Automate security compliance and remediation across organizations

This article discusses Fortra's innovative solution for automating security compliance and remediation across multi-account AWS environments using various AWS services.

• Addresses challenges of managing security compliance in large organizations with thousands of AWS accounts
• Leverages AWS Config, Security Hub, Systems Manager, Lambda, and DynamoDB for comprehensive compliance management
• Implements centralized security tooling with key features:
  • Automated AWS Config rule deployment
  • Custom remediation using Lambda
  • Tagging-based exception handling
  • Comprehensive compliance reporting
• Achieved significant improvements:
• Reduced remediation time from 72 hours to minutes
• Automated management across 200+ AWS accounts
• 100% accuracy in applying security controls

The solution provides a scalable framework for managing security compliance, balancing automation with flexible exception handling.