts registered with Falcon Discover

FALCON DISCOVER FOR AWS

§ Availability Zone

§ Instance Type

§ State (Running/Stopped)

§ AMI ID

§ Public IP

§ Private IP

§ Storage Volumes

§ Instance ID

§ Launch Time

§ Security Groups & Rules

§ Tags

§ VPC ID

§ Subnet

§ Region

IMPORTANT AWS METADATA

AWS CloudTrail

You are making

API calls...

On a growing set of AWS

services around the

world..

CloudTrail is continuously

recording API calls

Store/ Archive

Troubleshoot

Monitor & Alarm

HOW FALCON DISCOVER IS LEARNING ABOUT YOUR RESOURCES

AWSCloudFormation

AWSCloudTrail Amazon S3

AmazonSNS

IAMRole

CONNECTING FALCON DISCOVER WITH YOUR AWS ACCOUNT

AWSCloudFormation

CONNECTING FALCON DISCOVER WITHYOUR AWS ACCOUNT

Common AWS Strategy

§ Workload Isolation§ Avoid resource conflicts§ Clear security boundary§ Billing benefits

Falcon Discover Visibility

§ All your Accounts§ All your VPCs§ All Regions

MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS AND MULTIPLE VPCS

AWS AGENT COVERAGE

FILTERING ON MANAGED AND UNMANAGED INSTANCES

FILTERING ON MANAGED AND UNMANAGED INSTANCES

FALCON INSTANCE DETAILS DASHBOARD

FILTERING INTERNET ACCESSIBLESECURITY GROUPS

Security Hub AWS SECURITY HUB

CROWDSTRIKE SECURITY HUB INTEGRATION

TAKING ACTION WITH SECURITY HUB

AWS Security Hub Amazon CloudWatch Events

Amazon GuardDuty

Amazon Inspector

Amazon Macie

3rd Party Providers

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Target options

THANK YOU

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