This document summarizes a presentation on cloud server security given by Zohar Alon, co-founder and CEO of Dome9. The presentation covered who is responsible for cloud security, the need for multi-factor authentication and web application firewalls, logging and analyzing logs, and using firewalls to lock down and automate security across cloud servers. Dome9 provides a solution to automate and centralize security management across cloud servers.

1. CloudExpo Europe – London, January 2013
The Practitioners Guide to
Cloud Security
London, January 2013
Zohar Alon
@zoharalon
Co-Founder & CEO
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2. Me, and my company
Zohar Alon – Co-Founder & CEO
Creator of Check Point’s Provider-1 & SP product lines
Over 20 years of security & IT experience.
Cloud Server Security Management
Automate and centralize security across an unlimited
number of cloud, dedicated, and virtual private servers
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3. What’s this?
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4. 1 day and 86,000
attempts later…
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5. There are more than 30 million
Cloud, VPS & Dedicated Servers
Most of these servers are vulnerable to attack
– Admins leave ports open to connect to their servers
– Hackers use these same open ports to gain access
Most of these servers’ security is unmanageable
– Sprawled across multiple private & public clouds
– Operating systems are a virtual buffet
Most of the ‘available’ security doesn’t work
– Service providers lack expertise & focus to build it
– Security vendors have business models that don’t fit
and/or technology that doesn’t migrate and scale
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6. Who’s responsible for security?
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7. The Practitioners Guide
Part 1 – Responsibility
• Most don’t know who’s Who’s Responsible?
responsible for cloud security
– 42% say they wouldn’t know
if their cloud was hacked 33% 31%
– 39% think their provider
would tell them
• Security is everybody’s 36%
responsibility
– accept and share it!
• Security is your responsibility
– Deal with it! Customer Provider Both
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8. The Practitioners Guide
Part 2 – Authentication
• If Anyone can login
consider Multi-Factor
authentication to
harden access
• Simple mobile app
integration, w/ QR
code support & SMS
backup
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11. The Practitioners Guide
Part 3 - WAF
• WAF: Web Application Firewall
– Protects Web services, sites and applications
– Monitor the requests to the web layer
– Brute-force Login, Span Bots, SQL injections, etc.
• Easy to enable – No Install!
– Provides added security layer w/o overhead
• Every Web App Will Use one
– CloudFlare, Incapsula or Akamai
– Bonus I – site is faster
– Bonus II – DDOS mitigation capabilities
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12. The Practitioners Guide
Part 4 – Log
• You saw how many insights we get from the
logs. You need to store and analyze them.
• We use several vendors for this – each for a
different use-case:
– Splunk & SplunkStorm
– SumoLogic
– Loggly
– LogEntries
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13. The Practitioners Guide
Part 5 – Firewall
• Take Control on your security policies
– You do much more when it comes to the office firewall
• Close All (admin) Ports – Open Dynamically
– Open them only for whom, and for as long as is needed.
• Don’t rely on static scopes
– Too much management overhead and risk.
• Aggregate & Centralize firewall management
– Across regions, providers and applications
• At Dome9, we eat our own dog food
– On Amazon, Verison’s Terrermark and Rackspace
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14. What happened here?
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15. Dome9: How it Works
Automated Cloud Server Security
 Manage OS firewall (via
Agent) and virtual firewall
(via API) across all cloud
servers
 Enable on-demand, time-
based secure access leases
per server, source & time
 Automatically close server
access when lease expires
 Stop attackers from
targeting open admin ports
via brute force attacks and
exploits
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16. Dome9 Central
Simplified Security Management
Time-Based Controls
1-Click Secure Access
Multi-Cloud Management
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17. Wrap Up
① Take Responsibility
② Harden Authentication
③ Use a Web Application Firewall
④ Log, Log, Log, Log, Log… and Analyze
⑤ Lockdown and Automate the Server Firewalls…
with Dome9! 
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18. Q&A
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19. Thank You!
Zohar Alon, Zohar@dome9.com
www.dome9.com
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20. References and Links
• Firewall Management Service:
– http://www.dome9.com/
– https://secure.dome9.com/account/register?code=ecommerce
• MyDigipass 2 Factor Authentication Service:
– https://www.mydigipass.com/
• Log Management Services:
– Splunk Storm Service - https://www.splunkstorm.com/
– Loggly - http://loggly.com/
– LogEntries - https://logentries.com/
• WAF Services:
– CloudFlare - https://www.cloudflare.com/
– Incapsula - http://www.incapsula.com/
• Cloud Security Study:
http://www.dome9.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Ponemon-Cloud-Security-Study.pdf
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