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When dealing with a security incident in an AWS environment, it’s crucial to handle forensic evidence in a way that complies with data privacy laws. The initial step to avoid legal implications when moving data between AWS regions for analysis is to create an evidence volume from the snapshot of the compromised EC2 instances.

Snapshot Creation: Take a snapshot of the compromised EC2 instance’s EBS volume. This snapshot captures the state of the volume at a point in time and serves as forensic evidence.

Evidence Volume Creation: Create a new EBS volume from the snapshot within the same AWS region to avoid cross-regional data transfer issues.

Forensic Workstation Provisioning: Provision a forensic workstation within the same region where the evidence volume is located.

Evidence Volume Attachment: Attach the newly created evidence volume to the forensic workstation for analysis.

References:Creating an evidence volume from a snapshot is a recommended practice in AWS forensics. It ensures that the integrity of the data is maintained and that the evidence is handled in compliance with legal requirements12. This approach allows for the preservation, acquisition, and analysis of data without violating data privacy laws that may apply when transferring data across regions12.

To manage multiple subscriptions under a single Azure AD tenant with identical role assignments, Azure AD Privileged Identity Management (PIM) is the service that provides the necessary capabilities.

Link Subscriptions to Azure AD Tenant: John can link all the different subscriptions to the single Azure AD tenant to centralize identity management across the organization1.

Manage Role Assignments: With Azure AD PIM, John can manage, control, and monitor access within Azure AD, Azure, and other Microsoft Online Services like Office 365 or Microsoft 3652.

Identical Role Assignments: Azure AD PIM allows John to configure role assignments that are consistent across all subscriptions. He can assign roles to users, groups, service principals, or managed identities at a particular scope3.

Role Activation and Review: John can require approval to activate privileged roles, enforce just-in-time privileged access, require reason for activating any role, and review access rights2.

References:Azure AD PIM is a feature of Azure AD that helps organizations manage, control, and monitor access within their Azure environment. It is particularly useful for scenarios where there are multiple subscriptions and a need to maintain consistent role assignments across them23.

To encrypt the traffic between the load balancer and clients that initiate SSL or TLS sessions, SecAppSol Pvt. Ltd.'s security team would enable an HTTPS listener on their load balancer. This is a common method used in AWS to secure communication.

Here’s how it works:

HTTPS Listener Configuration: The security team configures the load balancer with an HTTPS listener, which listens for incoming SSL or TLS connections on a specified port (usually port 443).

SSL/TLS Certificates: They deploy SSL/TLS certificates on the load balancer. These certificates are used to establish a secure connection and encrypt the traffic.

Secure Communication: When a client initiates a session, the HTTPS listener uses the SSL/TLS certificate to perform a handshake, establish a secure connection, and encrypt the data in transit.

Backend Encryption: Optionally, the load balancer can also be configured to encrypt traffic to the backend servers, ensuring end-to-end encryption.

Security Policies: The security team sets security policies on the load balancer to define the ciphers and protocols used for SSL/TLS, further enhancing security.

References:

AWS documentation on configuring end-to-end encryption in a load-balanced environment, which includes setting up an HTTPS listener1.

AWS documentation on creating an HTTPS listener for your Application Load Balancer, detailing the process and requirements2.

Security Command Center: Google Cloud’s Security Command Center is designed to provide centralized visibility into the security state of cloud resources1.

Native Scanners: It includes native scanners that assess the security state of virtual machines, containers, networks, and storage, along with identity and access management policies1.

Security Health Analytics: Security Health Analytics is a native scanner within the Security Command Center. It automatically scans your Google Cloud resources to help identify misconfigurations and compliance issues with Google security best practices2.

Functionality: Security Health Analytics can detect various misconfigurations and vulnerabilities, such as open storage buckets, instances without SSL/TLS, and resources without an enabled Web UI, which aligns with Tara Reid’s requirements2.

Exclusion of Other Options: The other options listed do not serve as native scanners within the Security Command Center for the purposes described in the question1.

References:

Google Cloud’s documentation on Security Command Center1.

Medium article on Google Cloud’s free vulnerability scanning with Security Command Center2.