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How AWS threat intelligence deters threat actors

Every day across the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure, we detect and successfully thwart hundreds of cyberattacks that might otherwise be disruptive and costly. These important but mostly unseen victories are achieved with a global network of sensors and an associated set of disruption tools. Using these capabilities, we make it more difficult and […]

Deploy AWS WAF faster with Security Automations

Deploy AWS WAF faster with Security Automations

You can now deploy AWS WAF managed rules as part of the Security Automations for AWS WAF solution. In this post, we show you how to get started and set up monitoring for this automated solution with additional recommendations. This article discusses AWS WAF, a service that assists you in protecting against typical web attacks […]

Discover the benefits of AWS WAF advanced rate-based rules

Discover the benefits of AWS WAF advanced rate-based rules

In 2017, AWS announced the release of Rate-based Rules for AWS WAF, a new rule type that helps protect websites and APIs from application-level threats such as distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, brute force log-in attempts, and bad bots. Rate-based rules track the rate of requests for each originating IP address and invokes a […]

Protect APIs with Amazon API Gateway and perimeter protection services

Protect APIs with Amazon API Gateway and perimeter protection services

As Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers build new applications, APIs have been key to driving the adoption of these offerings. APIs simplify client integration and provide for efficient operations and management of applications by offering standard contracts for data exchange. APIs are also the front door to hosted applications that need to be effectively secured, […]

Figure 1. Prevent account creation fraud with AWS WAF Fraud Control – Account Creation Fraud Prevention

Prevent account creation fraud with AWS WAF Fraud Control – Account Creation Fraud Prevention

Threat actors use sign-up pages and login pages to carry out account fraud, including taking unfair advantage of promotional and sign-up bonuses, publishing fake reviews, and spreading malware. In 2022, AWS released AWS WAF Fraud Control – Account Takeover Prevention (ATP) to help protect your application’s login page against credential stuffing attacks, brute force attempts, and […]

How to use Amazon GuardDuty and AWS WAF v2 to automatically block suspicious hosts

In this post, we’ll share an automation pattern that you can use to automatically detect and block suspicious hosts that are attempting to access your Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources. The automation will rely on Amazon GuardDuty to generate findings about the suspicious hosts, and then you can respond to those findings by programmatically updating […]

How to use granular geographic match rules with AWS WAF

How to use granular geographic match rules with AWS WAF

In November 2022, AWS introduced support for granular geographic (geo) match conditions in AWS WAF. This blog post demonstrates how you can use this new feature to customize your AWS WAF implementation and improve the security posture of your protected application. AWS WAF provides inline inspection of inbound traffic at the application layer. You can […]

Deploy a dashboard for AWS WAF with minimal effort

September 8, 2023: It’s important to know that if you activate user sign-up in your user pool, anyone on the internet can sign up for an account and sign in to your apps. Don’t enable self-registration in your user pool unless you want to open your app to allow users to sign up. January 24, […]

Top 2021 AWS service launches security professionals should review – Part 2

In Part 1 of this two-part series, we shared an overview of some of the most important 2021 Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security service and feature launches. In this follow-up, we’ll dive deep into additional launches that are important for security professionals to be aware of and understand across all AWS services. There have already […]

Dmitriy Novikov

Fine-tune and optimize AWS WAF Bot Control mitigation capability

Introduction A few years ago at Sydney Summit, I had an excellent question from one of our attendees. She asked me to help her design a cost-effective, reliable, and not overcomplicated solution for protection against simple bots for her web-facing resources on Amazon Web Services (AWS). I remember the occasion because with the release of […]