A decade of enterprise identity in the cloud with AWS Managed Microsoft AD

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Ten years ago, we launched AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, a fully managed Microsoft Active Directory in the AWS Cloud. In that original announcement, Jeff Barr described a straightforward promise: “You will spend less time administering and more time working on your applications and your business.” A …

Securing your Amazon S3 buckets: Identifying and remediating over-permissioned access

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Misconfigured Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets can expose your data to unauthorized access. Without proactive review, S3 bucket policies or Access Control Lists (ACLs) configured with broad access may go unnoticed in your environment. In this post, you learn how to identify and fix over-permissioned S3 buckets …

How Google Cloud detects, contains, and protects against emerging threats

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At Google Cloud, securing your data and business systems is our foundational commitment. We empower our customers with the tools, governance, and infrastructure needed to securely deploy workloads and maintain long-term trust. We approach security from a shared fate model, and we continuously work to proactively identify and mitigate …

Automate certificates with ACME support in AWS Certificate Manager

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Customers tell us that managing TLS certificates at scale is one of their biggest operational concerns. The Certification Authority Browser Forum (CA/Browser Forum) has mandated a phased reduction in maximum certificate validity for public certificates. By March 2027, the maximum validity drops to 100 days. By March 2029 …

Route Amazon Bedrock Guardrails interventions to Amazon Security Lake

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Security teams investigating AI-related incidents need guardrail intervention data alongside their existing security telemetry. Routing Amazon Bedrock Guardrails violations to Amazon Security Lake makes this possible. With this integration, you can query guardrail events alongside identity, network, and application security data in a single layer. When a guardrail blocks …

Canadian Man Pleads Guilty in Snowflake Extortions

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A 26-year-old Canadian man once described as one of the most consequential cybercrime threat actors of 2024 has pleaded guilty to computer fraud and conspiracy to hack and extort more than 165 organizations that used the cloud provider Snowflake. Connor Riley Moucka, of Kitchener, Ontario, also admitted to stealing …

Caching KMS data keys in multi-thread environments: Per-tenant encryption for event-driven systems at scale

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This post assumes familiarity with envelope encryption and the AWS Encryption SDK. When your encryption system generates millions of duplicate API calls per hour, costs spiral and performance degrades. That’s exactly the challenge NICE Actimize faced while operating their global-scale, event-driven financial crime detection platform on Amazon Web …

Advancing brain tumor research with privacy-first AI

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The intersection of medicine and AI has led to remarkable innovations. However, developers now face the thorny challenge of building robust medical AI tools that have been tested and evaluated on diverse, real-world patient data while also protecting patient privacy. At Google Cloud, our approach combines strategic collaboration with …

Adversarial Clothing Designed to Fool Facial Recognition Systems

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There are many companies manufacturing adversarial clothing designed to confuse facial recognition systems. It’s a cool idea, but I worry that it’s mostly security theater: “Our patterns play with that chaos, confuse algorithms and make it way harder to pin you down,” he said. Bell, however, said …

Thousands of servers can be backdoored by exploiting buggy motherboard controllers

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Thousands of Internet-connected servers sold by the world’s biggest manufacturers can be remotely backdoored by exploiting critical vulnerabilities—some more than a decade old—that lurk deep inside system motherboards, according to research presented Wednesday. Baseboard management controllers are miniature computers that are embedded into the motherboards of …

AWS partners with Anthropic and OpenAI to bring AWS Continuum into developer workflows

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Customers have access to models that are continuously getting better with each new generation bringing larger context windows, stronger reasoning, and lower token costs. Getting the strongest AI-powered security will come from tools that combine the most relevant models with deep knowledge of a customer’s specific environment. AWS …

From 2 weeks to 2 minutes: Amazon Cognito launches Provisioned limits for self-service rate limit management

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Imagine preparing for your biggest sales event of the year, and you want to ensure your customer identity management service can handle the elevated traffic for carrying out application activities. For security teams, business leaders, and technologists managing identity infrastructure at scale, this scenario has been all too familiar …

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