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How to Use AWS CloudFormation to Automate Your AWS WAF Configuration with Example Rules and Match Conditions
Note from July 4, 2017: The solution in this post has been integrated into AWS WAF Security Automations, and AWS maintains up-to-date solution code in the companion GitHub repository. AWS WAF is a web application firewall that integrates closely with Amazon CloudFront (AWS’s content delivery network [CDN]). AWS WAF gives you control to allow or block […]
How to Use SAML to Automatically Direct Federated Users to a Specific AWS Management Console Page
Identity federation enables your enterprise users (such as Active Directory users) to access the AWS Management Console via single sign-on (SSO) by using their existing credentials. In Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0, RelayState is an optional parameter that identifies a specified destination URL your users will access after signing in with SSO. When using […]
Watch the AWS Summit – Santa Clara Keynote in Real Time on July 13
Join us online Wednesday, July 13, at 10:00 A.M. Pacific Time for the AWS Summit – Santa Clara Livestream! This keynote presentation, given by Dr. Matt Wood, AWS General Manager of Product Strategy, will highlight the newest AWS features and services, and select customer stories. Don’t miss this live presentation!
How to Prevent Uploads of Unencrypted Objects to Amazon S3
There are many use cases to prevent uploads of unencrypted objects to an Amazon S3 bucket, but the underlying objective is to protect the confidentiality and integrity of the objects stored in that bucket. AWS provides several services that help make this process easier, such as AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) and AWS Key […]
The Top 20 AWS IAM Documentation Pages so Far This Year
The following 20 pages have been the most viewed AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) documentation pages so far this year. I have included a brief description with each link to give you a clearer idea of what each page covers. Use this list to see what other people have been viewing and perhaps to […]
The Most Viewed AWS Security Blog Posts so Far in 2016
The following 10 posts are the most viewed AWS Security Blog posts that we published during the first six months of this year. You can use this list as a guide to catch up on your blog reading or even read a post again that you found particularly useful. How to Set Up DNS Resolution […]
AWS Earns Department of Defense Impact Level 4 Provisional Authorization
I am pleased to share that, for our AWS GovCloud (US) Region, AWS has received a Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Provisional Authorization (PA) at Impact Level 4 (IL4). This will allow Department of Defense (DoD) agencies to use the AWS Cloud for production workloads with export-controlled data, privacy information, and protected health information as well as […]
AWS re:Invent 2016 Registration Is Now Open
Are you looking for up-to-date info about re:Invent? Check out the AWS event page: https://reinvent.awsevents.com/ Are you looking for Security Blog coverage of re:Invent? Use this tag to see our most recent posts: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/tag/reinvent Updated December 2, 2016: We will publish a blog post the week of December […]
AWS Achieves FedRAMP High JAB Provisional Authorization
We are pleased to announce that AWS has received a FedRAMP High JAB Provisional Authorization to Operate (P-ATO) from the Joint Authorization Board (JAB) for the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. The new Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) High JAB Provisional Authorization is mapped to more than 400 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) security controls. This […]
Register for and Attend This June 27 Webinar—Getting Started with Amazon Inspector
Update: This webinar is now available as an on-demand video and slide deck. As part of the AWS Webinar Series, AWS will present Getting Started with Amazon Inspector on Monday, June 27. This webinar will start at 10:30 A.M. and end at 11:30 A.M. Pacific Time. AWS Principal Security Engineer Eric Fitzgerald will show how […]









