Japanese | Korean | Spanish We continue to listen to our customers, regulators, and stakeholders to understand their needs regarding audit, assurance, certification, and attestation programs at Amazon Web Services (AWS). We are pleased to announce that for the first time an AWS System and Organization Controls (SOC) 1 report is now available in Japanese and Korean, along with Spanish. This translated report will help drive greater engagement and alignment with customer and regulatory requirements across Japan, Korea, Latin America, and Spain. The Japanese, Korean, and Spanish language versions ..read more

In an ever-changing security landscape, teams must be able to quickly remediate security risks. Many organizations look for ways to automate the remediation of security findings that are currently handled manually. Amazon CodeWhisperer is an artificial intelligence (AI) coding companion that generates real-time, single-line or full-function code suggestions in your integrated development environment (IDE) to help you quickly build software. By using CodeWhisperer, security teams can expedite the process of writing security automation scripts for various types of findings that are aggregated in ..read more

Today, AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) is introducing faster options for automatic symmetric key rotation. We’re also introducing rotate on-demand, rotation visibility improvements, and a new limit on the price of all symmetric keys that have had two or more rotations (including existing keys). In this post, I discuss all those capabilities and changes. I also present a broader overview of how symmetric cryptographic key rotation came to be, and cover our recommendations on when you might need rotation and how often to rotate your keys. If you’ve ever been curious about AWS KMS automatic ..read more

In the evolving landscape of network security, safeguarding data as it exits your virtual environment is as crucial as protecting incoming traffic. In a previous post, we highlighted the significance of ingress TLS inspection in enhancing security within Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments. Building on that foundation, I focus on egress TLS inspection in this post. Egress TLS decryption, a pivotal feature of AWS Network Firewall, offers a robust mechanism to decrypt, inspect the payload, and re-encrypt outbound SSL/TLS traffic. This process helps ensure that your sensitive data remains secu ..read more

Continually reviewing your organization’s incident response capabilities can be challenging without a mechanism to create security findings with actual Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources within your AWS estate. As prescribed within the AWS Security Incident Response whitepaper, it’s important to periodically review your incident response capabilities to make sure your security team is continually maturing internal processes and assessing capabilities within AWS. Generating sample security findings is useful to understand the finding format so you can enrich the finding with additional metadat ..read more

As the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at AWS, I’m personally committed to helping security teams of all skill levels and sizes navigate security for generative artificial intelligence (AI). As a former AWS customer, I know the value of hands-on security learning and talking in-person to the people who build and run AWS security. That’s why I’m excited for you to join me at AWS re:Inforce 2024, our annual cloud security event, where you can collaborate with experts, partners, and the builders who are driving the future of security in the generative AI era. Whether you want to build ..read more

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has captured the imagination of organizations and individuals around the world, and many have already adopted it to help improve workforce productivity, transform customer experiences, and more. When you use a generative AI-based service, you should understand how the information that you enter into the application is stored, processed, shared, and used by the model provider or the provider of the environment that the model runs in. Organizations that offer generative AI solutions have a responsibility to their users and consumers to build appropriate sa ..read more

Implementing authentication and authorization mechanisms in modern applications can be challenging, especially when dealing with various client types and use cases. As developers, we often struggle to choose the right authentication flow to balance security, user experience, and application requirements. This is where understanding the OAuth 2.0 grant types comes into play. Whether you’re building a traditional web application, a mobile app, or a machine-to-machine communication system, understanding the OAuth 2.0 grant types can help you implement robust and secure authentication and authoriz ..read more

As we’ve innovated and expanded the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud, we continue to prioritize making sure customers are in control and able to meet regulatory requirements anywhere they operate. With the AWS Digital Sovereignty Pledge, which is our commitment to offering all AWS customers the most advanced set of sovereignty controls and features available in the cloud, we are investing in an ambitious roadmap of capabilities for data residency, granular access restriction, encryption, and resilience. Today, I’ll focus on the resilience pillar of our pledge and share how customers are able to ..read more

Implementing user authentication and authorization for custom applications requires significant effort. For authentication, customers often use an external identity provider (IdP) such as Amazon Cognito. Yet, authorization logic is typically implemented in code. This code can be prone to errors, especially as permissions models become complex, and presents significant challenges when auditing permissions and deciding who has access to what. As a result, within Common Weakness Enumeration’s (CWE’s) list of the Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses for 2023, four are related to incorrect aut ..read more