AWS Security Blog

Tag: threats

How to deploy AWS Network Firewall to help protect your network from malware

April 25, 2023: We’ve updated this blog post to include more security learning resources. Protecting your network and computers from security events requires multi-level strategies, and you can use network level traffic filtration as one level of defense. Users need access to the internet for business reasons, but they can inadvertently download malware, which can […]

AWS Shield threat landscape review: 2020 year-in-review

AWS Shield is a managed service that protects applications that are running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) against external threats, such as bots and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Shield detects network and web application-layer volumetric events that may indicate a DDoS attack, web content scraping, or other unauthorized non-human traffic that is interacting […]

How to approach threat modeling

April 25, 2023: We’ve updated this blog post to include more security learning resources. August 3, 2022: Conclusion updated to reference the AWS “Threat modeling the right way for builders” workshop training. February 14, 2022: Conclusion updated to reference the companion “How to approach threat modelling” video session. In this post, I’ll provide my tips […]

AWS Shield Threat Landscape report is now available

AWS Shield is a managed threat protection service that safeguards applications running on AWS against exploitation of application vulnerabilities, bad bots, and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. The AWS Shield Threat Landscape Report (TLR) provides you with a summary of threats detected by AWS Shield. This report is curated by the AWS Threat Research […]