
New – Attributes Based Access Control with AWS Single Sign On
Starting today, you can pass user attributes in the AWS session when your workforce sign-in into the cloud using AWS Single Sign-On. This gives you the centralized account access management of AWS Single Sign-On and ABAC, with the flexibility…

AWS Network Firewall – New Managed Firewall Service in VPC
Our customers want to have a high availability, scalable firewall service to protect their virtual networks in the cloud. Security is the number one priority of AWS, which has provided various firewall capabilities on AWS that address…

New – Using Amazon GuardDuty to Protect Your S3 Buckets
As we anticipated in this post, the anomaly and threat detection for Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) activities that was previously available in Amazon Macie has now been enhanced and reduced in cost by over 80% as part…

Single Sign-On between Okta Universal Directory and AWS
Enterprises adopting the AWS Cloud want to effectively manage identities. Having one central place to manage identities makes it easier to enforce policies, to manage access permissions, and to reduce the overhead by removing the need to duplicate…

New – Enhanced Amazon Macie Now Available with Substantially Reduced Pricing
Amazon Macie is a fully managed service that helps you discover and protect your sensitive data, using machine learning to automatically spot and classify data for you.Over time, Macie customers told us what they like, and what they didn’t. The…

Amazon Detective – Rapid Security Investigation and Analysis
Almost five years ago, I blogged about a solution that automatically analyzes AWS CloudTrail data to generate alerts upon sensitive API usage. It was a simple and basic solution for security analysis and automation. But demanding AWS customers…

Identify Unintended Resource Access with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer
Today I get to share my favorite kind of announcement. It’s the sort of thing that will improve security for just about everyone that builds on AWS, it can be turned on with almost no configuration, and it costs nothing to use. We’re…

Announcing AWS Managed Rules for AWS WAF
Building and deploying secure applications is critical work, and the threat landscape is always shifting. We’re constantly working to reduce the pain of maintaining a strong cloud security posture. Today we’re launching a new…

New for Identity Federation – Use Employee Attributes for Access Control in AWS
When you manage access to resources on AWS or many other systems, you most probably use Role-Based Access Control (RBAC). When you use RBAC, you define access permissions to resources, group these permissions in policies, assign policies…

Learn about AWS Services & Solutions – September AWS Online Tech Talks
Learn about AWS Services & Solutions – September AWS Online Tech Talks
Join us this September to learn about AWS services and solutions. The AWS Online Tech Talks are live, online presentations that cover a broad range of topics…