AWS Security Blog

Category: Security, Identity, & Compliance

Gain insights and knowledge at AWS re:Inforce 2023

I’d like to personally invite you to attend the Amazon Web Services (AWS) security conference, AWS re:Inforce 2023, in Anaheim, CA on June 13–14, 2023. You’ll have access to interactive educational content to address your security, compliance, privacy, and identity management needs. Join security experts, peers, leaders, and partners from around the world who are […]

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The National Intelligence Center of Spain and AWS collaborate to promote public sector cybersecurity

Spanish version » The National Intelligence Center and National Cryptological Center (CNI-CCN)—attached to the Spanish Ministry of Defense—and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have signed a strategic collaboration agreement to jointly promote cybersecurity and innovation in the public sector through AWS Cloud technology. Under the umbrella of this alliance, the CNI-CCN will benefit from the help […]

How to use Amazon GuardDuty and AWS WAF v2 to automatically block suspicious hosts

In this post, we’ll share an automation pattern that you can use to automatically detect and block suspicious hosts that are attempting to access your Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources. The automation will rely on Amazon GuardDuty to generate findings about the suspicious hosts, and then you can respond to those findings by programmatically updating […]

Automate the deployment of an NGINX web service using Amazon ECS with TLS offload in CloudHSM

Customers who require private keys for their TLS certificates to be stored in FIPS 140-2 Level 3 certified hardware security modules (HSMs) can use AWS CloudHSM to store their keys for websites hosted in the cloud. In this blog post, we will show you how to automate the deployment of a web application using NGINX […]

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Use backups to recover from security incidents

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 three years, AWS CIRT has supported customers with security events in their AWS accounts. These include the unauthorized use of AWS Identity […]

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Simplify management of Network Firewall rule groups with VPC managed prefix lists

In this blog post, we will show you how to use managed prefix lists to simplify management of your AWS Network Firewall rules and policies across your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) in the same AWS Region. AWS Network Firewall is a stateful, managed, network firewall and intrusion detection and prevention service for your […]

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How to use Amazon Macie to reduce the cost of discovering sensitive data

April 3, 2023: This post had been edited to get Figure 3 updated. Amazon Macie is a fully managed data security service that uses machine learning and pattern matching to discover and help protect your sensitive data, such as personally identifiable information (PII), payment card data, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) credentials. Analyzing large volumes […]

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New AWS Security Blog homepage

We’ve launched a new AWS Security Blog homepage! While we currently have no plans to deprecate our existing list-view homepage, we have recently launched a new, security-centered homepage to provide readers with more blog info and easy access to the rest of AWS Security. Please bookmark the new page, and let us know what you […]

How to use Google Workspace as an external identity provider for AWS IAM Identity Center

January 25, 2024: This post is no longer current. Please see this tutorial for the updated info. March 21, 2023: We modified the description of a permission set in the Introduction. March 8, 2023: We updated the post to reflect some name changes (G Suite is now Google Workspace; AWS Single Sign-On is now AWS […]

Establishing a data perimeter on AWS: Allow only trusted resources from my organization

Companies that store and process data on Amazon Web Services (AWS) want to prevent transfers of that data to or from locations outside of their company’s control. This is to support security strategies, such as data loss prevention, or to comply with the terms and conditions set forth by various regulatory and privacy agreements. On […]