Tag: Auditing

Amazon QuickSight democratizes business intelligence, making it easier and cheaper for you to provide advanced business analytics capabilities to everyone in your organization. Amazon QuickSight also enables you to understand your business better and helps you make data-driven decisions more quickly. However, determining who has access to which data in your organization can still be […]

Update: This webinar is now available as an on-demand video and slide deck. As part of the AWS Monthly Online Tech Talks series, AWS will present Best Practices for Managing Security Operations in AWS on Wednesday, March 29. This tech talk will start at 9:00 A.M. and end at 10:00 A.M. Pacific Time. AWS Global Cloud Security […]

Previously, I mentioned that the re:Invent 2015 Security & Compliance track sessions had been announced, and I also discussed the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) sessions that will be offered as part of the Security & Compliance track. Today, I will highlight the remainder of the sessions that will be presented as part of the […]

The AWS IAM team recently released new credential lifecycle management features that enable AWS account administrators to define and enforce security best practices for IAM users. We’ve expanded IAM password policies to enable self-service password rotation, on top of existing options to enforce password complexity. Furthermore, you can download reports for better visibility into the […]

Auditing by using logs is an important capability of any cloud platform.  There are several third party solution providers that provide auditing and analysis using AWS logs.  Last November AWS announced its own logging and analysis service, called AWS CloudTrail.  While logging is important, understanding how to interpret logs and alerts is crucial.  In this blog […]