Category: Security, Identity, & Compliance

Twice a year, we like to share what’s been popular to let you know what everyone’s reading and so you don’t miss something interesting. One of the top posts so far this year has been the registration announcement for the re:Inforce conference that happened last week. We hope you attended or watched the keynote live […]

A big thank you to the attendees of the inaugural AWS re:Inforce conference for two successful days of cloud security learning. As you head home and look toward next steps for your organization (or if you weren’t able to attend and want to know what all the fuss was about), check out some of the […]

November 16, 2020: We’ve updated the CloudFormation template and the launch stack URL used in this solution. July 24, 2019: We’ve added a link to a GitHub repository that contains the stack content for this solution. Controlling outbound communication from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) to the internet is an important part of […]

AWS recently released the AWS Security Incident Response whitepaper, to help you understand the fundamentals of responding to security incidents within your cloud environment. The whitepaper reviews how to prepare your organization for detecting and responding to security incidents, explores the controls and capabilities at your disposal, provides topical examples, and outlines remediation methods that […]

Mark Ryland at the AWS Summit Berlin keynote In the weeks leading up to re:Inforce, we’ll share conversations we’ve had with people at AWS who will be presenting at the event so you can learn more about them and some of the interesting work that they’re doing. How long have you been at AWS and […]

You can use AWS Organizations to centrally govern and manage multiple accounts as you scale your AWS workloads. With AWS Organizations, central security administrators can use service control policies (SCPs) to establish permission guardrails that all IAM users and roles in the organization’s accounts adhere to. When teams and projects are just getting started, administrators […]

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) now offers the option for managing online root CAs and a full online PKI hierarchy. You can now host and manage your organization’s entire private certificate infrastructure in AWS. Supporting a full hierarchy expands AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority capabilities. CA administrators can use ACM […]

If you’re an AWS Directory Service administrator, you can reset your directory users’ passwords from the AWS console or the CLI when their passwords expire. However, you can improve your efficiency by reducing the number of requests for password resets. You can also help improve the security of your organization by having your users proactively […]

The first annual re:Inforce conference is one week away and with two full days of security, identity, and compliance learning ahead, I’m looking forward to the community building opportunities (such as Capture the Flag) and the hundreds of sessions that dive deep into how AWS services can help keep businesses secure in the cloud. The […]

Note from July 5, 2019: Added information about attribute-based access control (ABAC) to the “AWS features used in this approach” section. When organizations first adopt AWS, they have to make many decisions that will lay the foundation for their future footprint in the cloud. Part of this includes making decisions about the number of AWS […]