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Tag: Data protection

AWS cloud services adhere to CISPE Data Protection Code of Conduct for added GDPR assurance

French version German version I’m happy to announce that AWS has declared 52 services under the Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers Europe Data Protection Code of Conduct (CISPE Code). This provides an independent verification and an added level of assurance to our customers that our cloud services can be used in compliance with the General Data […]

Hardening the security of your AWS Elastic Beanstalk Application the Well-Architected way

Hardening the security of your AWS Elastic Beanstalk Application the Well-Architected way

April 7, 2022: This post has been updated with sample Elastic Beanstalk application with hardened security configurations on GitHub. Launching an application in AWS Elastic Beanstalk is straightforward. You define a name for your application, select the platform you want to run it on (for example, Ruby), and upload the source code. The default Elastic Beanstalk configuration […]

Introducing the Ransomware Risk Management on AWS Whitepaper

May 10, 2022: The Ransomware Risk Management on AWS Using the NIST Cyber Security Framework (CSF) whitepaper has been archived, so we have updated the link in this blog post accordingly. AWS recently released the Ransomware Risk Management on AWS Using the NIST Cyber Security Framework (CSF) whitepaper. This whitepaper aligns the National Institute of […]

re:Invent – New security sessions launching soon

Where did the last month go? Were you able to catch all of the sessions in the Security, Identity, and Compliance track you hoped to see at AWS re:Invent? If you missed any, don’t worry—you can stream all the sessions released in 2020 via the AWS re:Invent website. Additionally, we’re starting 2021 with all new […]

Use Macie to discover sensitive data as part of automated data pipelines

Data is a crucial part of every business and is used for strategic decision making at all levels of an organization. To extract value from their data more quickly, Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers are building automated data pipelines—from data ingestion to transformation and analytics. As part of this process, my customers often ask how […]

re:Invent 2020 – Your guide to AWS Identity and Data Protection sessions

August 16, 2021: We’ve updated this post to include links to recordings of the sessions. AWS re:Invent will certainly be different in 2020! Instead of seeing you all in Las Vegas, this year re:Invent will be a free, three-week virtual conference. One thing that will remain the same is the variety of sessions, including many […]

Over 150 AWS services now have a security chapter

We’re happy to share an update on the service documentation initiative that we first told you about on the AWS Security Blog in June, 2019. We’re excited to announce that over 150 services now have dedicated security chapters available in the AWS security documentation. In case you aren’t familiar with the security chapters, they were […]

Updates to the security pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework

We have updated the security pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, based on customer feedback and new best practices. In this post, I’ll take you through the highlights of the updates to the security information in the Security Pillar whitepaper and the AWS Well-Architected Tool, and explain the new best practices and guidance. AWS developed […]

How financial institutions can approve AWS services for highly confidential data

November 19, 2021: We made minor updates to this post, such as updating the number of services in scope for SOC compliance from 124 to 141. January 18, 2021: We made minor updates to this post, such as updating the number of services in scope for SOC compliance from 122 to 124. July 21, 2020: […]

How to use KMS and IAM to enable independent security controls for encrypted data in S3

August 31, 2021:AWS KMS is replacing the term customer master key (CMK) with AWS KMS key and KMS key. The concept has not changed. To prevent breaking changes, AWS KMS is keeping some variations of this term. More info. Typically, when you protect data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), you use a combination […]