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Category: Learning Levels

AWS refreshes ProcessUnity Global Risk Exchange assessment to enhance customer’s third-party due diligence

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce renewal of the AWS ProcessUnity Global Risk Exchange assessment. This validated assessment report helps customers perform effective cloud supplier due diligence on AWS and enhances their third-party risk management process. What is the AWS ProcessUnity Global Risk Exchange assessment Many customers use third-party cyber risk management (TPCRM) […]

Digital sovereignty at re:Invent 2026: Sessions you won’t want to miss

AWS re:Invent returns to Las Vegas for cloud and AI’s biggest week from November 30–December 4, 2026. This year we have over 2,200 sessions, 70 percent of which are interactive, led by experts from Amazon Web Services (AWS), our customers, and our partners. With that much to choose from, we’ve pulled together the sessions built […]

Help defend against memory poisoning in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with multi-layer write validation

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory helps AI agents maintain context across sessions through persistent short-term and long-term memory. Because memory content is automatically retrieved and injected into future conversations, the integrity of what gets written to memory directly shapes future agent behavior, which makes the write path a valuable control point to strengthen. AgentCore already provides […]

Simplify cross-partition access with AWS IAM outbound identity federation

You can now use tokens from AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) outbound federation to assume roles in other Amazon Web Services (AWS) partitions. When your workloads run across AWS partitions such as Commercial, China, GovCloud (US), and European Sovereign Cloud, a workload in one partition might need to access resources or communicate with AWS […]

Addressing protocol security gaps in multi-tenant Kubernetes

Protocols like Android Debug Bridge (ADB) and Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC), by default, use unencrypted channels for network communications and don’t support enterprise authentication mechanisms like JSON Web Tokens (JWTs). In a multi-tenant Kubernetes cluster—including Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)—pods can reach other tenants’ open ports by default unless you configure network policies to […]

Introducing AWS account access manager: IAM role flexibility with centralized workforce access

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is introducing account access manager, a flexible new way to manage workforce access to your Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts. This combines the IAM role flexibility your teams already rely on, delivered through the centralized federation of AWS IAM Identity Center, with user-level visibility built-in. Account access manager streamlines […]

Beyond DKIM key rotation: understanding email replay attacks

As the email administrator for your organization’s domain, you receive a Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC) aggregate report showing email passing DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) verification as though it came from your domain, sent from IP addresses you don’t recognize to recipients you didn’t contact. To clear the issue, you rotate your DKIM […]

Best practices for integrating IAM Roles Anywhere with your PKI

Using temporary credentials is a security best practice to reduce the risk from credentials getting compromised. With AWS IAM Roles Anywhere, now your workloads outside of Amazon Web Services (AWS) will be able to access AWS resources by obtaining temporary security credentials in AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). IAM Roles Anywhere relies on public […]

Managing identity source transition for AWS IAM Identity Center

October 20, 2026: This post was republished to reflect the new migration capability from Active Directory to an external identity provider (IdP) or the Identity Center directory, now available in IAM Identity Center. September 2, 2026: This post was republished to include Active Directory migration strategies and automation for permission sets. AWS IAM Identity Center […]

Part 2 – Cybersecurity journeys: What even is this job?

If you’ve ever looked at a list of cybersecurity jobs and felt like none of them fit you, you might just be looking at a short list. Most career guides cover the same few roles, like the analyst watching alerts or the pen tester (penetration tester, someone hired to legally break into systems to find […]