As AI becomes central to business operations, so does the need for responsible AI governance. But how can you make sure that your AI systems are ethical, resilient, and aligned with compliance standards? ISO/IEC 42001, the international management system standard…
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Mapping AWS security services to MITRE frameworks for threat detection and mitigation
In the cloud security landscape, organizations benefit from aligning their controls and practices with industry standard frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK®, MITRE EngageTM, and MITRE D3FENDTM. MITRE frameworks are structured, openly accessible models that document threat actor behaviors to help…
Monitoring and optimizing the cost of the unused access analyzer in IAM Access Analyzer
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer is a feature that you can use to identify resources in your AWS organization and accounts that are shared with external entities and to identify unused access. In this post, we explore…
Implementing safety guardrails for applications using Amazon SageMaker
Large Language Models (LLMs) have become essential tools for content generation, document analysis, and natural language processing tasks. Because of the complex non-deterministic output generated by these models, you need to apply robust safety measures to help prevent inappropriate outputs…
How to manage migration of hsm1.medium CloudHSM clusters to hsm2m.medium
On August 20, 2024, we announced the general availability of the new AWS CloudHSM instance type hsm2m.medium (hsm2). This new type comes with additional features compared to the previous AWS CloudHSM instance type, hsm1.medium (hsm1), such as support for Federal…
AWS expands Spain’s ENS High certification across 174 services
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has successfully renewed its Esquema Nacional de Seguridad (ENS) High certification under the latest framework established by Royal Decree 311/2022. This achievement demonstrates the continued dedication of AWS to meeting the stringent security requirements essential for…
AWS renews its AAA Pinakes rating for the Spanish financial sector
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has successfully revalidated its prestigious AAA rating under the Pinakes qualification system, with certification coverage extending to 174 services across 31 global AWS Regions. This achievement marks a significant milestone in the commitment of AWS to…
Introducing the AWS User Guide to Governance, Risk and Compliance for Responsible AI Adoption within Financial Services Industries
Financial services institutions (FSIs) are increasingly adopting AI technologies to drive innovation and improve customer experiences. However, this adoption brings new governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) considerations that organizations need to address. To help FSI customers navigate these challenges, AWS…
Introducing the AWS Zero Trust Accelerator for Government
Government agencies face an unprecedented challenge when designing security against unauthorized access to IT infrastructure and data. Traditional perimeter-based security models—which rely on the assumption of trust within an organization’s network boundaries—are no longer sufficient. The wide adoption of bring-your-own-device…
Use an Amazon Bedrock powered chatbot with Amazon Security Lake to help investigate incidents
In part 2 of this series, we showed you how to use Amazon SageMaker Studio notebooks with natural language input to assist with threat hunting. This is done by using SageMaker Studio to automatically generate and run SQL queries on…
How to use AWS Transfer Family and GuardDuty for malware protection
Organizations often need to securely share files with external parties over the internet. Allowing public access to a file transfer server exposes the organization to potential threats, such as malware-infected files uploaded by threat actors or inadvertently by genuine users.…
How to import existing AWS Organizations SCPs and RCPs to CloudFormation
Many AWS Organizations customers begin by creating and manually applying service control policies (SCPs) and resource control policies (RCPs) through the AWS Management Console or AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) when they first set up their environments. However, as the organization…
AWS empowers global security culture at Wicked6 Cyber Games
Wicked6 Cyber Games 2025 brought hundreds of women together worldwide from March 28–30. This dynamic virtual competition, sponsored by Amazon Web Services (AWS), helped attendees tackle real-world cybersecurity challenges through e-sports experiences. With 72 hours of women talking about cybersecurity,…
Announcing AWS Security Reference Architecture Code Examples for Generative AI
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce the release of new Security Reference Architecture (SRA) code examples for securing generative AI workloads. The examples include two comprehensive capabilities focusing on secure model inference and RAG implementations, covering a wide…
How to help prevent hotlinking using referer checking, AWS WAF, and Amazon CloudFront
Note: This post was first published April 21, 2016. The updated version aligns with the latest version of AWS WAF (AWS WAF v2) and includes screenshots that reflect the changes in the AWS console experience. AWS WAF Classic has been…
How to support OpenID AuthZEN requests with Amazon Verified Permissions
OpenID Foundation’s AuthZEN Working Group is currently drafting a new specification (version 1.0, draft 03 at the time of publication) and associated standard mechanisms, protocols, and formats to communicate authorization-related information between components involved in access control and authorization. Today,…
Enhanced Network Security Control: Flow Management with AWS Network Firewall
AWS Network Firewall is a managed, stateful network firewall and intrusion detection and prevention service. It allows you to implement security rules for fine-grained control of your VPC network traffic. In this blog post, we discuss flow capture and flow…
Automating AWS Private CA audit reports and certificate expiration alerts
Today’s organizations rely heavily on secure and reliable communication channels and digital certificates play a crucial role in securing internal and external-facing infrastructure by establishing trust and enabling encrypted communication. While public certificates are commonly used to secure internet applications,…
AWS completes the 2025 Cyber Essentials Plus certification
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce the successful renewal of the United Kingdom Cyber Essentials Plus certification. The Cyber Essentials Plus certificate is valid for one year until March 21, 2026. Cyber Essentials Plus is a UK Government-backed,…
ML-KEM post-quantum TLS now supported in AWS KMS, ACM, and Secrets Manager
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is excited to announce that the latest hybrid post-quantum key agreement standards for TLS have been deployed to three AWS services. Today, AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS), AWS Certificate Manager (ACM), and AWS Secrets Manager…