Category: Security, Identity, & Compliance

AWS Organizations provides central governance and management across AWS accounts. In this post, we explain how AWS Organizations can make the lives of your Information Security engineers easier, based on our experience in the Information Security team at Amazon. The service control policies (SCPs) feature in AWS Organizations offers you central control over permissions for […]

In this post, we show you how you can use AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) to request or issue private certificates across a multi-account environment by using IAM roles. This solution allows you to centralize your ACM Private CA inside your AWS Organization, which reduces the complexity and the cost of having […]

You can use AWS CloudHSM to help manage your encryption keys on FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validated hardware security modules (HSMs). AWS recommends running a high-availability production architecture with at least two CloudHSM HSMs in different Availability Zones. Although many workloads must be available 24/7, quality assurance or development environments typically do not have this […]

Last month, Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced the ability to automate issuing and validating public and private certificates using AWS CloudFormation. To make this easier, AWS has introduced three new features that let you: Automate the steps to validate your domain with DNS validation and issue your public certificate. Use AWS CloudFormation templates to issue […]

Most businesses collect, process, and store sensitive customer data that needs to be secured to earn customer trust and protect customers against abuses. Regulated businesses must prove they meet guidelines established by regulatory bodies. As an example, in the capital markets, broker-dealers and investment advisors must demonstrate they address the guidelines proposed by the Office […]

We are excited to announce the addition of 41 new services in the scope of our latest Outsourced Service Provider Audit Report (OSPAR) audit cycle, for a total of 105 services in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region. The newly added services include: AWS Security Hub, which gives you a comprehensive view of high-priority security alerts […]

Following our Information Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) assessment in December 2019, we are excited to announce that we have additional new IRAP documents now available in AWS Artifact as a result of the recent IRAP assessment at the PROTECTED level that was finished in June 2020. This includes an IRAP compliance report for 33 […]

November 1, 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. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, performance, […]

AWS Secrets Manager now enables you to search secrets based on attributes such as secret name, description, tag keys, and tag values. With this launch, you can easily identify, arrange, and manage your secrets into logical groups that can then be used by specific applications, departments, or employees. For example, you can use the Secrets […]

AWS Secrets Manager now enables you to create and manage your resource-based policies using the Secrets Manager console. With this launch, we are also improving your security posture by both identifying and preventing creation of resource policies that grant overly broad access to your secrets across your Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts. To achieve this, […]