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AWS Security Profiles: Greg McConnel, Senior Manager, Security Specialists Team

In the weeks leading up to re:Invent 2019, we’ll share conversations we’ve had with people at AWS who will be presenting at the event so you can learn more about them and some of the interesting work that they’re doing. How long have you been at AWS, and what do you do in your current […]

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Your AWS re:Invent 2019 guide to AWS Identity sessions, workshops, and chalk talks

November 6, 2019: Post updated to include four new sessions — SEC316, SEC317, OIG304, and ACT17. AWS re:Invent 2019 is coming fast! You’ll soon need to prioritize your sessions. Here’s a list of AWS Identity sessions, workshops, and chalk talks at AWS re:Invent 2019. If you haven’t registered yet for re:Invent, here’s a template you […]

AWS Security Profile: Ron Cully, Principal Product Manager, AWS Identity

September 12, 2022: This blog post has been updated to reflect the new name of AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) – AWS IAM Identity Center. Read more about the name change here. In the weeks leading up to re:Invent, we’ll share conversations we’ve had with people at AWS who will be presenting at the event so […]

AWS achieves FedRAMP JAB High and Moderate Provisional Authorization across 18 services in the AWS US East/West and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

September 9, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. It’s my pleasure to announce that we’ve expanded the number of AWS services that customers can use to run sensitive and highly regulated workloads in the federal government space. This expansion of our FedRAMP program marks a 28.6% increase in […]

Updated whitepaper available: “Navigating GDPR Compliance on AWS”

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR) safeguards EU citizens’ fundamental right to privacy and to personal data protection. In order to make local regulations coherent and homogeneous, the GDPR introduces and defines stringent new standards in terms of compliance, security and data protection. The updated version of our Navigating GDPR Compliance on […]

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AWS Security Profile: Byron Cook, Director of the AWS Automated Reasoning Group

Byron Cook leads the AWS Automated Reasoning Group, which automates proof search in mathematical logic and builds tools that provide AWS customers with provable security. Byron has pushed boundaries in this field, delivered real-world applications in the cloud, and fostered a sense of community amongst its practitioners. In recognition of Byron’s contributions to cloud security […]

Tips for building a cloud security operating model in the financial services industry

My team helps financial services customers understand how AWS services operate so that you can incorporate AWS into your existing processes and security operations centers (SOCs). As soon as you create your first AWS account for your organization, you’re live in the cloud. So, from day one, you should be equipped with certain information: you […]

AWS and the European Banking Authority Guidelines on Outsourcing

Financial institutions across the globe use AWS to transform the way they do business. It’s exciting to watch our customers in the financial services industry innovate on AWS in unique ways, across all geos and use cases. Regulations continue to evolve in this space, and we’re working hard to help customers proactively respond to new […]

64 AWS services achieve HITRUST certification

We’re excited to announce that 64 AWS services are now certified for the Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) Common Security Framework (CSF). The full list of AWS services that were audited by a third party auditor and certified under HITRUST CSF is available on our Services in Scope by Compliance Program page. You can view […]

Nine AWS Security Hub best practices

July 21, 2020: The advice about enabling Security Hub in every region where you have authorized activity was updated. AWS Security Hub is a security and compliance service that became generally available on June 25, 2019. It provides you with extensive visibility into your security and compliance status across multiple AWS accounts, in a single […]