Category: Security, Identity, & Compliance

In this post, I’ll show you how to migrate an encryption wallet for an Oracle database installed on Amazon EC2 from using an outside HSM to using AWS CloudHSM. Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) for Oracle is a common use case for Hardware Security Module (HSM) devices like AWS CloudHSM. Oracle TDE uses what is called […]

Leading up to AWS Summit Sydney, we’re sharing our conversation with Paul Hawkins, who helped put together the summit’s “Secure” track, so you can learn more about him and some of the interesting work that he’s doing. What does a day in the life of an AWS Security Solutions Architect look like? That’s an interesting […]

AWS Organizations is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, enabling you to centrally govern and manage your AWS GovCloud (US) accounts. AWS Organizations helps you to centrally manage billing; control access, compliance, and security; and share resources across your AWS accounts. Using AWS Organizations, you can: Define organization-wide permission guardrails to establish controls […]

In an earlier post, Enabling serverless security analytics using AWS WAF full logs, Amazon Athena, and Amazon QuickSight, published on March 28, 2019, the authors showed you how to stream WAF logs with Amazon Kinesis Firehose for visualization using QuickSight. This approach used no filtering of the logs so that you could visualize the full […]

We recently sat down with CJ Moses, Deputy, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), to learn about his day-to-day as a cybersecurity executive. He also shared more about his passion for racecar driving and why AWS is partnering with the SRO GT World Challenge America series this year. How long have you been with AWS, and […]

Leading up to AWS Summit Singapore, we’re sharing our conversation with keynote speaker Olivier Klein about his work with emerging technology and about the overlap between “emerging technology” and “cloud security.” You’re the “Head of Emerging Technologies in the APAC region” on your team at AWS. What kind of work do you do? I continuously […]

AWS just released the first podcast of a new miniseries called Provable Security: Conversations on Next Gen Security. We published a podcast on provable security last fall, and, due to high customer interest, we decided to bring you a regular peek into this AWS initiative. This series will explore the unique intersection between academia and […]

We’ve published a whitepaper, Securing Internet of Things (IoT) with AWS, to help you understand and address data security as it relates to your IoT devices and the data generated by them. The whitepaper is intended for a broad audience who is interested in learning about AWS IoT security capabilities at a service-specific level and […]

AWS has released a new whitepaper, Amazon Web Services’ Approach to Operational Resilience in the Financial Sector and Beyond, in which we discuss how AWS and customers build for resiliency on the AWS cloud. We’re constantly amazed at the applications our customers build using AWS services — including what our financial services customers have built, […]

September 9, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Traditionally, analyzing data logs required you to extract, transform, and load your data before using a number of data warehouse and business intelligence tools to derive business intelligence from that data—on top of maintaining the servers that ran behind these […]