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Prepare your AWS workloads for the “Operational risks and resilience – banks” FINMA Circular

In December 2022, FINMA, the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority, announced a fully revised circular called Operational risks and resilience – banks that will take effect on January 1, 2024. The circular will replace the Swiss Bankers Association’s Recommendations for Business Continuity Management (BCM), which is currently recognized as a minimum standard. The new circular […]

Scaling national identity schemes with itsme and Amazon Cognito

In this post, we demonstrate how you can use identity federation and integration between the identity provider itsme® and Amazon Cognito to quickly consume and build digital services for citizens on Amazon Web Services (AWS) using available national digital identities. We also provide code examples and integration proofs of concept to get you started quickly. […]

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Evolving cyber threats demand new security approaches – The benefits of a unified and global IT/OT SOC

In this blog post, we discuss some of the benefits and considerations organizations should think through when looking at a unified and global information technology and operational technology (IT/OT) security operations center (SOC). Although this post focuses on the IT/OT convergence within the SOC, you can use the concepts and ideas discussed here when thinking […]

Mask and redact sensitive data published to Amazon SNS using managed and custom data identifiers

Today, we’re announcing a new capability for Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) message data protection. In this post, we show you how you can use this new capability to create custom data identifiers to detect and protect domain-specific sensitive data, such as your company’s employee IDs. Previously, you could only use managed data identifiers […]

IAM Roles Anywhere with an external certificate authority

IAM Roles Anywhere with an external certificate authority

AWS Identity and Access Management Roles Anywhere allows you to use temporary Amazon Web Services (AWS) credentials outside of AWS by using X.509 Certificates issued by your certificate authority (CA). Faraz Angabini goes deep into using IAM Roles Anywhere in his blog post Extend AWS IAM roles to workloads outside of AWS with IAM Roles […]

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Securing generative AI: An introduction to the Generative AI Security Scoping Matrix

Generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) has captured the imagination of organizations and is transforming the customer experience in industries of every size across the globe. This leap in AI capability, fueled by multi-billion-parameter large language models (LLMs) and transformer neural networks, has opened the door to new productivity improvements, creative capabilities, and more. As organizations […]

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AWS announces Cloud Companion Guide for the CSA Cyber Trust mark

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is excited to announce the release of a new Cloud Companion Guide to help customers prepare for the Cyber Trust mark developed by the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA). The Cloud Companion Guide to the CSA’s Cyber Trust mark provides guidance and a mapping of AWS services and features to […]

Enable Security Hub partner integrations across your organization

AWS Security Hub offers over 75 third-party partner product integrations, such as Palo Alto Networks Prisma, Prowler, Qualys, Wiz, and more, that you can use to send, receive, or update findings in Security Hub. We recommend that you enable your corresponding Security Hub third-party partner product integrations when you use these partner solutions. By centralizing […]

Validate IAM policies with Access Analyzer using AWS Config rules

You can use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer policy validation to validate IAM policies against IAM policy grammar and best practices. The findings generated by Access Analyzer policy validation include errors, security warnings, general warnings, and suggestions for your policy. These findings provide actionable recommendations that help you author policies that are functional and conform […]

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How to use AWS Certificate Manager to enforce certificate issuance controls

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) lets you provision, manage, and deploy public and private Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates for use with AWS services and your internal connected resources. You probably have many users, applications, or accounts that request and use TLS certificates as part of your public key infrastructure (PKI); which means you might also need […]