Category: Security, Identity, & Compliance

Organizations migrating to the cloud face significant security challenges, including regulatory compliance, limited visibility, and skill shortages, which traditional security methods struggle to address. This situation is often exacerbated by delayed security implementations, but tools like Wiz integrated with AWS landing zone can help organizations manage cloud security from the start, enabling successful digital transformation while maintaining robust security measures.

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies is rapidly gaining momentum across various industries, offering a variety of business advantages. However, without implementing robust AI security measures, organizations may face substantial risks, including model poisoning and sensitive data breaches. Learn how Orca Security provides effective strategies to mitigate and prevent these potential threats.

At re:Invent 2024, HashiCorp announces the public beta of pre-written Sentinel policies for AWS. With this new release, AWS customers can gain the immediate benefit of Sentinel policy as code, without having to invest in the heavy lifting of writing their own Sentinel policies from scratch.

In today’s digital landscape, maintaining control over digital assets, or digital sovereignty, has become increasingly crucial, particularly for public sector organizations and regulated industries. We’re excited to announce the AWS Digital Sovereignty Competency—an AWS Specialization that connects customers with trusted Partners to help them leverage the benefits of the cloud, while meeting compliance and regulatory requirements.

In today’s digital landscape, the sheer volume of security data generated across organizations presents a significant challenge. To provide Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers with efficient, scalable, and user-friendly solutions in security data management, we’re excited to announce the Amazon Security Lake Ready Specialization.

AI adoption is rapidly transforming application development while introducing new security risks that demand specialized expertise in areas like data privacy, model integrity, system availability, abuse prevention, and threat detection. To address this, we’re excited to introduce a new AI security category for AWS Security Competency Partners, designed to help customers easily identify Partners with deep experience in securing AI environments and defending workloads against advanced threats and attacks.

In an era where data drives innovation and AI reshapes industries, effective governance and security have become paramount. Recognizing this critical need, AWS has launched a groundbreaking Data & AI Governance and Security partner initiative. This program brings together elite Service and Software partners to tackle the complex challenges organizations face in managing their data and AI assets. Partners joining this initiative gain access to exclusive AWS tools, expertise, and go-to-market support. They also benefit from potential funding opportunities and increased visibility within the AWS ecosystem. For customers, this initiative offers a curated selection of vetted partners equipped with the expertise and tools to navigate the complexities of data and AI governance. By leveraging these partnerships, organizations can build strong foundations for responsible, secure, and innovative data practices while maintaining compliance and ethical standards.

By integrating RCPs into their solutions, these APN partners are helping our joint customers to centrally manage and enforce access controls on their AWS resources at scale. This helps customers align with their organization’s security policies and help mitigate the risk of unintended external access. Customers can use these partner solutions to simplify policy enforcement and rapidly operationalize security across AWS resources in their organization.

Palo Alto Networks faced challenges processing IoT security data at scale. They partnered with AWS to implement a new architecture using Amazon Redshift. This solution improved data processing speeds and created a dedicated pipeline for device data. Key outcomes included 50% faster API responses, real-time data aggregations, 40% infrastructure cost reduction, and improved system resilience. The new architecture enhanced Palo Alto Networks’ ability to serve customers and explore emerging technologies, reinforcing their leadership in IoT security.

By Charles Christopher,Cloud Solution Architect — DXC Technology By Dhiraj Thakur, Solutions Architect — AWS DXC Technology DXC’s client had a requirement to automatically register users’ credentials by utilizing a combination of the user’s unique reference number and other personal information transferred from the government site to the client’s portal. This process was designed to […]