New IRAP report is now available on AWS Artifact for Australian customers

We are excited to announce that a new Information Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) report is now available on AWS Artifact. The new IRAP documentation pack brings new services in scope, and includes a Cloud Security Control Matrix (CSCM) for specific information to help customers assess each applicable control that is required by the Australian Government Information Security Manual (ISM).

The scope of the new IRAP report includes a reassessment of 92 services, and adds 5 additional services: Amazon Macie, AWS Backup, AWS CodePipeline, AWS Control Tower, and AWS X-Ray. With the additional 5 services in scope of this cycle, we now have a total of 97 services assessed at the PROTECTED level. This provides more capabilities for our Australian government customers to deploy workloads at the PROTECTED level across security, storage, developer tools, and governance. For the full list of services, see the AWS Services in Scope page and select the IRAP tab. All services in scope for IRAP are available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region.

We developed IRAP documentation pack in accordance with the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC)’s cloud security guidance and their Anatomy of a Cloud Assessment and Authorisation framework, which addresses guidance within the Attorney-General’s Department’s Protective Security Policy Framework (PSPF), and the Digital Transformation Agency (DTA)’s Secure Cloud Strategy.

We created the IRAP documentation pack to help Australian government agencies and their partners to plan, architect, and risk assess their workload based on AWS Cloud services. Please reach out to your AWS representatives to let us know what additional services you would like to see in scope for coming IRAP assessments. We strive to bring more services into the scope of the IRAP PROTECTED level, based on your requirements.

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