Tag: Security

As generative AI models become increasingly integrated into business applications, it’s crucial to evaluate the potential security risks they introduce. At AWS re:Invent 2023, we presented on this topic, helping hundreds of customers maintain high-velocity decision-making for adopting new technologies securely. Customers who attended this session were able to better understand our recommended approach for […]

At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we’ve built our services with secure by design principles from day one, including features that set a high bar for our customers’ default security posture. Strong authentication is a foundational component in overall account security, and the use of multi-factor authentication (MFA) is one of the simplest and most effective […]

Security is a shared responsibility between Amazon Web Services (AWS) and you, the customer. As a customer, the services you choose, how you connect them, and how you run your solutions can impact your security posture. To help customers fulfill their responsibilities and find the right balance for their business, under the shared responsibility model, […]

Education is critical to effective security. As organizations migrate, modernize, and build with Amazon Web Services (AWS), engineering and development teams need specific skills and knowledge to embed security into workloads. Lack of support for these skills can increase the likelihood of security incidents. AWS has partnered with SANS Institute to create SEC480: AWS Secure Builder—a […]

If you are new to AWS WAF and are interested in learning how to mitigate bot traffic by implementing Challenge actions in your AWS WAF custom rules, here is a basic, cost-effective way of using this action to help you reduce the impact of bot traffic in your applications. We also cover the basics of […]

October 28, 2024: We updated the text and figure for security objective 1 to show Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) endpoints—powered by AWS PrivateLink—enable customers to establish private connectivity to supported AWS services, enterprise services, and third-party services by using private IP addresses. There are three types of […]

Welcome to the second post in our series on Security Guardians, a mechanism to distribute security ownership at Amazon Web Services (AWS) that trains, develops, and empowers builder teams to make security decisions about the software that they create. In the previous post, you learned the importance of building a culture of security ownership to […]

AWS is deeply committed to earning and maintaining the trust of customers who rely on us to run their workloads. Security has always been our top priority, which includes designing our own services with security in mind at the outset, and taking proactive measures to mitigate potential threats so that customers can focus on their […]

April 3, 2025: We’ve updated this post to reflect the new 2025 OWASP top 10 for LLM entries. Customers are finding several advantages to using generative AI within their applications. However, using generative AI adds new considerations when reviewing the threat model of an application, whether you’re using it to improve the customer experience for […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is excited to announce that a new Information Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) report (2024 H1) is now available through AWS Artifact. An independent Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) certified IRAP assessor completed the IRAP assessment of AWS in August 2024. The new IRAP report includes an additional seven AWS services that are now assessed at the […]