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Protect your Amazon Cognito user pool with AWS WAF

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Many of our customers use Amazon Cognito user pools to add authentication, authorization, and user management capabilities to their web and mobile applications. You can enable the built-in advanced security in Amazon Cognito to detect and block the use of credentials that have been compromised elsewhere, and to detect …

Analyze Amazon Cognito advanced security intelligence to improve visibility and protection

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As your organization looks to improve your security posture and practices, early detection and prevention of unauthorized activity quickly becomes one of your main priorities. The behaviors associated with unauthorized activity commonly follow patterns that you can analyze in order to create specific mitigations or feed data into your …

How to automatically build forensic kernel modules for Amazon Linux EC2 instances

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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 …

Implement step-up authentication with Amazon Cognito, Part 2: Deploy and test the solution

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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 …

Implement step-up authentication with Amazon Cognito, Part 1: Solution overview

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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 …

Amazon Cognito launches support for in-Region integration with Amazon SES and Amazon SNS

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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 …

Security practices in AWS multi-tenant SaaS environments

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Securing software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications is a top priority for all application architects and developers. Doing so in an environment shared by multiple tenants can be even more challenging. Identity frameworks and concepts can take time to understand, and forming tenant isolation in these environments requires deep understanding of different …