AWS achieves an AAA Pinakes rating for Spanish financial entities

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce that we have achieved an AAA rating from Pinakes. The scope of this qualification covers 166 services in 25 global AWS Regions.

The Spanish banking association Centro de Cooperación Interbancaria (CCI) developed Pinakes, a rating framework intended to manage and monitor the cybersecurity controls of service providers that Spanish financial entities depend on. The requirements arise from the European Banking Authority guidelines (EBA/GL/2019/02).

Pinakes evaluates the cybersecurity levels of service providers through 1,315 requirements across 4 categories (confidentiality, integrity, availability of information, and general) and 14 domains:

• Information security management program
• Facility security
• Third-party management
• Normative compliance
• Network controls
• Access control
• Incident management
• Encryption
• Secure development
• Monitoring
• Malware protection
• Resilience
• Systems operation
• Staff safety

Each requirement is associated to a rating level (A+, A, B, C, D), ranging from the highest A+ (provider has implemented the most diligent measures and controls for cybersecurity management) to the lowest D (minimum security requirements are met).

An independent third-party auditor has verified the implementation status for each section. As a result, AWS has been qualified with A ratings for Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability, getting an overall rating of AAA.

Our Spanish financial customers can refer to the AWS Pinakes rating to confirm that the AWS control environment is appropriately designed and implemented. By receiving an AAA, AWS demonstrates our commitment to meet the heightened security expectations for cloud service providers set by the CCI. The full evaluation report will be published on AWS Artifact upon request. Pinakes participants who are AWS customers can contact their AWS account manager to request access to it.

As always, we value your feedback and questions. Reach out to the AWS Compliance team through the Contact Us page. To learn more about our other compliance and security programs, see AWS Compliance Programs.

 
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