AWS Security Blog
Tag: Cloud security
How Security Operation Centers can use Amazon GuardDuty to detect malicious behavior
The Security Operations Center (SOC) has a tough job. As customers modernize and shift to cloud architectures, the ability to monitor, detect, and respond to risks poses different challenges. In this post we address how Amazon GuardDuty can address some common concerns of the SOC regarding the number of security tools and the overhead to […]
AWS Security Profile: Byron Cook, Director of the AWS Automated Reasoning Group
Byron Cook leads the AWS Automated Reasoning Group, which automates proof search in mathematical logic and builds tools that provide AWS customers with provable security. Byron has pushed boundaries in this field, delivered real-world applications in the cloud, and fostered a sense of community amongst its practitioners. In recognition of Byron’s contributions to cloud security […]
New whitepaper: Achieving Operational Resilience in the Financial Sector and Beyond
AWS has released a new whitepaper, Amazon Web Services’ Approach to Operational Resilience in the Financial Sector and Beyond, in which we discuss how AWS and customers build for resiliency on the AWS cloud. We’re constantly amazed at the applications our customers build using AWS services — including what our financial services customers have built, […]
A simpler way to assess the network exposure of EC2 instances: AWS releases new network reachability assessments in Amazon Inspector
Performing network security assessments allows you to understand your cloud infrastructure and identify risks, but this process traditionally takes a lot of time and effort. You might need to run network port-scanning tools to test routing and firewall configurations, then validate what processes are listening on your instance network ports, before finally mapping the IPs […]
Daniel Schwartz-Narbonne shares how automated reasoning is helping achieve the provable security of AWS boot code
I recently sat down with Daniel Schwartz-Narbonne, a software development engineer in the Automated Reasoning Group (ARG) at AWS, to learn more about the groundbreaking work his team is doing in cloud security. The team uses automated reasoning, a technology based on mathematical logic, to prove that key components of the cloud are operating as […]
Podcast: We developed Amazon GuardDuty to meet scaling demands, now it could assist with compliance considerations such as GDPR
It isn’t simple to meet the scaling requirements of AWS when creating a threat detection monitoring service. Our service teams have to maintain the ability to deliver at a rapid pace. That led to the question what can be done to make a security service as frictionless as possible to business demands? Core parts of […]
Join Us for AWS Security Week November 6–9 in New York City
Want to learn how to securely deploy applications and services in the AWS Cloud? Join us in New York City at the AWS Pop-up Loft for AWS Security Week, November 6–9. At this free technical event, you will learn security concepts and strategies from AWS security professionals in sessions, demos, and labs. Here is a sampling of […]
Register to Attend an AWS Security Roadshow
Register to attend an AWS Security Roadshow, a free technical event where you can learn how to use AWS services—including those recently launched—to help improve the agility and maturity of your security and compliance programs. AWS Security Roadshow topics will include: AWS Security Overview What’s New Network Security and Access Control Within AWS Protecting Your Data in AWS Putting It […]