Category: Security, Identity, & Compliance

Mitigate risks like data exposure, model exploits, and ethical lapses when deploying Amazon Bedrock chatbots. Implement guardrails, encryption, access controls, and governance frameworks.

Amazon Cognito is a customer identity and access management (CIAM) service that can scale to millions of users. Although the Cognito documentation details which multi-tenancy models are available, determining when to use each model can sometimes be challenging. In this blog post, we’ll provide guidance on when to use each model and review their pros […]

Threat intelligence that can fend off security threats before they happen requires not just smarts, but the speed and worldwide scale that only AWS can offer. Organizations around the world trust Amazon Web Services (AWS) with their most sensitive data. One of the ways we help secure data on AWS is with an industry-leading threat […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce the completion of our annual Outsourced Service Provider’s Audit Report (OSPAR) audit cycle on July 1, 2024. The 2024 OSPAR certification cycle includes the addition of 10 new services in scope, bringing the total number of services in scope to 163 in the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) […]

We’re excited to announce that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has completed its first German Insurance Association (GDV) joint audit with GDV participant members, which provides assurance to customers in the German insurance industry for the security of their workloads on AWS. This is an important addition to the joint audits performed at AWS by our regulated customers within […]

Many customers use Amazon Security Lake to automatically centralize security data from Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments, software as a service (SaaS) providers, on-premises workloads, and cloud sources into a purpose-built data lake in their AWS accounts. With Security Lake, customers can choose between native AWS security analytics tools and partner security information and event […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce that we have revalidated our AAA rating for the Pinakes qualification system. The scope of this requalification covers 171 services in 31 global AWS Regions. Pinakes is a security rating framework developed by the Spanish banking association Centro de Cooperación Interbancaria (CCI) to facilitate the management and […]

This blog post is the second of a two-part series where we show you how to respond to a specific incident by using Amazon Security Lake as the primary data source to accelerate incident response workflow. The workflow is described in the Unintended Data Access in Amazon S3 incident response playbook, published in the AWS […]

Building a certificate authority (CA) hierarchy using AWS Private Certificate Authority has been made simple in Amazon Web Services (AWS); however, the CA tree will often reside in one AWS Region in one account. Many AWS customers run their businesses in multiple Regions using multiple AWS accounts and have described the process of creating a […]

September 18, 2024: This post has been updated to include instructions for building the Secrets Manager Agent. AWS Secrets Manager is a service that helps you manage, retrieve, and rotate database credentials, application credentials, API keys, and other secrets throughout their lifecycles. You can use Secrets Manager to replace hard-coded credentials in application source code […]