ACAI Lab – Secure AWS Landing Zone

The following blog-post introduces the ACAI Lab – Secure AWS Landing Zone.  

It lets you experience a live AWS Landing Zone deployment in a publicly accessible sandbox environment from two perspectives: Security Operator, Application DevOps-Team. 

Here are the direct links to the accounts of the individual roles –It’s recommended to open each account’s URL in a different private browser window in order to avoid single-sign-on related issues: 

Core Monitoring Account

The provided Kibana dashboard visualizes event logs (AWS CloudTrail, AWS Security Hub and Amazon GuardDuty) of all AWS accounts belonging to your landing zone and collected in real-time. 

Core Logging Account

Try the Core Logging live demo by clicking here: https://secure-lz.aws.acai-labs.ch/core-logging

The Core Logging account contains the S3 buckets for the audit logs. The logs are KMS encrypted have versioning enabled and a life-cycle policy configured for limited data retention.

Core Auditing Account

The Core Auditing Account provides the Amazon Security Hub master and the Amazon GuardDuty master aggregating the data from all members. So, from a single navigation point you can get security insights on the whole landscape of your AWS accounts.

AWS Security Hub

Try the Core Auditing Security Hub live demo by clicking here: https://secure-lz.aws.acai-labs.ch/core-auditing/securityhub

AWS Security Hub is your single pane of security.

In the lab AWS Security Hub has two standards enabled – for details see our other blog post: Security Standards recommended for your AWS Landing Zone

Detailed overview of CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark security controls:

Amazon GuardDuty

Try the Core Auditing GuardDuty live demo by clicking here: https://secure-lz.aws.acai-labs.ch/core-auditing/guardduty

GuardDuty provides you an overview of the security findings which popped up in your account landscape. Per finding you get detailed information as a starting point for your analysis: 

Business Accounts

This is where the landing zone scales out – you can have hundreds of business accounts.

Try out the existing sample business accounts by clicking here: https://secure-lz.aws.acai-labs.ch/business1-prod or https://secure-lz.aws.acai-labs.ch/business1-nonprod

Note, that you can also navigate to Amazon Security Hub and Amazon GuardDuty in each of the accounts and will see the data on account-level. 

Detailed Lab-Overview

The following image provides you an overview of the AWS services deployed in the lab and the dataflows.

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