About Benevity
Benevity is a global platform that works with companies to make a positive social impact. Benevity’s software simplifies scaling corporate social responsibility programs, managing grant applications, and organizing volunteer efforts.
The Challenge
Benevity faced concerns over the security and standardization of their AWS environment. They wanted to further improve their monitoring and security posture to ensure that data was fully protected.
Additionally, Benevity sought to reduce accidental or excessive cloud spending on over-provisioned resources and needed to streamline the development and deployment of new compliance rules, while establishing a routine process for compliance reviews and updates.
Recognizing these governance gaps, Benevity turned to StratusGrid for support.
The Solution
StratusGrid implemented Service Control Policies (SCPs) and AWS Config Rules to create policies that enforced and monitored standards across AWS Organizations. The SCPs provided immediate benefits, acting as preventative rules for unauthorized access or resource deployment, with plans to tighten restrictions as unnecessary resources are identified and cleaned up.
By leveraging AWS Config, StratusGrid gave Benevity visibility into their compliance status, resource inventory, top five noncompliant rules, and accounts by resource count and noncompliance.
“This is a piece of work the DevOps team has been talking about doing for a couple years and never got to it. Working with you folks and getting it done in a number of weeks was really fantastic and you made our lives so much easier.” Nina d’Abadie AVP, Technology Operations.
The Results
Before working with StratusGrid, Benevity lacked visibility into their compliance across AWS resources. Now, they can easily track and manage compliance.
As Benevity continues to refine their policies, they expect ongoing improvements to their security posture, reducing the risk of unauthorized access. The continuous monitoring and enforcement will help maintain high compliance, ensuring all resources and operations adhere to governance standards.
Enhanced monitoring and reporting capabilities now allow Benevity to proactively identify and resolve potential issues, improving overall system health.
With AWS Config, the team can access critical compliance data more quickly and easily, simplifying the auditing process through consolidated reporting.
Lastly, Benevity now has comprehensive documentation outlining AWS Security Policies and Compliance Rules, as well as a guide for implementing future rules—enabling them to maintain and improve their AWS security independently.
StratusGrid: AWS Premier Tier Partner
Improving your AWS security, resource management, and reducing development time will increase compliance, efficiency, productivity, and reduce costs. When you begin to feel concern with cloud security, experiencing outages and failing deployments you need to consider modernizing your AWS environment.
StratusGrid can provide you with guidance and hands-on help to improve performance, security, development speed, automation, and result management.