Data Protection in AWS Security Incident Response - AWS Security Incident Response User Guide

Data Protection in AWS Security Incident Response

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The AWS shared responsibility model applies to data protection for the AWS Security Incident Response service. As described in this model, AWS is responsible for protecting the infrastructure that runs the services offered in the AWS Cloud. You are responsible for maintaining control over your content that is hosted on this infrastructure. You are also responsible for the security configuration and management tasks for the AWS services that you use. For more information about data privacy, see the Data Privacy FAQ. For information about data protection in Europe, see the AWS Shared Responsibility Model and GDPR blog post on the AWS Security Blog.

For data protection purposes, AWS security best practices state that you should protect AWS account credentials and set up individual users with AWS IAM Identity Center or AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). This way, each user is given only the permissions necessary to fulfill their job duties. We also recommend that you secure your data in the following ways:

  • Use multi-factor authentication (MFA) with each account.

  • Use SSL/TLS to communicate with AWS resources. We require TLS 1.2 and recommend TLS 1.3.

  • Set up API and user activity logging with AWS CloudTrail.

  • Use AWS encryption solutions, along with all default security controls within AWS services.

  • FIPS 140-3 is currently not supported by the service.

You should never put confidential or sensitive information, such as your email addresses, into tags or free-form text fields such as a Name field. This includes when you work with AWS Support or other AWS services using the console, API, AWS CLI, or AWS SDKs. Any data that you enter tags or free-form text fields used for names may be used for billing or diagnostic logs. If you provide a URL to an external server, we strongly recommend that you do not include credentials information in the URL to validate your request to that server.