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In the telecommunications industry, sensitive authentication and user data are typically received through mobile voice and keypads, and companies are responsible for protecting the data obtained through these channels. The increasing use of voice-driven interactive voice response (IVR) has resulted in a need to provide solutions that can protect user data that is gathered from […]

February 21, 2023: We’ve updated the CREATE TABLE DDL to add the new originType field introduced as part of the Automated Sensitive Data Discovery feature of Macie. Amazon Macie is a fully managed data security service that uses machine learning and pattern matching to help you discover and protect sensitive data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). With […]

Greetings from the AWS Customer Incident Response Team (CIRT)! AWS CIRT is dedicated to supporting customers during active security events on the customer side of the AWS Shared Responsibility Model. Over the past year, AWS CIRT has responded to hundreds of such security events, including the unauthorized use of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) […]

March 29, 2023: The post had been updated to notify customers that the Automated Security Response on AWS v2.0.0 now supports consolidated control findings. Currently, AWS Security Hub identifies controls and generates control findings in the context of security standards. Security Hub is aiming to release two new features in the first quarter of 2023 […]

March 15, 2023: We’ve updated this post to incorporate a section to investigate VPC flow logs. In part 1 of this of this two-part series, How to detect security issues in Amazon EKS cluster using Amazon GuardDuty, we walked through a real-world observed security issue in an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster and […]

AWS recently announced that AWS Organizations now supports AWS CloudFormation. This feature allows you to create and update AWS accounts, organizational units (OUs), and policies within your organization by using CloudFormation templates. With this latest integration, you can efficiently codify and automate the deployment of your resources in AWS Organizations. You can now manage your AWS organization […]

November 13, 2024: This post has been updated with guidance on how to use resource control policies (RCPs) and the aws:SourceOrgID condition key to establish your organization’s identity perimeter. As described in an earlier blog post, Establishing a data perimeter on AWS, Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a set of capabilities you can use to […]

In this two-part blog post, we’ll discuss how to detect and investigate security issues in an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster with Amazon GuardDuty and Amazon Detective. Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is a managed service that you can use to run and scale container workloads by using Kubernetes in the AWS […]

November 21, 2022: We updated this post to reflect the fact that AWS Secrets Manager now supports rotating secrets as often as every four hours. AWS Secrets Manager helps you manage, retrieve, and rotate database credentials, API keys, and other secrets throughout their lifecycles. You can specify a rotation window for your secrets, allowing you […]

As Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security Solutions Architects, we get to talk to customers of all sizes and industries about how they want to improve their security posture and get visibility into their AWS resources. This blog post identifies the top three most commonly used Security Hub usage patterns and describes how you can use […]