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.
Normative di conformità all’interno di 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.
Sebbene AWS garantisca un certo livello di conformità da parte propria, la piena conformità dell’organizzazione rientra in quello che è noto come modello di responsabilità condivisa.
Che cos’è il modello di responsabilità condivisa di 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.
Le organizzazioni che utilizzano AWS sono responsabili del mantenimento della sicurezza nel cloud. Tali responsabilità dipendono dai servizi effettivamente utilizzati dall’organizzazione e possono includere qualsiasi applicazione, software o utility installata dal cliente sulle istanze, l’accesso agli endpoint utilizzati per archiviare e recuperare i dati, nonché la gestione dei dati, comprese eventuali opzioni di crittografia implementate.
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.
Sebbene AWS offra alle organizzazioni strumenti di conformità nativi propri, ciò non toglie che il processo possa risultare complesso e gravoso se svolto manualmente su base continuativa.
Le sfide legate al raggiungimento della conformità in 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).
Tali normative sono inoltre soggette a modifiche in qualsiasi momento. A complicare ulteriormente la situazione vi sono le incongruenze tra le normative statali, federali e internazionali. Ad esempio, per i documenti protetti dall’HIPAA è previsto un periodo minimo di conservazione federale di sei anni, mentre i requisiti a livello statale possono variare da cinque a dieci anni.
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?
Affidarsi alla conformità gestita manualmente è complicato, oneroso, costoso e lascia ampio margine di errore. Questo contesto comporta un elevato rischio di mancata conformità che può rapidamente tradursi in un fallimento aziendale.
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 semplifica la protezione dei dati e la conformità su AWS con una soluzione chiavi in 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 raggiunge questo obiettivo:
- Offre un’interfaccia semplice che fornisce una visione unica e coerente di tutte le risorse AWS ed elimina la complessità individuando automaticamente gli account AWS e indicizzando tutte le risorse che richiedono protezione in materia di conformità secondo politiche uniformi. Inoltre, le nuove risorse vengono rilevate automaticamente e sono soggette alle stesse politiche.
- Offre funzionalità di crittografia, compressione e gestione delle risorse, oltre a avvisi immediati qualora la conformità dovesse essere a rischio.
- 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 completato numerose e rigorose procedure di certificazione, tra cui ISO 27001, ISO 27701, SOC 2 Tipo 2, HIPAA e PCI DSS. Questi rigorosi test rendono Clumio una delle piattaforme più sicure su 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: un supporto per la conformità AWS
Realizzato in modo nativo su AWS, Clumio offre scalabilità automatica, monitoraggio e assistenza 24 ore su 24, 7 giorni su 7, il tutto all’interno di un’interfaccia reattiva e intuitiva con un processo di onboarding rapido.
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