Tag: HAQM S3

HAQM Simple Storage Service (HAQM S3) is a widely used object storage service known for its scalability, availability, durability, security, and performance. When sharing data between organizations, customers need to treat incoming data as untrusted and assess it for malicious files before ingesting it into their downstream processes. This traditionally requires setting up secure staging […]

In this post, I’ll show how you can export software bills of materials (SBOMs) for your containers by using an AWS native service, HAQM Inspector, and visualize the SBOMs through HAQM QuickSight, providing a single-pane-of-glass view of your organization’s software supply chain. The concept of a bill of materials (BOM) originated in the manufacturing industry […]

Many customers building applications on HAQM Web Services (AWS) use Stripe global payment services to help get their product out faster and grow revenue, especially in the internet economy. It’s critical for customers to securely and properly handle the credentials used to authenticate with Stripe services. Much like your AWS API keys, which enable access […]

April 3, 2023: This post had been edited to get Figure 3 updated. HAQM Macie is a fully managed data security service that uses machine learning and pattern matching to discover and help protect your sensitive data, such as personally identifiable information (PII), payment card data, and HAQM Web Services (AWS) credentials. Analyzing large volumes […]

Ransomware events have significantly increased over the past several years and captured worldwide attention. Traditional ransomware events affect mostly infrastructure resources like servers, databases, and connected file systems. However, there are also non-traditional events that you may not be as familiar with, such as ransomware events that target data stored in HAQM Simple Storage Service […]

February 21, 2023: We’ve updated the CREATE TABLE DDL to add the new originType field introduced as part of the Automated Sensitive Data Discovery feature of Macie. HAQM Macie is a fully managed data security service that uses machine learning and pattern matching to help you discover and protect sensitive data in HAQM Simple Storage Service (HAQM S3). With […]

Greetings from the AWS Customer Incident Response Team (CIRT)! AWS CIRT is dedicated to supporting customers during active security events on the customer side of the AWS Shared Responsibility Model. Over the past year, AWS CIRT has responded to hundreds of such security events, including the unauthorized use of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) […]

December 22, 2022: We are working on an update to address issues related to cloudformation stack deployment in regions other than us-east-1, and Lambda timeouts for customers with more than 100,000 findings. AWS Security Hub is a central dashboard for security, risk management, and compliance findings from AWS Audit Manager, AWS Firewall Manager, HAQM GuardDuty, […]

In Part 1 of this two-part series, we shared an overview of some of the most important 2021 HAQM Web Services (AWS) Security service and feature launches. In this follow-up, we’ll dive deep into additional launches that are important for security professionals to be aware of and understand across all AWS services. There have already […]

With more than 100 trillion objects in HAQM Simple Storage Service (HAQM S3) and an almost unimaginably broad set of use cases, securing data stored in HAQM S3 is important for every organization. So, we’ve curated the top 10 controls for securing your data in S3. By default, all S3 buckets are private and can […]