At AWS re:Inforce 2025 (June 16-18, Philadelphia), AWS Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer Amy Herzog delivered the keynote address, announcing new security innovations. Throughout the event, AWS announced additional security capabilities focused on simplifying security at scale and enabling organizations to build more resilient applications in the cloud. Below is a comprehensive roundup…
Today, I’m happy to announce Amazon GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection with expanded coverage for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), building upon the capabilities we introduced in our AWS re:Invent 2024 announcement of Amazon GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection: AI/ML attack sequence identification for enhanced cloud security. Security teams managing Kubernetes workloads often struggle to detect…
AWS Security Hub has been a central place for you to view and aggregate security alerts and compliance status across Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts. Today, we are announcing the preview release of the new AWS Security Hub which offers additional correlation, contextualization, and visualization capabilities. This helps you prioritize critical security issues, respond at scale…
Today, we’re announcing the general availability of a new capability that integrates AWS Backup logically air-gapped vaults with Multi-party approval to provide access to your backups even when your AWS account is inaccessible due to inadvertent or malicious events. AWS Backup is a fully managed service that centralizes and automates data protection across AWS services…
Today, I’m happy to announce AWS Shield network security director (preview), a capability that simplifies identification of configuration issues related to threats such as SQL injections and distributed denial of service (DDoS) events, and proposes remediations. This feature identifies and analyzes network resources, connections, and configurations. It compares them against AWS best practices to create…
Today, we’re announcing a new simplified onboarding experience for Amazon CloudFront that developers can use to accelerate and secure their web applications in seconds. This new experience, along with improvements to the AWS WAF console experience, makes it easier than ever for developers to configure content delivery and security services without requiring deep technical expertise.…