AWS Security Blog
Category: Security, Identity, & Compliance
AWS re:Invent 2019 security guide: sessions, workshops, and chalk talks
With re:Invent 2019 just weeks away, the excitement is building and we’re looking forward to seeing you all soon! If you’re attending re:Invent with the goal of improving your organization’s cloud security operations, here are some highlights from the re:Invent 2019 session catalog. Reserved seating is now open, so get your seats in advance for […]
Accept an ANDB Addendum for all accounts within your AWS Organization
For customers who use AWS to store or process personal information covered by the Australian Privacy Act 1988, I’m excited to announce that you can now accept a single AWS Australian Notifiable Data Breach Addendum (ANDB Addendum) for all accounts within your AWS Organization. Once accepted, all current and future accounts created or added to […]
AWS Security Profiles: Greg McConnel, Senior Manager, Security Specialists Team
In the weeks leading up to re:Invent 2019, 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 […]
Your AWS re:Invent 2019 guide to AWS Identity sessions, workshops, and chalk talks
November 6, 2019: Post updated to include four new sessions — SEC316, SEC317, OIG304, and ACT17. AWS re:Invent 2019 is coming fast! You’ll soon need to prioritize your sessions. Here’s a list of AWS Identity sessions, workshops, and chalk talks at AWS re:Invent 2019. If you haven’t registered yet for re:Invent, here’s a template you […]
AWS Security Profile: Ron Cully, Principal Product Manager, AWS Identity
September 12, 2022: This blog post has been updated to reflect the new name of AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) – AWS IAM Identity Center. Read more about the name change here. 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 […]
AWS achieves FedRAMP JAB High and Moderate Provisional Authorization across 18 services in the AWS US East/West and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
September 9, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. It’s my pleasure to announce that we’ve expanded the number of AWS services that customers can use to run sensitive and highly regulated workloads in the federal government space. This expansion of our FedRAMP program marks a 28.6% increase in […]
Updated whitepaper available: “Navigating GDPR Compliance on AWS”
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR) safeguards EU citizens’ fundamental right to privacy and to personal data protection. In order to make local regulations coherent and homogeneous, the GDPR introduces and defines stringent new standards in terms of compliance, security and data protection. The updated version of our Navigating GDPR Compliance on […]
AWS Security Profile: Byron Cook, Director of the AWS Automated Reasoning Group
Byron Cook leads the AWS Automated Reasoning Group, which automates proof search in mathematical logic and builds tools that provide AWS customers with provable security. Byron has pushed boundaries in this field, delivered real-world applications in the cloud, and fostered a sense of community amongst its practitioners. In recognition of Byron’s contributions to cloud security […]
How to migrate symmetric exportable keys from AWS CloudHSM Classic to AWS CloudHSM
In August 2017, we announced the “new” AWS CloudHSM service, which had a lot of improvements over AWS CloudHSM Classic (for clarity in this post I will refer to the services as New CloudHSM and CloudHSM Classic). These advantages in security, scalability, usability, and economy, included FIPS 140-2 Level 3 certification, fully managed high availability […]
Tips for building a cloud security operating model in the financial services industry
My team helps financial services customers understand how AWS services operate so that you can incorporate AWS into your existing processes and security operations centers (SOCs). As soon as you create your first AWS account for your organization, you’re live in the cloud. So, from day one, you should be equipped with certain information: you […]