Tag: PCI DSS

We are excited to announce that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released the latest 2021 PCI 3-D Secure (3DS) attestation to support our customers implementing EMV® 3-D Secure services on AWS. Although AWS doesn’t directly perform the functions of 3DS Server (3DSS), 3DS Directory Server (DS), or 3DS Access Control Server (ACS), AWS customers can […]

At this time, enabling the PCI DSS standard from within AWS Security Hub enables this compliance framework only within the Amazon Web Services (AWS) account you are presently administering. This blog post showcases a solution that can be used to customize the configuration and deployment of the PCI DSS standard compliance standard using AWS Security […]

We’re continuing to expand the scope of our assurance programs at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and are pleased to announce that nine new services have been added to the scope of our Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) certification. This provides our customers with more options to process and store their payment card […]

If you’ve supported a Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) assessment as a Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) or as a technical team facing an assessment, it’s likely that you spent a lot of time collecting and analyzing evidence against PCI DSS requirements. In this blog post, I show you how to use automation […]

We continue to expand the scope of our assurance programs and are pleased to announce that eight additional services have been added to the scope of our Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) certification. This gives our customers more options to process and store their payment card data and architect their cardholder data […]

A new whitepaper is available that summarizes the results of tests by Foregenix comparing Amazon GuardDuty with network intrusion detection systems (IDS) on threat detection of network layer attacks. GuardDuty is a cloud-centric IDS service that uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) data sources to detect a broad range of threat behaviors. Security engineers need to […]

In this post, I will show you how to use AWS Lambda to automate PCI DSS (v3.2.1) evidence generation, and daily log review to assist with your ongoing PCI DSS activities. We will specifically be looking at AWS CloudTrail Logs stored centrally in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) (which is also a Well-Architected Security […]

Our mission in AWS Security Assurance Services is to ease Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance for all Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers. We work closely with the AWS audit team to answer customer questions about understanding their compliance, finding and implementing solutions, and optimizing their controls and assessments. The most frequent […]

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. On February 13, 2020, AWS added partial support for the Payment Card Industry Data Security […]

We’re pleased to announce that seven services have been added to the scope of our Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) certification, providing our customers more options to process and store their payment card data and architect their Cardholder Data Environment (CDE) securely in AWS. In the past year we have increased the […]