AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer provides tools to simplify permissions management by making it simpler for you to set, verify, and refine permissions. One such tool is IAM Access Analyzer policy generation, which creates fine-grained policies based on your AWS CloudTrail access activity—for example, the …
In this blog post, we will walk you through the EC2 forensic module factory solution to deploy automation to build forensic kernel modules that are required for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) incident response automation. When an EC2 instance is suspected to have been compromised, it’s strongly …
This solution consists of two parts. In the previous blog post Implement step-up authentication with Amazon Cognito, Part 1: Solution overview, you learned about the architecture and design of a step-up authentication solution that uses AWS services such as Amazon API Gateway, Amazon Cognito, Amazon DynamoDB, and AWS Lambda …
In this blog post, you’ll learn how to protect privileged business transactions that are exposed as APIs by using multi-factor authentication (MFA) or security challenges. These challenges have two components: what you know (such as passwords), and what you have (such as a one-time password token). By using …
This blog post shows you how to share encrypted Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets across accounts on a multi-tenant data lake. Our objective is to show scalability over a larger volume of accounts that can access the data lake, in a scenario where there is one central …
Your organization can use AWS Security Hub to gain a comprehensive view of your security and compliance posture across your Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment. Security Hub receives security findings from AWS security services and supported third-party products and centralizes them, providing a single view for identifying and analyzing …
Network and security teams often need to evaluate the internet accessibility of all their resources on AWS and block any non-essential internet access. Validating who has access to what can be complicated—there are several different controls that can prevent or authorize access to resources in your Amazon Virtual …
As customers mature their security posture on Amazon Web Services (AWS), they are adopting multiple ways to detect suspicious behavior and notify response teams or workflows to take action. One example is using Amazon GuardDuty to monitor AWS accounts and workloads for malicious activity and deliver detailed security findings …
Using certificates to authenticate and encrypt data is vital to any enterprise security. For example, companies rely on certificates to provide TLS encryption for web applications so that client data is protected. However, not all certificates need to be issued from a publicly trusted certificate authority (CA). A privately …
We’re happy to announce that an updated version of the AWS Security Reference Architecture (AWS SRA) is now available. The AWS SRA is a holistic set of guidelines for deploying the full complement of AWS security services in a multi-account environment. You can use it to help your …
In this blog post, we’ll show you how to use Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall to automatically respond to suspicious DNS queries that are detected by Amazon GuardDuty within your Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment. The Security Pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework includes incident response, stating …
In this blog post, you’ll learn how to detect when unintended access has been granted to sensitive data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets in your Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts. It’s critical for your enterprise to understand where sensitive data is stored in your …
Customers often ask for guidance on permissions boundaries in AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) and when, where, and how to use them. A permissions boundary is an IAM feature that helps your centralized cloud IAM teams to safely empower your application developers to create new IAM roles and …
Many Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers choose to use federation with SAML 2.0 in order to use their existing identity provider (IdP) and avoid managing multiple sources of identities. Some customers have previously configured federation by using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) with the endpoint signin.aws …
AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority (ACM PCA) is a highly available, fully managed private certificate authority (CA) service that allows you to create CA hierarchies and issue X.509 certificates from the CAs you create in ACM PCA. You can then use these certificates for scenarios such as …
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) recently launched new condition keys to make it simpler to control access to your resources along your Amazon Web Services (AWS) organizational boundaries. AWS recommends that you set up multiple accounts as your workloads grow, and you can use multiple AWS accounts to …
Git hooks are scripts that extend Git functionality when certain events and actions occur during code development. Developer teams often use Git hooks to perform quality checks before they commit their code changes. For example, see the blog post Use Git pre-commit hooks to avoid AWS CloudFormation errors for …
Portuguese version AWS is pleased to announce the publication of the Brazil General Data Protection Law Workbook. The General Data Protection Law (LGPD) in Brazil was first published on 14 August 2018, and started its applicability on 18 August 2020. Companies that manage personally identifiable information (PII) in Brazil …
We are pleased to announce that in all AWS Regions that support Amazon Cognito, you can now integrate Amazon Cognito with Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) and Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) in the same Region. By integrating these services in the same Region, you can more …
You can use third-party identity providers (IdPs) such as Okta, Ping, or OneLogin to federate with the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) service using SAML 2.0, allowing your workforce to configure services by providing authorization access to the AWS Management Console or Command Line Interface (CLI). When …
Location data is subjected to heavy scrutiny by security experts. Knowing the current position of a person, vehicle, or asset can provide industries with many benefits, whether to understand where a current delivery is, how many people are inside a venue, or to optimize routing for a fleet of …
AWS Security Hub provides you with a consolidated view of your security posture in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and helps you check your environment against security standards and current AWS security recommendations. Although Security Hub has some similarities to security information and event management (SIEM) tools, it is not …
Organizations who want to federate their external identity provider (IdP) to AWS will typically do it through AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO), AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), or use both. With AWS SSO, you configure federation once and manage access to all of your AWS accounts centrally. With …
March 16, 2022: The title and the opening section of this blog post has been updated. Federating your external identity provider (IdP) to AWS is a best practice. The simplest way to federate into AWS is with AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO). With AWS SSO, you configure federation once …
This blog post shows you how to share encrypted Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets across accounts on a multi-tenant data lake. Our objective is to show scalability over a larger volume of accounts that can access the data lake, in a scenario where there is one central …