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Comprehensive Financial and Security Plan

Cash Flow Visualization

Below is a breakdown of daily, monthly, and annual cash flows for better financial planning:

Time Frame Daily (USD) Monthly (USD) Annual (USD)
Total Cash Flow $24.70 $750.80 $9,009.60

High-Level Perspective

This financial plan provides a structured and cost-efficient deployment for your application infrastructure in the AWS eu-west-1 (Ireland) region. It integrates key components of scalability, security, and resilience to support critical workloads while maintaining budgetary control.

Core Highlights

  1. Scalability & Resilience: Single EC2 instance optimized for performance and costs, with an optional High Availability (HA) solution for redundancy.
  2. Cybersecurity Measures: AWS WAF, CloudWatch Logs, and secure S3 storage for logs safeguard the application from cyber threats while supporting compliance.
  3. Cost Optimization: Leverages AWS Graviton-based instances for better price-performance ratios.
  4. Resilience Tracking: AWS Resilience Hub ensures operational readiness and business continuity.

Cost Breakdown: Core Components

Component Daily (USD) Monthly (USD) Annual (USD)
Amazon EC2 (m7g.2xlarge) $8.37 $251.12 $3,013.44
Amazon RDS (db.m7g.large) $3.24 $97.26 $1,167.12
Elastic Load Balancer (ALB) $0.89 $26.58 $318.96
NAT Gateway $1.33 $39.84 $478.08
Data Transfer (100 GB) $0.30 $9.00 $108.00
AWS WAF $0.52 $15.60 $187.20
CloudWatch Logs & Alarms $0.59 $17.60 $211.20
Amazon S3 for Logs $0.01 $0.24 $2.88
AWS Resilience Hub $0.50 $15.00 $180.00
Security Services (Combined) $5.95 $178.56 $2,142.72
Total $24.70 $750.80 $9,009.60

Links to Core Components:

Security Assumptions and Costs for Basic Services

Below is a breakdown of daily, monthly, and annual costs for AWS security services based on typical usage patterns. These estimates include foundational security services that enhance your AWS account's overall security posture.

Service Daily (USD) Monthly (USD) Annual (USD)
Security Hub $1.69 $50.78 $609.36
Amazon Detective $1.01 $30.26 $363.12
Amazon Inspector $0.87 $26.04 $312.48
Key Management Service $0.77 $22.99 $275.88
AWS Config $0.65 $19.59 $235.08
Amazon GuardDuty $0.96 $28.90 $346.80
Total Security Costs $5.95 $178.56 $2,142.72

Links to Security Services:

Cybersecurity Enhancements via AWS Security Services

Core Features

  1. Threat Detection with GuardDuty:

    • Analyzes AWS logs (e.g., CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs) for suspicious activity.
    • Automatically integrates with Security Hub for unified threat visibility.
    • Benefit: Real-time alerts on potential threats.

  2. Vulnerability Scanning with Inspector:

    • Automatically assesses EC2 instances and container workloads for vulnerabilities.
    • Provides actionable findings for improving security posture.
    • Benefit: Continuous compliance with security best practices.

  3. Security Event Investigations with Detective:

    • Simplifies root cause analysis for suspicious activities flagged by GuardDuty.
    • Benefit: Faster resolution of security incidents with visual context.

  4. Configuration Management with AWS Config:

    • Tracks changes to resource configurations and ensures compliance with defined rules.
    • Benefit: Proactive compliance auditing and security enforcement.

  5. Centralized Visibility with Security Hub:

    • Aggregates findings from GuardDuty, Inspector, and Config into a single dashboard.
    • Provides AWS Foundational Security Best Practices checks.
    • Benefit: Unified security insights and automation.

  6. Data Protection with Key Management Service (KMS):

    • Provides encryption for data at rest and in transit.
    • Integrates with S3, EBS, RDS, and other AWS services.
    • Benefit: Secure encryption key storage and management.

Optional High Availability Solution

Time Frame Daily (USD) Monthly (USD) Annual (USD)
Total (HA Solution) $24.31 $729.36 $8,752.32

Conclusion

This financial plan balances scalability, cost-efficiency, and cybersecurity. The inclusion of EC2 and RDS costs complements the robust AWS security services. Optional HA ensures resilience for critical workloads requiring robust uptime guarantees while leveraging AWS security services for proactive threat detection and compliance monitoring.

Security Controls

The Citizen Intelligence Agency (CIA) project implements the following AWS Foundational Security Best Practices (FSBP) controls. These controls leverage AWS services to protect financial data, detect threats, and ensure compliance.

1. Foundational Security Services

AWS Config

  • Control: Config.1: AWS Config should be enabled
  • Description: AWS Config provides continuous monitoring of resource configurations and compliance checks. It is foundational for AWS Security Hub and other security services.
  • Implementation Steps: Enable AWS Config in all regions and configure compliance rules.
  • Learn More: What is AWS Config?

AWS Security Hub

2. Threat Detection and Monitoring

Amazon GuardDuty

3. Vulnerability Management

Amazon Inspector

Conclusion

These FSBP-aligned controls ensure the CIA project maintains robust security for financial operations, proactively addresses vulnerabilities, and aligns with industry best practices.