A legal technology provider required a secure, scalable solution to protect sensitive legal data while ensuring compliance with CJIS, HIPAA, and SOC 2 standards. By deploying Cloud Storage Security’s Antivirus for Amazon S3, the company established real-time malware detection, secured high-volume data ingestion, and maintained data residency and regulatory control within its AWS environment.
Challenge
A legal technology provider managing large-scale document storage and processing required a comprehensive, secure, and scalable solution to protect sensitive legal data. The company serves both enterprise and government agency clients, supporting document management, client communication, contract lifecycle management, and business analytics.
Using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for storage and AWS Snowball for bulk data migration, the company ingests massive volumes of legal documents daily, making CJIS, HIPAA, and SOC 2 compliance critical.
While client-side antivirus protection was recommended, recurring security incidents underscored the need for an in-tenant scanning solution to detect and neutralize threats before files were processed or accessed by downstream users. To maintain security and compliance, the company required data separation to meet residency requirements, localized scanning with regular virus definition updates, and in-tenant deployment to ensure full control over security and regulatory adherence.
Primary Focus
- Advanced Malware Detection: Prevent threats before they compromise data integrity or disrupt legal workflows.
Secondary Focus
- Operational Efficiency: Scale seamlessly to process large data volumes, including terabyte-scale file migrations, without disrupting critical operations.
- Security & Compliance: Keep all scanning within the AWS environment to ensure CJIS, HIPAA, and SOC 2 adherence.
Solution
The company deployed Antivirus for Amazon S3, a serverless, high-throughput malware detection solution for large-scale AWS environments. It scans bulk data migrations via AWS Snowball without slowing ingestion and automatically scans newly uploaded files, preventing threats before they reach Amazon S3.
Ensuring CJIS, HIPAA, and SOC 2 compliance, the solution enabled secure data processing while maintaining data residency and security controls within the company’s AWS environment. By leveraging event-driven scanning, it provided real-time threat detection without impacting system performance.
Results: Security, Scalability & Compliance
- Real-Time Threat Detection & Seamless Integration:
- Identified and quarantined three malicious files in the first week, securing high-volume legal documents before processing.
- API-based scanning enabled real-time malware detection without disrupting AWS Snowball transfers.
- Efficiency Gains & Scalability:
- Processed terabyte-scale data ingestion without slowing transfers, automatically scaling to meet evolving security and compliance needs.
- Real-time alerts provided actionable insights, reducing time spent on root cause analysis while the CSS console provided actionable insights, saving months of engineering effort.
- Market Expansion & Strengthened Security:
- Enhanced security capabilities allowed the company to expand beyond mid-sized firms into enterprise markets, meeting the strict security expectations of CTOs and legal teams.
- Automated Compliance & Operational Resilience:
- Ensured CJIS, HIPAA, and SOC 2 compliance by scanning all files before processing within a secure AWS environment.
- Air-gapped deployment and strict bucket policies ensured infected files were tagged and inaccessible
Deployment & Success
Cloud Storage Security assisted in deploying Antivirus for Amazon S3, configuring scanning policies, and establishing workflows for handling infected files. The evaluation confirmed the solution’s ability to scan large data volumes without disrupting AWS Snowball transfers or business operations.
Within one month, the company fully integrated the solution into its customer onboarding and document management workflows. By leveraging S3 event-based scanning, the company ensured real-time malware detection for bulk data migrations and newly uploaded files, preventing threats before they reached Amazon S3.
Conclusion
By deploying Cloud Storage Security’s Antivirus for Amazon S3, the company fortified security, ensured compliance, and optimized high-volume data processing. The solution provided real-time threat detection, automated security policies, and seamless AWS integration, safeguarding sensitive legal data without operational disruptions.
With Cloud Storage Security’s support, the company now operates a scalable, resilient security solution, ready to meet evolving compliance demands and expand into enterprise markets.
Moving Forward with CSS
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