AWS News Blog
Category: Security, Identity, & Compliance
Launch – Hello Amazon Macie: Automatically Discover, Classify, and Secure Content at Scale
This blog is out of date. Please refer here for the updated info. When Jeff and I heard about this service, we both were curious on the meaning of the name Macie. Of course, Jeff being a great researcher looked up the name Macie and found that the name Macie has two meanings. It has […]
AWS HIPAA Eligibility Update (July 2017) – Eight Additional Services
It is time for an update on our on-going effort to make AWS a great host for healthcare and life sciences applications. As you can see from our Health Customer Stories page, Philips, VergeHealth, and Cambia (to choose a few) trust AWS with Protected Health Information (PHI) and Personally Identifying Information (PII) as part of […]
Amazon EC2 Systems Manager Patch Manager now supports Linux
Hot on the heels of some other great AWS Systems Manager updates is another vital enhancement: the ability to use Patch Manager on Linux instances! We launched Patch Manager with SSM at re:Invent in 2016 and Linux support was a commonly requested feature. Starting today we can support patch manager in: Amazon Linux 2014.03 and […]
Prepare for the OWASP Top 10 Web Application Vulnerabilities Using AWS WAF and Our New White Paper
Are you aware of the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) and the work that they do to improve the security of web applications? Among many other things, they publish a list of the 10 most critical application security flaws, known as the OWASP Top 10. The release candidate for the 2017 version contains a […]
Protect Web Sites & Services Using Rate-Based Rules for AWS WAF
AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall) helps to protect your application from many different types of application-layer attacks that involve requests that are malicious or malformed. As I showed you when I first wrote about this service (New – AWS WAF), you can define rules that match cross-site scripting, IP address, SQL injection, size, or content […]
Cloud Directory Update – Support for Typed Links
Earlier this year I told you about Cloud Directory, our cloud-native directory for hierarchical data and told you how it was designed to store large amounts of strongly typed hierarchical data. Because Cloud Directory can scale to store hundreds of millions of objects, it is a great fit for many kinds of cloud and mobile […]
Amazon Inspector Update – Assessment Reporting, Proxy Support, and More
Amazon Inspector is our automated security assessment service. It analyzes the behavior of the applications that you run in AWS and helps you to identify potential security issues. In late 2015 I introduced you to Inspector and showed you how to use it (Amazon Inspector – Automated Security Assessment Service). You start by using tags […]
AWS Organizations – Policy-Based Management for Multiple AWS Accounts
Over the years I have found that many of our customers are managing multiple AWS accounts. This situation can arise for several reasons. Sometimes they adopt AWS incrementally and organically, with individual teams and divisions making the move to cloud computing on a decentralized basis. Other companies grow through mergers and acquisitions and take on […]