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Create security observability using generative AI with Security Lake and Amazon Q in QuickSight

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is now a household topic and popular across various public applications. Users enter prompts to get answers to questions, write code, create images, improve their writing, and synthesize information. As people become familiar with generative AI, businesses are looking for ways to apply these concepts to their enterprise use cases in […]

How to deploy an Amazon OpenSearch cluster to ingest logs from Amazon Security Lake

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 […]

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Accelerate incident response with Amazon Security Lake – Part 2

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 […]

Patterns for consuming custom log sources in Amazon Security Lake

As security best practices have evolved over the years, so has the range of security telemetry options. Customers face the challenge of navigating through security-relevant telemetry and log data produced by multiple tools, technologies, and vendors while trying to monitor, detect, respond to, and mitigate new and existing security issues. In this post, we provide […]

Accelerate incident response with Amazon Security Lake

September 20, 2024: Updated the incident response life cycle related wording in the first blog of this series, so to better align with the NIST defined terms. This blog post is the first of a two-part series that will demonstrate the value of Amazon Security Lake and how you can use it and other resources to accelerate […]

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Navigating the threat detection and incident response track at re:Inforce 2024

A full conference pass is $1,099. Register today with the code flashsale150 to receive a limited time $150 discount, while supplies last. We’re counting down to AWS re:Inforce, our annual cloud security event! We are thrilled to invite security enthusiasts and builders to join us in Philadelphia, PA, from June 10–12 for an immersive two-and-a-half-day […]

Investigating lateral movements with Amazon Detective investigation and Security Lake integration

According to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, lateral movement consists of techniques that threat actors use to enter and control remote systems on a network. In Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments, threat actors equipped with illegitimately obtained credentials could potentially use APIs to interact with infrastructures and services directly, and they might even be able to use […]

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How Amazon Security Lake is helping customers simplify security data management for proactive threat analysis

Centralize visibility across hybrid environments for streamlined incident response, optimized log retention, and proactive threat detection. Use AI-driven enhancements for automated investigations.

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How to develop an Amazon Security Lake POC

Sept 12, 2024: We’ve updated this post to include recently added Security Lake data sources for Amazon EKS and AWS WAF log files. You can use Amazon Security Lake to simplify log data collection and retention for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and non-AWS data sources. To make sure that you get the most out of […]

Building a security-first mindset: three key themes from AWS re:Invent 2023

AWS re:Invent drew 52,000 attendees from across the globe to Las Vegas, Nevada, November 27 to December 1, 2023. Now in its 12th year, the conference featured 5 keynotes, 17 innovation talks, and over 2,250 sessions and hands-on labs offering immersive learning and networking opportunities. Amazon CSO Stephen Schmidt With dozens of service and feature […]