Category: Technical How-to

January 31, 2025: This post was revised to update several paragraphs in the section Scenario 1: Automated investigations. Uncovering  AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users and roles potentially involved in a security event can be a challenging task, requiring security analysts to gather and analyze data from various sources, and determine the full scope […]

In this blog post, I take you on a deep dive into Amazon GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring for EC2 instances and key capabilities that are part of the feature. Throughout the post, I provide insights around deployment strategies for Runtime Monitoring and detail how it can deliver security value by detecting threats against your Amazon Elastic […]

September 10, 2025: We’ve updated this post to reflect changes in suggested mitigation approaches. December 16, 2024: We’ve updated this post to reflect changes in suggested mitigation approaches. If you have a customer facing application, you might want to enable self-service sign-up, which allows potential customers on the internet to create an account and gain […]

In this blog post, I dive into a cross-Region replication (CRR) solution for card payment keys, with a specific focus on the powerful capabilities of AWS Payment Cryptography, showing how your card payment keys can be securely transported and stored. In today’s digital landscape, where online transactions have become an integral part of our daily […]

On November 1, 2023, the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) issued its Second Amendment (the Amendment) to its Cybersecurity Requirements for Financial Services Companies adopted in 2017, published within Section 500 of 23 NYCRR 500 (the Cybersecurity Requirements; the Cybersecurity Requirements as amended by the Amendment, the Amended Cybersecurity Requirements). In the introduction […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers operating in a regulated industry, such as the financial services industry (FSI) or healthcare, are required to meet their regulatory and compliance obligations, such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) or Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA). AWS offers regulated customers tools, guidance and third-party audit reports […]

November 20, 2025: We updated this post to include a new queuing component in the solution that accommodates ingestion of large objects into the malware-protected S3 bucket. May 28, 2025: In the section Extend the solution, we fixed a typo in the code related to deleting source objects. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is […]

In today’s digital landscape, managing secrets, such as passwords, API keys, tokens, and other credentials, has become a critical task for organizations. For some Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers, centralized management of secrets can be a robust and efficient solution to address this challenge. In this post, we delve into using AWS data protection services […]

Mitigate risks like data exposure, model exploits, and ethical lapses when deploying Amazon Bedrock chatbots. Implement guardrails, encryption, access controls, and governance frameworks.

Amazon Cognito is a customer identity and access management (CIAM) service that can scale to millions of users. Although the Cognito documentation details which multi-tenancy models are available, determining when to use each model can sometimes be challenging. In this blog post, we’ll provide guidance on when to use each model and review their pros […]