Category: Security, Identity, & Compliance

Just over a year ago, on July 1, 2019, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority’s (APRA’s) Prudential Standard CPS 234 Information Security became effective. This standard is a set of legally enforceable information security requirements for APRA-regulated entities. CPS 234 aims to: “…ensure that an APRA regulated entity takes measures to be resilient against information security […]

In this post, we discuss how to implement the operating system security requirements defined by the Defence Information Systems Agency (DISA) Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs). As an Amazon Web Services (AWS) customer, you can use Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) published by AWS or APN partners. These AMIs, which are owned and published by AWS, […]

In this post, I will show you how to use AWS Lambda to automate PCI DSS (v3.2.1) evidence generation, and daily log review to assist with your ongoing PCI DSS activities. We will specifically be looking at AWS CloudTrail Logs stored centrally in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) (which is also a Well-Architected Security […]

In November 2019, Amazon launched a new version of AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF) that offers a richer and easier to use set of features. In this post, we show you some of the changes and how to migrate from AWS WAF Classic to the new AWS WAF. AWS Managed Rules for AWS WAF is […]

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. In this post, I will provide guidance and resources that will help you align to […]

Amazon SageMaker, like other services in Amazon Web Services (AWS), includes security-related parameters and configurations that you can use to improve the security posture of resources as you deploy them. However, many of these security-related parameters are optional, allowing you to deploy resources without them. While this might be acceptable in the initial exploration stage, […]

We are pleased to announce that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has achieved FedRAMP JAB authorization on an additional nine AWS services. These services provide capabilities that enable your organization to: Assemble and deploy serverless architectures in powerful new ways using AWS Serverless Application Repository Simplify application delivery and complete workload migration to the cloud using […]

We’re happy to share an update on the service documentation initiative that we first told you about on the AWS Security Blog in June, 2019. We’re excited to announce that over 150 services now have dedicated security chapters available in the AWS security documentation. In case you aren’t familiar with the security chapters, they were […]

We’re sharing an update to the Logical Separation on AWS: Moving Beyond Physical Isolation in the Era of Cloud Computing whitepaper to help customers benefit from the security and innovation benefits of logical separation in the cloud. This paper discusses using a multi-pronged approach—leveraging identity management, network security, serverless and containers services, host and instance […]

Recently, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued a ruling regarding the EU-US Privacy Shield and Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs), also known as model clauses. The CJEU ruled that the EU-US Privacy Shield is no longer valid for the transfer of personal data from the European Union (EU) to the United States […]