A web company is looking to implement an intrusion detection and prevention system into their deployed VPC.
This platform should have the ability to scale to thousands of instances running inside of the VPC.
How should they architect their solution to achieve these goals?
A.
Configure an instance with monitoring software and the elastic network interface (ENI) set to promiscuous
mode packet sniffing to see an traffic across the VPC.
B.
Create a second VPC and route all traffic from the primary application VPC through the second VPC where
the scalable virtualized IDS/IPS platform resides.
C.
Configure servers running in the VPC using the host-based ‘route’ commands to send all traffic through the
platform to a scalable virtualized IDS/IPS.
D.
Configure each host with an agent that collects all network traffic and sends that traffic to the IDS/IPS
platform for inspection.
B?
http://www.aiotestking.com/amazon/how-should-they-architect-their-solution-to-achieve-these-goals/
They picked B and D, depends on who you talk to.
IPS/IDS should be in front of the device not behind it. That’s why I pick B.
If you collected all traffic from thousands of instances and sent it to a single instance, it’s going to have problems. The IDS/IPS needs to be scalable, which only B has.