About the Client:
The client, a leading financial services provider, manages over 5 million sensitive customer records. Operating across three AWS regions, their infrastructure includes 200+ resources such as EC2, S3, RDS, and ELBv2. Ensuring security and compliance with PCI DSS standards was critical to protecting data and mitigating financial and reputational risks.
Challenges:
- Critical vulnerabilities across IAM, EC2, S3, and ELBv2 resources.
- Missing CloudTrail configurations, resulting in zero API activity visibility.
- Unencrypted EBS volumes and publicly accessible ports.
- Overprivileged IAM policies with weak credentials and missing MFA.
- S3 buckets with misconfigured policies, public access, and disabled versioning.
- Compliance gaps that posed risks of breaches and financial penalties.
Solution:
Beyond Key conducted a 4-week audit using Scout Suite, AWS Config, and custom scripts. Starting with discovery and risk prioritization, the team implemented encryption, granular IAM policies, and S3 hardening measures..
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