Case Study

Achieved a 90% Reduction in Unauthorized Access by Integrating AWS IAM Roles for an EdTech Firm

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Industry 

EdTech

Expertise 

Amazon VPC, Amazon S3, AWS Lambda, Amazon ECR, AWS CloudTrail, Amazon SES

Offerings/solutions 

Significant reductions in security incidents, full data encryption, and increased resilience.

About the Client

Rocket Learning is a non-profit enhancing Early Childhood Development in India, supports Anganwadi workers and parents through accessible tech and content. At $1.50 per child per year, we’ve impacted 2.5M children, with 70% achieving readiness, surpassing the national rate of 50%.

Highlights

90%

Reduction in Unauthorized Access

95%

Decrease in Secret Exposure Risks

75%

Increase in Infrastructure Resilience

The Challenge

The client faced significant security issues within their Kubernetes environment, including inadequate access control, insufficient workload isolation due to weak namespace and RBAC policies, and network vulnerabilities from exposed public endpoints. Additionally, inconsistent data encryption raised compliance concerns, and fragmented monitoring systems hindered effective security event tracking and response.

Solutions

• AWS IAM roles with least-privilege access policies were created to reduce unauthorized access.
• Namespaces and RBAC policies were enforced to restrict access to sensitive workloads and reduce privilege escalation incidents.
• Private subnets and security groups were configured to limit inbound traffic to worker nodes, reducing the attack surface.
• Network policies were implemented to control inter-pod communication and decrease lateral movement attempts.
• Application Load Balancers with ingress and egress rules were applied to reduce exposure of sensitive services to the public internet.
• Data at rest and in transit across AWS services was encrypted using AWS KMS and SSL/TLS.
• Prometheus captured security-related metrics, and custom Grafana dashboards provided real-time insights into the security health of critical nodes.

The Results

Security enhancements led to a 90% reduction in unauthorized access, 85% fewer lateral movements, 100% encryption, and a 75% boost in resilience against breaches.

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