We’re pleased to announce an enhanced version of the AWS Secrets Manager transform: AWS::SecretsManager-2024-09-16. This update is designed to simplify infrastructure management by reducing the need for manual security updates, bug fixes, and runtime upgrades. AWS Secrets Manager helps you manage, retrieve,…
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AWS-LC FIPS 3.0: First cryptographic library to include ML-KEM in FIPS 140-3 validation
We’re excited to announce that AWS-LC FIPS 3.0 has been added to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP) modules in process list. This latest validation of AWS-LC introduces support for Module Lattice-Based Key Encapsulation Mechanisms…
AWS Network Firewall Geographic IP Filtering launch
AWS Network Firewall is a managed service that provides a convenient way to deploy essential network protections for your virtual private clouds (VPCs). In this blog post, we discuss Geographic IP Filtering, a new feature of Network Firewall that you…
AWS post-quantum cryptography migration plan
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is migrating to post-quantum cryptography (PQC). Like other security and compliance features in AWS, we will deliver PQC as part of our shared responsibility model. This means that some PQC features will be transparently enabled for all customers…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Maximize your cloud security experience at AWS re:Invent 2024: A comprehensive guide to security sessions
AWS re:Invent 2024, which takes place December 2–6 in Las Vegas, will be packed with invaluable sessions for security professionals, cloud architects, and compliance leaders who are eager to learn about the latest security innovations. This year’s event puts best…
Amazon Inspector suppression rules best practices for AWS Organizations
Vulnerability management is a vital part of network, application, and infrastructure security, and its goal is to protect an organization from inadvertent access and exposure of sensitive data and infrastructure. As part of vulnerability management, organizations typically perform a risk…
Implement effective data authorization mechanisms to secure your data used in generative AI applications
Data security and data authorization, as distinct from user authorization, is a critical component of business workload architectures. Its importance has grown with the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, with generative AI introducing new opportunities to use internal data…
Unauthorized tactic spotlight: Initial access through a third-party identity provider
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…
New AWS Secure Builder training available through SANS Institute
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…
Adding threat detection to custom authentication flow with Amazon Cognito advanced security features
Recently, passwordless authentication has gained popularity compared to traditional password-based authentication methods. Application owners can add user management to their applications while offloading most of the security heavy-lifting to Amazon Cognito. You can use Amazon Cognito to customize user authentication…
Spring 2024 PCI DSS and 3DS compliance packages available now
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce that three new AWS services have been added to the scope of our Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and Payment Card Industry Three Domain Secure (PCI 3DS) certifications: Amazon…
How to implement trusted identity propagation for applications protected by Amazon Cognito
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently released AWS IAM Identity Center trusted identity propagation to create identity-enhanced IAM role sessions when requesting access to AWS services as well as to trusted token issuers. These two features can help customers build custom…
How to mitigate bot traffic by implementing Challenge actions in your AWS WAF custom rules
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…
Amazon identified internet domains abused by APT29
APT29 aka Midnight Blizzard recently attempted to phish thousands of people. Building on work by CERT-UA, Amazon recently identified internet domains abused by APT29, a group widely attributed to Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR). In this instance, their targets were…
Exploring digital sovereignty: learning opportunities at re:Invent 2024
AWS re:Invent 2024, a learning conference hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS) for the global cloud computing community, will take place December 2–6, 2024, in Las Vegas, Nevada, across multiple venues. At re:Invent, you can join cloud enthusiasts from around…