AWS News Blog
Tag: security
AWS adds passkey multi-factor authentication (MFA) for root and IAM users
Fortify your AWS account security with new passkey MFA and mandatory root user MFA. Experience seamless authentication while bolstering protection against unauthorized access.
Easily Manage Security Group Rules with the New Security Group Rule ID
At AWS, we tirelessly innovate to allow you to focus on your business, not its underlying IT infrastructure. Sometimes we launch a new service or a major capability. Sometimes we focus on details that make your professional life easier. Today, I’m happy to announce one of these small details that makes a difference: VPC security […]
Amazon Detective – Rapid Security Investigation and Analysis
Almost five years ago, I blogged about a solution that automatically analyzes AWS CloudTrail data to generate alerts upon sensitive API usage. It was a simple and basic solution for security analysis and automation. But demanding AWS customers have multiple AWS accounts, collect data from multiple sources, and simple searches based on regular expressions are […]
New – VPC Ingress Routing – Simplifying Integration of Third-Party Appliances
When I was delivering the Architecting on AWS class, customers often asked me how to configure an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud to enforce the same network security policies in the cloud as they have on-premises. For example, to scan all ingress traffic with an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) appliance or to use the same firewall […]
Identify Unintended Resource Access with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer
Today I get to share my favorite kind of announcement. It’s the sort of thing that will improve security for just about everyone that builds on AWS, it can be turned on with almost no configuration, and it costs nothing to use. We’re launching a new, first-of-its-kind capability called AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) […]