AWS Control Tower vs. WithSecure Cloud Protection for Salesforce

We were wanting to prove the concept of a low touch process for quickly spinning up boilerplate AWS environments. We were able to get started quickly and to ensure that the AWS Well-Architected Framework principles were followed - at least upfront - however, we found that for our use case and expertise level it ultimately wasn't a fit. We have the skills on our team to manage more of this on our own. My recommendation would be contingent on what skills are already available on your team: if you can "do it yourself" you might as well so that you don't pay for resources you don't need and you have finer grain control over what's created.

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This recommendation of F-Secure Cloud Protection for Salesforce is due to the fact that for about 2 years I have been using this protection tool to scan every document my clients download or send me. I have the necessary experience to know that this tool is the one you can ensure safety with quick scans and I always try to recommend it to everyone.

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• Easily create new AWS accounts.
• Easily secure and manage AWS accounts.
• Landing zone with SSO is a huge win for larger teams.

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• Scheduled scans are a highly important function to prevent our important files from being damaged from all threats.
• The reports are another positive point because it shows us exactly all the details.
• Threat analysis is robust and ensures security.

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• The AWS SSO GUI is not very intuitive and determining how to apply policies to users without creating redundant logins has been a challenge.
• The default guardrails do not fully encompass all the security checks that we needed.
• There does not appear to be any way to control roles at the IAM level from the control tower account through the GUI.
• Some features on AWS accounts still require logging into the individual account with the root user and cannot be done from AWS Control Tower.

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• It is software that helps keep files, documents or any information safe, has everything in its place and has the necessary tools to fight threats.

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There is no way to easily close an AWS account whether it was created manually or via the AWS Control Tower. It takes too many steps to close it vs to provision a new AWS account

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Using AWS Systems Manager and other slightly lower level components has been helpful for us to manage parts of our AWS presence at a more granular level than AWS Control Tower was designed for. It's not at all an apples-to-apples comparison as they solve different use cases, but for us, the use case associated with AWS Systems Manager was a better fit for our specific needs and skillsets. We did not need everything that AWS Control Tower was doing for us.

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• Less time manually deploying accounts which was error prone.
• Central logging allowed us to have 1 place to view logs.

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• The security of files and documents has no price. F-Secure Cloud Protection for Salesforce is a necessity in the company because we manage to avoid threats with powerful analysis and scans in real-time, or in an automated way.

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