AWS Security Blog
Preparing for take-off: Regulatory perspectives on generative AI adoption within Australian financial services
The Australian financial services regulator, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), has provided its most substantial guidance on generative AI to date in Member Therese McCarthy Hockey’s remarks to the AFIA Risk Summit 2024. The guidance gives a green light for banks, insurance companies, and superannuation funds to accelerate their adoption of this transformative technology, […]
Exploring the benefits of artificial intelligence while maintaining digital sovereignty
Around the world, organizations are evaluating and embracing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to drive innovation and efficiency. From accelerating research and enhancing customer experiences to optimizing business processes, improving patient outcomes, and enriching public services, the transformative potential of AI is being realized across sectors. Although using emerging technologies helps drive positive […]
Federated access to Amazon Athena using AWS IAM Identity Center
Managing Amazon Athena through identity federation allows you to manage authentication and authorization procedures centrally. Athena is a serverless, interactive analytics service that provides a simplified and flexible way to analyze petabytes of data. In this blog post, we show you how you can use the Athena JDBC driver (which includes a browser Security Assertion […]
Secure root user access for member accounts in AWS Organizations
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now supports centralized management of root access for member accounts in AWS Organizations. With this capability, you can remove unnecessary root user credentials for your member accounts and automate some routine tasks that previously required root user credentials, such as restoring access to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) […]
Securing the RAG ingestion pipeline: Filtering mechanisms
Retrieval-Augmented Generative (RAG) applications enhance the responses retrieved from large language models (LLMs) by integrating external data such as downloaded files, web scrapings, and user-contributed data pools. This integration improves the models’ performance by adding relevant context to the prompt. While RAG applications are a powerful way to dynamically add additional context to an LLM’s prompt […]
Important changes to CloudTrail events for AWS IAM Identity Center
AWS IAM Identity Center is streamlining its AWS CloudTrail events by including only essential fields that are necessary for workflows like audit and incident response. This change simplifies user identification in CloudTrail, addressing customer feedback. It also enhances correlation between IAM Identity Center users and external directory services, such as Okta Universal Directory or Microsoft […]
Threat modeling your generative AI workload to evaluate security risk
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 […]
Secure by Design: AWS enhances centralized security controls as MFA requirements expand
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 […]
Updated whitepaper: Architecting for PCI DSS Segmentation and Scoping on AWS
Our mission at AWS Security Assurance Services is to assist with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance for Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers. We work closely with AWS customers to answer their questions about compliance on the AWS Cloud, finding and implementing solutions, and optimizing their controls and assessments. We’ve compiled the […]
Discover duplicate AWS Config rules for streamlined compliance
Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers use various AWS services to migrate, build, and innovate in the AWS Cloud. To align with compliance requirements, customers need to monitor, evaluate, and detect changes made to AWS resources. AWS Config continuously audits, assesses, and evaluates the configurations of your AWS resources. AWS Config rules continuously evaluate your AWS […]