Which cloud security platforms provide comprehensive encryption and data protection features?

AWS offers KMS, which can be used to both generate and store encryption keys. KMS is a Managed service meaning that you do not have to set up the server for storing and managing keys yourself. AWS takes care of all the hassle while you focus on ensuring the keys have the proper access

Data at rest means that in a storage and it is not moving from one system to another system. It is in a static state. Encryption for data at rest are of various types, AES encryption standard is one of the most popular and it is good enough to ensure the data is protected. It is also good that the encryption done on the data uses an encryption key, which is the only key authorised to decrypt the data whenever it is needed. This encryption should only be accessible by authorized users

TLS is the industry standard for encrypting data in transit. It is facilitated by a certificate and a key. Certbot is a free certificate generation services that can be used for securing websites. There are other certificate authorities that can be used such as Thawte, Comodo, Verisign and more. There is also mTLS which is a step further in validating and securing data from within the application. That is sending/receiving data

The importance of MFA cannot be over-emphasized. Whether it is an SMS confirmation, Email confirmation or Authy which can serve as another layer of validating access, is very crucial. One of the preferred ways to do MFA is to use a hardware token like a Ubikey, which is separate from a mobile device or a laptop. Least privilege means you assign the minimum privilege a user requires and in one case it should be time-boxed so that the access is deleted after it has been used.

The need for MFA is more important than ever, as cyberattacks are becoming more frequent, sophisticated, and damaging. According to a recent report by Microsoft, 99.9% of compromised accounts did not use MFA. The report also found that MFA can block more than 99.2% of account compromise attacks, making it one of the most effective security measures available.    The rise of the hybrid workforce and accelerated digital transformation of businesses by the COVID-19 pandemic expanded risk scenarios for employees and companies. MFA can help mitigate these risks by simply adding an extra verification step and preventing access from unknown or suspicious sources.

Incident response is both a process and tooling solution. First there needs to be an incident management policy that explains how incidents are managed in a company. Tools like Grafana Incident, Oncall and AWS SSM Incident Manager are tools that can be used to manage incidents and escalations during an incident. Monitoring systems can be integrated with Incident management services to capture real time history of an incident, activities during an incident which can serve as the incident report, or can be used to create a detailed incident report