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Category: Amazon Detective
Detect runtime security threats in Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate, new in Amazon GuardDuty
Today, we’re announcing Amazon GuardDuty ECS Runtime Monitoring to help detect potential runtime security issues in Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) clusters running on both AWS Fargate and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). GuardDuty combines machine learning (ML), anomaly detection, network monitoring, and malicious file discovery against various AWS data sources. When threats […]
Amazon Detective adds new capabilities to accelerate and improve your cloud security investigations
Today, Amazon Detective adds four new capabilities to help you save time and strengthen your security operations. First, Detective investigations for IAM help security analysts investigate AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) objects, such as users and roles, for indicators of compromise (IoCs) to determine potential involvement in known tactics from the MITRE ATT&CK framework. […]
AWS Week in Review – Amazon EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint, Detective, Amazon S3 Dual Layer Encryption, Amazon Verified Permission – June 19, 2023
This week, I’ll meet you at AWS partner’s Jamf Nation Live in Amsterdam where we’re showing how to use Amazon EC2 Mac to deploy your remote developer workstations or configure your iOS CI/CD pipelines in the cloud. Last Week’s Launches While I was traveling last week, I kept an eye on the AWS News. Here […]
New – Simplify the Investigation of AWS Security Findings with Amazon Detective
With Amazon Detective, you can analyze and visualize security data to investigate potential security issues. Detective collects and analyzes events that describe IP traffic, AWS management operations, and malicious or unauthorized activity from AWS CloudTrail logs, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) Flow Logs, Amazon GuardDuty findings, and, since last year, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service […]
Amazon GuardDuty Now Supports Amazon EKS Runtime Monitoring
Since Amazon GuardDuty launched in 2017, GuardDuty has been capable of analyzing tens of billions of events per minute across multiple AWS data sources, such as AWS CloudTrail event logs, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) Flow Logs, and DNS query logs, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data plane events, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service […]
AWS Week in Review – February 27, 2023
A couple days ago, I had the honor of doing a live stream on generative AI, discussing recent innovations and concepts behind the current generation of large language and vision models and how we got there. In today’s roundup of news and announcements, I will share some additional information—including an expanded partnership to make generative […]
AWS Week in Review – August 1, 2022
AWS re:Inforce returned to Boston last week, kicking off with a keynote from Amazon Chief Security Officer Steve Schmidt and AWS Chief Information Security officer C.J. Moses: Be sure to take some time to watch this video and the other leadership sessions, and to use what you learn to take some proactive steps to improve […]
New for Amazon GuardDuty – Malware Protection for Amazon EBS Volumes
August 1st, 2022: Post updated to clarify how GuardDuty Malware Protection works with KMS keys. With Amazon GuardDuty, you can monitor your AWS accounts and workloads to detect malicious activity. Today, we are adding to GuardDuty the capability to detect malware. Malware is malicious software that is used to compromise workloads, repurpose resources, or gain […]