An organization’s compliance with regulatory standards for application usage and data storage must remain in accordance with industry guidelines and local, national, and international laws.
Failing to maintain compliance can result in several consequences, including steep fines, damage to a business’s reputation, and even the potential of downtime to its network infrastructure, causing severe disruptions to its processes and end users.
Let’s look at what compliance in AWS entails and some solutions organizations can leverage to ensure they remain compliant.
Normativa de cumplimiento en AWS
Cloud environments like AWS have become increasingly popular as more organizations realize their scalability and cost efficiencies. However, as these organizations increase their cloud migrations, they must also understand the increased scope of compliance they are taking on—especially since cloud providers like AWS do not offer the necessary data protection and security requirements to meet full compliance on all ends.
Remember that compliance is not just about meeting requirements for real-time processes; securing enterprise data and its backups is an essential aspect that can often prove even more complicated. If your organization is currently using AWS for its workloads and data, you must be equipped to meet all the various compliance requirements, both now and as they change in the future.
Aunque AWS garantiza un cierto nivel de cumplimiento por su parte, el cumplimiento total por parte de la organización se enmarca en lo que se conoce como «modelo de responsabilidad compartida».
¿Qué es el modelo de responsabilidad compartida de AWS?
Under AWS’s shared responsibility model, AWS is responsible for compliance with any regulations regarding the host layer and physical infrastructure, while the organizations using AWS are responsible for regulations relevant to how they use the cloud services, host applications, and store data.
These shared compliance responsibilities are referred to as “security of the cloud” and “security in the cloud.”
AWS is responsible for the security of the cloud itself—the infrastructure that runs its cloud services, such as hardware, software, networking, and facilities.
Las organizaciones que utilizan AWS son responsables de garantizar la seguridad en la nube. Estas responsabilidades dependen de los servicios concretos que utilice la organización y pueden incluir cualquier aplicación, software o utilidad instalada por el cliente en las instancias, el acceso a los puntos finales utilizados para almacenar y recuperar datos, y la gestión de los datos, lo que incluye cualquier opción de cifrado que se implemente.
The organization’s responsibilities don’t end there; they must also classify their assets and use identity and access management (IAM) tools to apply the appropriate permissions. And this is all in addition to meeting service-level agreements (SLAs) with their customers.
Aunque AWS ofrece a las organizaciones sus propias herramientas nativas de cumplimiento normativo, esto no quita que el proceso pueda resultar complicado y engorroso cuando se lleva a cabo de forma manual y continua.
Los retos que plantea el cumplimiento normativo en AWS
Organizations have many hurdles to face when seeking to meet compliance requirements within AWS.
First, there is a wide range of governmental and industry-specific regulations, including HIPPA, PCI, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and Europe’s Global Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). These requirements are in addition to the complexities surrounding protecting consumer personally identifiable information (PII).
Estas normativas también están sujetas a cambios en cualquier momento. A ello se suman las inconsistencias entre las normativas estatales, federales e internacionales, lo que complica aún más la situación. Por ejemplo, existe un plazo mínimo de conservación de seis años a nivel federal para los expedientes protegidos por la HIPAA, pero los requisitos a nivel estatal pueden oscilar entre cinco y diez años.
There’s also the issue of the hidden costs and sticker shock that can occur when achieving compliance within AWS. Organizations that use large volumes of snapshots to back up data and meet retention requirements can see their costs snowball over time as the snapshots add up.
Furthermore, organizations going the manual route with compliance must use multiple tools or manually-written scripts to piece together their policies—a process that’s very complex to implement and maintain. This is even more difficult when trying to keep up with shifting regulations or trying to stifle rising storage costs.
What’s the Best Way To Meet Compliance in AWS?
Confiar en el cumplimiento normativo manual resulta complicado, engorroso, costoso y deja mucho margen para el error. Este entorno genera un alto riesgo de incumplimiento normativo que puede traducirse rápidamente en el fracaso de la empresa.
Choosing an AWS compliance solution that meets the necessary data retention periods, security measures, cost efficiencies, and data recovery requirements is the most effective way to help you not only achieve but continue meeting requirements as they change.
Clumio simplifica la protección de datos y el cumplimiento normativo en AWS con una solución llave en mano
Clumio is a fully secure, backup-as-a-service that provides air-gap ransomware protection and compliance-driven data retention for AWS applications. it offers simple automation of even the most tedious compliance tasks, freeing up your IT and development staff to focus on other aspects of the organization’s operations.
With Clumio, your organization has a centralized backup solution that defines backup policies and monitors compliance in real-time across your entire AWS environment—and all of your SLAs. Clumio also enables predictable cloud backup and data storage costs, eliminating skyrocketing overhead and sticker shock associated with the constant creation of data snapshots.
Clumio lo consigue de la siguiente manera:
- Ofrece una interfaz sencilla que proporciona una visión única y coherente de todos tus activos de AWS y elimina la complejidad al detectar automáticamente las cuentas de AWS e indexar cualquier recurso que requiera protección de cumplimiento mediante políticas uniformes. Además, los nuevos recursos se detectan automáticamente y se les aplican las mismas políticas.
- Ofrece cifrado, compresión y gestión de recursos, así como alertas inmediatas cuando el cumplimiento normativo pueda verse comprometido.
- Storing backups behind an air-gap and outside of production environments to help protect against account compromises such as ransomware attacks and bad actor behavior.
- Clumio ha superado numerosos y rigurosos procesos de certificación, entre los que se incluyen las normas ISO 27001, ISO 27701, SOC 2 Tipo 2, HIPAA y PCI DSS. Estas rigurosas pruebas convierten a Clumio en una de las plataformas más seguras de AWS.
- Eliminating the need to write work-around automation scripts thanks to Clumio’s policy-driven solution that helps organizations meet data and governance mandates by by enabling the application of uniform policies to all assets. Clumio allows policies to be built using AWS tags, so it integrates into existing workflows.
Clumio ayuda con el cumplimiento normativo de AWS
Desarrollado de forma nativa en AWS, Clumio ofrece escalabilidad automática, supervisión y asistencia las 24 horas del día, los 7 días de la semana, todo ello a través de una interfaz intuitiva y con gran capacidad de respuesta, además de un proceso de incorporación rápido.
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