Category: Security, Identity, & Compliance

November 24, 2023: This post has been updated to show the differences between accessing data by way of an AWS service over public endpoints and over AWS PrivateLink (data access pattern 2). July 7, 2023: This post had been updated to use Amazon S3 Replication as an example in Data access pattern 3b section. Amazon […]

We are happy to announce that all AWS Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) endpoints have been updated to only accept a minimum of Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 connections. This ensures that our customers who run regulated workloads can meet FedRAMP compliance requirements that mandate a minimum of TLS 1.2 encryption for data in transit. Attempts […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently released PCKS #11 Library version 5.0 for AWS CloudHSM. This blog post describes the changes implemented in the new library. We also cover a simple encryption example with the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm in Galois/Counter Mode (GCM), dockerized, running on AWS Fargate. The primary change from the previous SDK […]

AWS Network Firewall is a managed service that makes it easy to provide fine-grained network protections for all of your Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) to ensure that your traffic is inspected, monitored, and logged. The firewall scales automatically with your network traffic, and offers built-in redundancies designed to provide high availability. AWS Network […]

January 2, 2024: We’ve updated this post to include the new failover Region feature. April 29, 2021: We’ve updated the order of the commands in Step 1. April 23, 2021: We’ve updated the commands in Steps 1 and 5 and in the “Additional Features” section. Using AWS Secrets Manager, you can more securely retrieve secrets […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released a new whitepaper, Classic intrusion analysis frameworks for AWS environments, to help organizations plan and implement a classic intrusion analysis framework for AWS environments. This whitepaper provides context that will help you understand how such frameworks are used and shows you, in detail, how to mitigate advanced attack tactics […]

September 28, 2023: IAM is incrementally adding support for actions from more services. For a list of services that report action last accessed information, see IAM action last accessed information services and actions. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) helps customers analyze access and achieve least privilege. When you are working on new permissions for […]

In this blog post, I show you how to use AWS IAM Access Analyzer programmatically to automate the detection of public access to your resources in an AWS account. I also show you how to work with the Access Analyzer API, create an analyzer on your account and call specific API functions from your code. […]

September 8, 2021: The post was updated to correct a typo about the CloudTrail log snippet. April 14, 2021: In the section “Use the SourceIdentity attribute with identity federation,” we updated “AWS SSO” to “sign-in endpoint” for clarity. AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS) now offers customers the ability to specify a unique identity attribute […]

Your approach to security governance, risk management, and compliance can be an enabler to digital transformation and business agility. As more organizations progress in their digital transformation journey—empowered by cloud computing—security organizations and processes cannot simply participate, they must lead in that transformation. Today, many customers establish a security foundation using technology-agnostic risk management frameworks—such […]