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Tag: Amazon S3

How to use AWS Transfer Family and GuardDuty for malware protection

Organizations often need to securely share files with external parties over the internet. Allowing public access to a file transfer server exposes the organization to potential threats, such as malware-infected files uploaded by threat actors or inadvertently by genuine users. To mitigate this risk, companies can take steps to help make sure that files received […]

Using Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection to scan uploads to Amazon S3

May 28, 2025: In the section Extend the solution, we fixed a typo in the code related to deleting source objects. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a widely used object storage service known for its scalability, availability, durability, security, and performance. When sharing data between organizations, customers need to treat incoming data as […]

Enhance container software supply chain visibility through SBOM export with Amazon Inspector and QuickSight

In this post, I’ll show how you can export software bills of materials (SBOMs) for your containers by using an AWS native service, Amazon Inspector, and visualize the SBOMs through Amazon QuickSight, providing a single-pane-of-glass view of your organization’s software supply chain. The concept of a bill of materials (BOM) originated in the manufacturing industry […]

Amazon Macie

Detect Stripe keys in S3 buckets with Amazon Macie

Many customers building applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS) use Stripe global payment services to help get their product out faster and grow revenue, especially in the internet economy. It’s critical for customers to securely and properly handle the credentials used to authenticate with Stripe services. Much like your AWS API keys, which enable access […]

Amazon Macie

How to use Amazon Macie to reduce the cost of discovering sensitive data

April 3, 2023: This post had been edited to get Figure 3 updated. Amazon Macie is a fully managed data security service that uses machine learning and pattern matching to discover and help protect your sensitive data, such as personally identifiable information (PII), payment card data, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) credentials. Analyzing large volumes […]

The anatomy of ransomware event targeting data residing in Amazon S3

Ransomware events have significantly increased over the past several years and captured worldwide attention. Traditional ransomware events affect mostly infrastructure resources like servers, databases, and connected file systems. However, there are also non-traditional events that you may not be as familiar with, such as ransomware events that target data stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service […]

How to query and visualize Macie sensitive data discovery results with Athena and QuickSight

February 21, 2023: We’ve updated the CREATE TABLE DDL to add the new originType field introduced as part of the Automated Sensitive Data Discovery feature of Macie. Amazon Macie is a fully managed data security service that uses machine learning and pattern matching to help you discover and protect sensitive data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). With […]

AWS CIRT announces the release of five publicly available workshops

Greetings from the AWS Customer Incident Response Team (CIRT)! AWS CIRT is dedicated to supporting customers during active security events on the customer side of the AWS Shared Responsibility Model. Over the past year, AWS CIRT has responded to hundreds of such security events, including the unauthorized use of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) […]

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How to export AWS Security Hub findings to CSV format

December 22, 2022: We are working on an update to address issues related to cloudformation stack deployment in regions other than us-east-1, and Lambda timeouts for customers with more than 100,000 findings. AWS Security Hub is a central dashboard for security, risk management, and compliance findings from AWS Audit Manager, AWS Firewall Manager, Amazon GuardDuty, […]

Top 2021 AWS service launches security professionals should review – Part 2

In Part 1 of this two-part series, we shared an overview of some of the most important 2021 Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security service and feature launches. In this follow-up, we’ll dive deep into additional launches that are important for security professionals to be aware of and understand across all AWS services. There have already […]