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Elevate your AI security: Must-see re:Inforce 2025 sessions

A full conference pass is $1,099. Register today with the code flashsale150 to receive a limited time $150 discount, while supplies last. From proof of concepts to large scale production deployments, the rapid advancement of generative AI has ushered in unique opportunities for innovation, but it also introduces a new set of security challenges (and […]

Navigating the threat detection and incident response track at re:Inforce 2025

A full conference pass is $1,099. Register today with the code flashsale150 to receive a limited time $150 discount, while supplies last. We’re counting down to AWS re:Inforce, our annual cloud security event! We are thrilled to invite security enthusiasts and builders to join us in Philadelphia, PA June 16–18, 2025, for an immersive three-day […]

Using HAQM Detective for IAM investigations

January 31, 2025: This post was revised to update several paragraphs in the section Scenario 1: Automated investigations. Uncovering  AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users and roles potentially involved in a security event can be a challenging task, requiring security analysts to gather and analyze data from various sources, and determine the full scope […]

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Navigating the threat detection and incident response track at re:Inforce 2024

A full conference pass is $1,099. Register today with the code flashsale150 to receive a limited time $150 discount, while supplies last. We’re counting down to AWS re:Inforce, our annual cloud security event! We are thrilled to invite security enthusiasts and builders to join us in Philadelphia, PA, from June 10–12 for an immersive two-and-a-half-day […]

Investigating lateral movements with HAQM Detective investigation and Security Lake integration

According to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, lateral movement consists of techniques that threat actors use to enter and control remote systems on a network. In HAQM Web Services (AWS) environments, threat actors equipped with illegitimately obtained credentials could potentially use APIs to interact with infrastructures and services directly, and they might even be able to use […]

Building a security-first mindset: three key themes from AWS re:Invent 2023

AWS re:Invent drew 52,000 attendees from across the globe to Las Vegas, Nevada, November 27 to December 1, 2023. Now in its 12th year, the conference featured 5 keynotes, 17 innovation talks, and over 2,250 sessions and hands-on labs offering immersive learning and networking opportunities. HAQM CSO Stephen Schmidt With dozens of service and feature […]

Improve your security investigations with Detective finding groups visualizations

At AWS, we often hear from customers that they want expanded security coverage for the multiple services that they use on AWS. However, alert fatigue is a common challenge that customers face as we introduce new security protections. The challenge becomes how to operationalize, identify, and prioritize alerts that represent real risk. In this post, […]

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Three ways to accelerate incident response in the cloud: insights from re:Inforce 2023

AWS re:Inforce took place in Anaheim, California, on June 13–14, 2023. AWS customers, partners, and industry peers participated in hundreds of technical and non-technical security-focused sessions across six tracks, an Expo featuring AWS experts and AWS Security Competency Partners, and keynote and leadership sessions. The threat detection and incident response track showcased how AWS customers […]

Reduce triage time for security investigations with HAQM Detective visualizations and export data

To respond to emerging threats, you will often need to sort through large datasets rapidly to prioritize security findings. HAQM Detective recently released two new features to help you do this. New visualizations in Detective show the connections between entities related to multiple HAQM GuardDuty findings, and a new export data feature helps you use […]

How to improve security incident investigations using HAQM Detective finding groups

Uncovering the root cause of an HAQM GuardDuty finding can be a complex task, requiring security operations center (SOC) analysts to collect a variety of logs, correlate information across logs, and determine the full scope of affected resources. Sometimes you need to do this type of in-depth analysis because investigating individual security findings in insolation […]