The latest threat intelligence shows that of 66% security threats to public cloud environments are attributed to resource misconfigurations. It has never been more critical for organizations using the public cloud, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), to optimize their security posture to prevent vulnerabilities, block advanced threats targeting workloads, and keep critical data secure and private.
These goals can be hard to achieve without the right tools and specialist security skills, but managed cybersecurity services for AWS environments provide the 24/7 protection, monitoring and incident response needed. It starts with designing your cloud environment to adhere to AWS security and compliance best practice standards. Then to make sure you have the right security tools and processes to monitor them, and response to anomalies which could indicate malicious activity or unauthorized changes that could affect your security posture.
Managed Cybersecurity Service Providers should go on to help increase the efficiency of your IT team, with cybersecurity tools running on workloads and the network that is optimized to prevent threats reaching your systems. Their expert resources then free your teams to focus on other projects by monitoring your AWS environment 24/7 to hunt for and detect unauthorized actors even at the most inconvenient times—so threats to data and workloads are responded to immediately, at any time of the day or night.
