Tag: AWS Security Hub

In this blog post, we focus on two recently released features of AWS Security Hub: the consolidated controls view and consolidated control findings. You can use these features to manage controls across standards and to consolidate findings, which can help you significantly reduce finding noise and administrative overhead. Security Hub is a cloud security posture […]

AWS re:Inforce took place in Anaheim, California, on June 13–14, 2023. AWS customers, partners, and industry peers participated in hundreds of technical and non-technical security-focused sessions across six tracks, an Expo featuring AWS experts and AWS Security Competency Partners, and keynote and leadership sessions. The threat detection and incident response track showcased how AWS customers […]

June 29, 2023: This post was updated to modify automation rules, CloudFormation support, and integration with finding history. If you’ve had discussions with a security organization recently, there’s a high probability that the word automation has come up. As organizations scale and consume the benefits the cloud has to offer, it’s important to factor in […]

In today’s evolving security threat landscape, security teams increasingly require tools to detect and track security findings to protect their organizations’ assets. One objective of cloud security posture management is to identify and address security findings in a timely and effective manner. AWS Security Hub aggregates, organizes, and prioritizes security alerts and findings from various […]

March 29, 2023: The post had been updated to notify customers that the Automated Security Response on AWS v2.0.0 now supports consolidated control findings. Currently, AWS Security Hub identifies controls and generates control findings in the context of security standards. Security Hub is aiming to release two new features in the first quarter of 2023 […]

February 13, 2024: We’ve updated this post to show you how to configure Macie to assume an IAM role when you configure Macie to preview sensitive data in findings. Security teams use Amazon Macie to discover and protect sensitive data, such as names, payment card data, and AWS credentials, in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon […]

As Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security Solutions Architects, we get to talk to customers of all sizes and industries about how they want to improve their security posture and get visibility into their AWS resources. This blog post identifies the top three most commonly used Security Hub usage patterns and describes how you can use […]

With AWS Security Hub you are able to manage your security posture in AWS, perform security best practice checks, aggregate alerts, and automate remediation. Now you are able to use Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) to subscribe to the new Security Hub Announcements topic to receive updates about new Security Hub services and features, […]

December 22, 2022: We are working on an update to address issues related to cloudformation stack deployment in regions other than us-east-1, and Lambda timeouts for customers with more than 100,000 findings. AWS Security Hub is a central dashboard for security, risk management, and compliance findings from AWS Audit Manager, AWS Firewall Manager, Amazon GuardDuty, […]

In this blog post, we’ll show you how to use Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall to automatically respond to suspicious DNS queries that are detected by Amazon GuardDuty within your Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment. The Security Pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework includes incident response, stating that your organization should implement mechanisms to […]