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Maximize your cloud security experience at AWS re:Invent 2024: A comprehensive guide to security sessions

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AWS re:Invent 2024, which takes place December 2–6 in Las Vegas, will be packed with invaluable sessions for security professionals, cloud architects, and compliance leaders who are eager to learn about the latest security innovations. This year’s event puts best practices for zero trust, generative AI–driven security, identity and access management (IAM), DevSecOps, network and infrastructure security, data protection, and threat detection and incident response at the forefront. The event will provide invaluable learning and networking opportunities for professionals focused on cloud security.

To help you navigate the extensive list of sessions and maximize your learning, we’ve curated a list of must-attend security sessions at re:Invent 2024. To join us, register today, and we’ll see you in Vegas!

Keynotes and innovation talks

The re:Invent 2024 keynote and innovation talks offer the opportunity to gain direct, transformative insights from senior AWS leaders. Delve into the latest breakthroughs in generative AI, cloud security, and cutting-edge architectural innovations that are redefining the future of application development and the AWS Cloud.

  • KEY002 – CEO Keynote with Matt Garman. Discover how AWS is innovating across the cloud, from reinventing core services to creating new experiences, empowering customers and partners to build a secure and better future.
  • SEC203-INT – Security insights and innovation from AWS with Chris Betz. Discover how groundbreaking security innovations and generative AI empower your organization to accelerate innovation securely, as AWS CISO Chris Betz reveals transformative strategies to integrate and automate security, freeing your team to focus on high-value initiatives.

Check out the full list of innovation talks. Not attending live this year? The keynote and innovation talks will be live streamed.

Sessions

To add sessions to your re:Invent 2024 agenda and find time and location information, choose the session title link.

Accelerating least privilege with advanced access analysis

Explore identity management and access control best practices to minimize your attack surface and enable a zero-trust architecture.

Fortifying your security posture with threat detection and incident response

Use AWS security services to help you enhance your security posture and streamline security operations by continuously identifying and prioritizing security risks.

  • SEC321 | Breakout session | Innovations in AWS detection and response: This session focuses on practical use cases, such as threat detection, workload and data protection, automated and continual vulnerability management, centralized monitoring, continuous cloud security posture management, unified security data management, investigation and response, and generative AI. Gain a deeper understanding of how you can seamlessly integrate AWS detection and response services to help protect your workloads at scale, enhance your security posture, and streamline security operations across your entire AWS environment.
  • SEC332 | Chalk talk | Anatomy of a ransomware event targeting data within AWS: In this chalk talk, learn the anatomy of a ransomware event that targets data within AWS, including detection, response, and recovery. Leave with a deeper understanding of the AWS services and features you can use to protect against ransomware events in your environment and the knowledge to investigate possible ransomware events if they occur.
  • SEC301 | Workshop | Threat detection and response using AWS security services: This workshop simulates several security events across different resources and behaviors. Get hands-on in a provided sandbox environment to review and respond to findings from the simulated events. You must bring your laptop to participate.
  • SEC219 | Breakout session |Uncovering sophisticated cloud threats with Amazon GuardDuty: Learn how Amazon GuardDuty offers fully managed threat detection that gives you end-to-end visibility across your AWS environment. The unique detection capabilities of GuardDuty are guided by AWS visibility into the cloud threat landscape and can help responders address issues faster, minimizing the mean time to repair (MTTR) and optimizing security resources—so your teams can spend more time innovating and less time chasing down security risks.
  • SEC343 | Chalk talk | Identify a prioritization strategy for security response & remediation: Join this chalk talk to learn about a framework for automating your response and remediation to security findings for your accounts. With AWS Security Hub as the foundation, explore the decision-making process regarding which findings could be auto-remediated, the implications of an auto-remediation approach, and how to achieve a quick and thorough response.
  • SEC401 | Code talk| Inspect and secure your application with generative AI: Explore how to use generative AI to improve the security of your applications. Learn how AI-powered tools can help rapidly identify and then recommend remediations for security issues. Learn about how Amazon Inspector detects software and code vulnerabilities in your applications, and discover how to scan for issues and remediate them using generative AI in your integrated development environment (IDE).

Securing the edge against evolving risks with confidence

Use AWS edge security services to help protect against distributed denial of service (DDoS) and exploits directed against applications and achieve a more consistent security posture.

Safeguarding sensitive data in the age of generative AI

Discover advanced techniques and AWS services to help you protect the confidentiality and privacy of your data when you implement emerging AI technologies.

To find more generative AI–focused sessions, see this blog post.

Empowering developers with a security-minded culture

Integrate security seamlessly within your DevSecOps practices to accelerate time to market and reduce risk.

Expo

Want to talk directly with an AWS expert on cloud security? Then don’t miss this opportunity to have one-on-one conversations with leading AWS security experts in the Security Activation area of the expo floor to help you take your organization’s security posture to new heights.

Delve into key security domains such as:

  • Detection and response: Explore techniques for detecting and responding to security risks to help protect your workloads at scale.
  • Network and infrastructure security: Learn how to build and manage a secure global network with AWS services.
  • Application security: Discover strategies to ship secure software and address the challenges of application security.
  • Identity and access management: Adopt modern cloud-native identity solutions and apply least-privilege access controls.
  • Digital sovereignty and data protection: Maintain control over your data and choose how to secure and manage it in the AWS Cloud.

Still time for fun!

After an inspiring week of transformative insights and deep learning, join us for the world renowned re:Play party—the ultimate re:Invent sendoff! Immerse yourself in live entertainment from headlining musical artists, scrumptious cuisine, and flowing refreshments as we come together to unwind, connect, and toast to a future of limitless possibilities.

Register today

It’s going to be an amazing event, and we can’t wait to see you at re:Invent 2024! Register now to secure your spot.

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Apurva More

Apurva More

Apurva is a part of the AWS Security, Identity, and Compliance team, with 13 years of experience in global product marketing across both startups and large enterprises. Known for her expertise in market positioning, competitive analysis, and customer insights, she has launched products that resonate with target audiences and drive revenue growth, while collaborating cross-functionally to align product vision with market needs and business goals.

Justin Criswell

Justin Criswell

Justin is a Senior Manager of Security Solutions Architecture at AWS. He brings 20 years of technology expertise, including 12 years specializing in cloud security and customer success. He leads a team of specialists to help enterprise AWS customers adopt and operationalize security services, increase visibility, reduce risk, and enhance their security posture in the AWS Cloud.