AWS Security Blog

Category: Artificial Intelligence

Enabling AI sovereignty on AWS

Cloud and AI are transforming industries and societies at unprecedented speed, from accelerating research and enhancing customer experiences to optimizing business processes and enriching public services. At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we believe that for the cloud and AI to reach their full potential, customers need control over their data and choices for how and […]

New compliance guide available: ISO/IEC 42001:2023 on AWS

We have released our latest compliance guide, ISO/IEC 42001:2023 on AWS, which provides practical guidance for organizations designing and operating an Artificial Intelligence Management System (AIMS) using AWS services. As organizations deploy AI and generative AI workloads in the cloud, aligning with globally recognized standards such as ISO/IEC 42001:2023 becomes an important step toward strengthening […]

Five ways to use Kiro and Amazon Q to strengthen your security posture

A Monday morning security alert flags unauthorized access attempts, security group misconfigurations, and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy violations. Your team needs answers fast. Security teams are using Kiro and Amazon Q Developer to handle repetitive tasks—scanning resources, drafting policies, and researching Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs)—so engineers can focus on risk decisions […]

Security posture improvement in the AI era

It’s only been a few weeks since Anthropic announced the Claude Mythos Preview model and launched Project Glasswing with AWS and other leading organizations. This has generated a lot of discussion about the future of cybersecurity and what the ever-increasing capabilities of foundation models mean to organizations. As AWS CISO Amy Herzog pointed out in […]

Designing trust and safety into Amazon Bedrock powered applications

Generative AI brings promising innovation, transforming how individuals and organizations approach everything from customer service to content creation and more. As AI continues to expand its capabilities, organizations are increasingly focused on how they can integrate the responsible AI concepts into the development lifecycle of their AI applications. Research from Accenture and Amazon Web Services […]

Building AI defenses at scale: Before the threats emerge

At AWS, we’ve spent decades developing processes and tools that enable us to defend millions of customers simultaneously, wherever they operate around the world. AI has been an extremely helpful addition to the automation our security and threat intelligence teams do every day, and we’re still early in this journey. Our AI-powered log analysis system […]

Accelerate investigations with AWS Security Incident Response AI-powered capabilities

If you’ve ever spent hours manually digging through AWS CloudTrail logs, checking AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions, and piecing together the timeline of a security event, you understand the time investment required for incident investigation. Today, we’re excited to announce the addition of AI-powered investigation capabilities to AWS Security Incident Response that automate […]

Figure 1 - The Agentic AI Security Scoping Matrix

The Agentic AI Security Scoping Matrix: A framework for securing autonomous AI systems

As generative AI became mainstream, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched the Generative AI Security Scoping Matrix to help organizations understand and address the unique security challenges of foundation model (FM)-based applications. This framework has been adopted not only by AWS customers across the globe, but also widely referenced by organizations such as OWASP, CoSAI, and […]

Securing Amazon Bedrock API keys: Best practices for implementation and management

Recently, AWS released Amazon Bedrock API keys to make calls to the Amazon Bedrock API. In this post, we provide practical security guidance on effectively implementing, monitoring, and managing this new option for accessing Amazon Bedrock to help you build a comprehensive strategy for securing these keys. We also provide guidance on the larger family […]

Protect your generative AI applications against encoding-based attacks with Amazon Bedrock Guardrails

Amazon Bedrock Guardrails provides configurable safeguards to help you safely build generative AI applications at scale. It offers integrated safety and privacy protections that work across multiple foundation models (FMs), including models available in Amazon Bedrock and models hosted outside Amazon Bedrock from other providers. Bedrock Guardrails currently offers six key safeguards to help prevent […]