Category: Thought Leadership

Wicked6 Cyber Games 2025 brought hundreds of women together worldwide from March 28–30. This dynamic virtual competition, sponsored by HAQM Web Services (AWS), helped attendees tackle real-world cybersecurity challenges through e-sports experiences. With 72 hours of women talking about cybersecurity, 11 cybersecurity games, and an attack and defense tournament streamed live, the weekend-long event highlighted […]

April 9, 2025: We updated content about HAQM Bedrock Guardrails to cover the recently added condition key bedrock:GuardrailIdentifier. March 27, 2025: Two policies in this post were updated. Generative AI applications often involve a combination of various services and features—such as HAQM Bedrock and large language models (LLMs)—to generate content and to access potentially confidential […]

If you’d like to skip directly to the detailed mapping between the CISA guidance and AWS security controls and best practices, visit our Github page.  Implementing CISA’s enhanced visibility and hardening guidance for communications infrastructure In response to recent cybersecurity incidents attributed to actors from the People’s Republic of China, a number of cybersecurity agencies […]

In part 1 of this blog series, we walked through the risks associated with using sensitive data as part of your generative AI application. This overview provided a baseline of the challenges of using sensitive data with a non-deterministic large language model (LLM) and how to mitigate these challenges with HAQM Bedrock Agents. The next […]

Cybersecurity isn’t just about technology—it’s about people. That’s why HAQM Web Services (AWS) partnered with the BBC to explore the human side of cybersecurity in our latest article, The Human Side of Cybersecurity: Building a Culture of Security, available on the BBC website. In the piece, we spotlight the AWS Security Guardians program and how […]

Securing an event of the magnitude of AWS re:Invent—the HAQM Web Services annual conference in Las Vegas—is no small feat. The most recent event, in December, operated on the scale of a small city, spanning seven venues over twelve miles and nearly seven million square feet across the bustling Las Vegas Strip. Keeping all 60,000 […]

Establishing and maintaining an effective security and governance posture has never been more important for enterprises. This post explains how you, as a security administrator, can use HAQM Web Services (AWS) to enforce resource configurations in a manner that is designed to be secure, scalable, and primarily focused on feature gating. In this context, feature […]

As organizations increasingly use generative AI to streamline processes, enhance efficiency, and gain a competitive edge in today’s fast-paced business environment, they seek mechanisms for measuring and monitoring their use of AI services. To help you navigate the process of adopting generative AI technologies and proactively measure your generative AI implementation, AWS developed the AWS […]

According to a 2024 Verizon report, nearly 70% of data breaches occurred because a person was manipulated by social engineering or made some type of error. This highlights the importance of human-layer defenses in an organization’s security strategy. In addition to technology, tools, and processes, security requires awareness and action from everyone in an organization […]

HAQM Web Services (AWS) is migrating to post-quantum cryptography (PQC). Like other security and compliance features in AWS, we will deliver PQC as part of our shared responsibility model. This means that some PQC features will be transparently enabled for all customers while others will be options that customers can choose to implement to help meet their […]