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Cybersecurity teams are often made up of different functions. Typically, these can include Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC), Security Architecture, Assurance, and Security Operations, to name a few. Each function has its own specific tasks, but works towards a common goal—to partner with the rest of the business and help teams ship and run workloads […]

Amazon Inspector is an automated vulnerability management service that continually scans Amazon Web Services (AWS) workloads for software vulnerabilities and unintended network exposure. Amazon Inspector currently supports vulnerability reporting for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances and container images stored in Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR). With the emergence of Docker in 2013, […]

AWS Security Hub is a cloud security posture management service that you can use to perform security best practice checks, aggregate alerts, and automate remediation. Security Hub has out-of-the-box integrations with many AWS services and over 60 partner products. Security Hub centralizes findings across your AWS accounts and supported AWS Regions into a single delegated […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released a new whitepaper to help Canadian defense and security customers accelerate their use of the AWS Cloud. The new guide, Using AWS in the Context of Canada’s Controlled Goods Program (CGP), continues our efforts to help AWS customers navigate the regulatory expectations of the Government of Canada’s Controlled Goods […]

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer provides many tools to help you set, verify, and refine permissions. One part of IAM Access Analyzer—policy validation—helps you author secure and functional policies that grant the intended permissions. Now, I’m excited to announce that AWS has updated the IAM console experience for role trust policies to […]

April 16, 2024: Updated with information on AWS CloudTrail logging for roles that are still using the implicit trust behavior, and additional sample queries to find these roles. June 15, 2023: Enforcement has changed from a fixed date to an automated process starting June 30, 2023 that removed roles based on observed role assumption behavior. […]

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now supports message signatures based on Secure Hash Algorithm 256 (SHA256) hashing. Amazon SNS signs the messages that are delivered from your Amazon SNS topic so that subscribed HTTP endpoints can verify the authenticity of the messages. In this blog post, we will show you how to enable message […]

October 18, 2022: This blog post was updated and the title was changed to reflect the updated info. AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) is a service that lets you efficiently provision, manage, and deploy public and private SSL/TLS certificates for use with AWS services and your internal connected resources. Public certificates that you request through ACM […]

February 27, 2023: We’ve updated question and answer #3 on this blog post. October 7, 2022: This blog post has been updated to include a Frequently Asked Questions section at the end. September 30, 2022: This blog post has been updated to include the addition of the CN=Starfield Services Root Certificate Authority – G2,O=Starfield Technologies\, […]

October 13, 2022: This post had been updated with diagram of Figure 1: Outbound internet access through Network Firewall from Amazon EKS worker nodes modified. This blog post shows how to set up an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster such that the applications hosted on the cluster can have their outbound internet access […]