January 12, 2024 | Posted in News
As organizations migrate their workloads to cloud infrastructure platforms, new security risks can emerge. Certain risks may expose critical infrastructure to cyberattacks, enabling malicious actors to gain unauthorized access to critical business information and potentially causing large-scale data breaches. We live in a world where information is the new currency, and the consequences of security breaches can be catastrophic both financially and for the company’s brand reputation. As such, the importance of ensuring that cloud applications and services are secure cannot be overstated. In fact, IBM’s 2023 Cost of a Data Breach Report found that 82% of data breaches involved data stored in the cloud.
In this blog, see the depth of Duo integrations with various AWS applications and services, and learn how you can better equip your organization with security that frustrates the attackers and not the users.
IBM’s 2023 Cost of a Data Breach Report found that 82% of data breaches involved data stored in the cloud.
Large enterprises aspire to have roughly 60% of their environment in the cloud by 2025, according to a recent McKinsey report. As cloud adoption continues to accelerate, it is imperative that organizations fortify access to critical data through advanced access management tools and technology.
AWS provides organizations, from nimble startups to global enterprises, a cloud platform to build, deploy, and manage applications with flexibility and scalability in mind. As a modern authentication and access management solution, Cisco Duo helps organizations establish a comprehensive zero trust security model for cloud infrastructure. What does it mean to build a successful zero trust security model? It means that we never assume trust, we always verify it. With Duo, this can be achieved while prioritizing user productivity and scalability, all while minimizing security risks.
Preventing unauthorized access and keeping customers’ data safe is a top priority for Duo and AWS. To support an expansive AWS infrastructure, Duo provides robust access management capabilities including:
In a Zero Trust architecture, context, device trust, and risk should be evaluated on all authentication requests. Most AWS services leverage AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) or AWS Identity Center to authenticate users. By integrating Duo’s SSO with AWS applications such as AWS IAM, AWS Identity Center, and others, AWS admins establish trust in users and devices and use contextual clues to allow access based on the risk it poses to an organization.
Duo SSO enables verified users to authenticate their identity once and seamlessly access AWS and integrated applications eliminating the need for repeated logins. Every time a user accesses an application, Duo’s SSO performs a risk assessment.
Did you know? As customers expand their operations, they can take advantage of Duo SSO login to seamlessly access an unlimited number of integrated apps, whether from AWS or other vendors.
In addition to integration with AWS IAM Identity Center, Duo SSO supports a growing list of AWS apps integrated with Duo SSO using SAML and OIDC to enable easy and secure access to developers, IT admins, end -users etc.:
Did you know? Users get a high level of security without compromising on the experience of logging into apps with Risk- Based Authentication where Duo evaluates potential threat signals at each login attempt and adjusts security in real time.
It takes only 15 min for Duo to be configured to provide all these outcomes. By integrating AWS services with Duo, AWS administrators can bring these zero trust protections to AWS applications.
Duo Desktop integrates with AWS Workspaces to give organizations control over which virtual desktop can access internal websites and SaaS services based on policy system and security requirements for that organization. Duo Desktop checks for security posture to evaluate device attributes and accepts or restricts them based on the security criteria.
Did you know? When a user’s device does not meet the security criteria specified in the device health policy, the Duo Desktop application assists the user in taking the required steps to enhance their device’s security posture, ensuring alignment with the application’s policy.
While the users are empowered to proactively keep their devices updated and healthy, here is how IT admins benefit from this integration:
Note: This integration uses RADIUS Auth Proxy.
Did you know? It takes less than 10 min to protect AWS Directories using Duo MFA using the Quick Starts. This is how IT admins can leverage Duo MFA for AWS Directory Services:
In closing, with the partnership between Duo and AWS, businesses can confidently navigate the digital landscape, knowing their data and access is well-protected. As organizations rapidly expand their operations using AWS resources, they can do so with peace of mind thanks to Duo’s access management solution, which fosters secure, productive, and scalable business outcomes for AWS customers.
Get Duo to secure access and boost user productivity now: