Category: Security, Identity, & Compliance

In the weeks leading up to re:Invent, 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 what do you do in your current role? […]

Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM), a U.S. Department of Homeland Security cybersecurity program, is gaining new visibility as part of the federal government’s overall focus on securing its information and networks. How an agency performs against CDM will soon be regularly reported in the updated Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) scorecard. That’s in […]

In the weeks leading up to re:Invent, 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 what do you do in your current role? […]

In the weeks leading up to re:Invent, 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 what do you do in your current role? […]

In the weeks leading up to re:Invent, 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 what do you do in your current role? […]

August 31, 2021: AWS KMS is replacing the term customer master key (CMK) with AWS KMS key and KMS key. The concept has not changed. To prevent breaking changes, AWS KMS is keeping some variations of this term. More info. March 4, 2021: AWS Secrets Manager has launched a new feature to help you easily […]

Seventy-three. That’s the number of AWS services now available to our customers under our System and Organizational Controls (SOC) 1, 2, and 3 audits, with 11 additional services included during this most recent audit cycle. The SOC reports are now available to you on demand in the AWS Management Console. The SOC 3 report can […]

In the weeks leading up to re:Invent, 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 what do you do in your current role? […]

I’ve conducted more security audits and reviews than I can comfortably count, and I’ve found that these reviews can be surprisingly open to interpretation (as much as they try not to be). Many companies use spreadsheets to explain and limit business risks, with an annual review to confirm the continued suitability of their controls. However, […]

Recently, AWS enabled tags on IAM principals (users and roles). The main benefit of this new feature is that you’ll be able to author a single policy to grant access to individual resources and you’ll no longer need to update your policies for each new resource that you add. In other words, you can now […]