Tag: Security

The notion of shared responsibility has become very popular in the public cloud, and rightly so. This post focuses on helping organizations achieve their part of shared responsibility—security in the cloud. We start by introducing three areas of responsibility—configuration, access, and data—and then illustrate how tools from AWS Security Competency Partner Zscaler can address security and compliance issues in each of these areas.

Most financial institutions are at different stages of their cloud journey. Many are challenged with delivering new and enhanced services, providing services faster, and driving operational efficiencies while facing increasingly competitive markets. Learn how Avaloq has laid a good foundation to help businesses ease the journey of testing and integrating new solutions by managing the complexities across various phases utilizing Avaloq’s sandbox solution powered by AWS.

It can be difficult to gain security insights into your cloud infrastructure, especially as architectures grow to encompass multiple availability zones, regions, and clouds. Aviatrix Systems is uniquely positioned to provide deep insights into network traffic that can augment AWS-native security capabilities. In this post, we detail new capabilities that were recently added to the Aviatrix Secure Network Platform—ThreatIQ and ThreatGuard.

From a wide range of AWS Partner success stories to new partner programs launched at AWS re:Invent, here’s a look at the most popular APN Blog posts we shared in 2021. Our goal with this blog has always been to share timely and relevant news, technical solutions, partner stories, and more from Amazon Web Services and the AWS Partner Network (APN) specifically. Thank you for reading the APN Blog, and Happy New Year to all our AWS Partners and customers!

In today’s highly complex and dynamic application ecosystem, in addition to a growing virtual workforce, it’s imperative for organizations to have an automated system in place to handle security and compliance. Learn how AWS Security Competency Partner SailPoint has integrated with Amazon EventBridge to solve various use cases for their customers. This platform, SailPoint IdentityNow, provides the benefits of combining SailPoint identity security with Amazon EventBridge to automate security and compliance.

We are excited to highlight 125 AWS Partners that received new designations in November for our global AWS Competency, AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP), AWS Service Delivery, and AWS Service Ready programs. These designations span workload, solution, and industry, and help AWS customers identify top AWS Partners that can deliver on core business objectives. AWS Partners are focused on your success, helping customers take full advantage of the business benefits AWS has to offer.

AWS CloudHSM enables you to generate and use your own encryption keys on AWS. The standard service for managing keys for signing would usually be AWS KMS, but due to legacy requirements from the customer side the team at BJSS needed to support both SHA256 and SHA1. Learn how BJSS successfully signed some data with a key from AWS CloudHSM using Python, and walk through the setup of an AWS CloudHSM cluster for testing using a sample application.

Ransomware hardly needs an introduction for those who work in cybersecurity, maintain web properties, or work in corporate IT. In this post by the director of application security solutions at Barracuda Networks, learn about the role application security plays in preventing the spread of ransomware and explore several examples of how you can use Barracuda’s CloudGen WAF to further protect your application running on AWS. Barracuda is an AWS Security Competency Partner.

AWS is enabling a new era of data and analytics, fueled by the cloud, advanced data management, and data science tools. Explore how organizations can leverage automation and modern access control models to scale cloud adoption, accelerate time to access data, and decrease risk. With Immuta, organizations can finally unlock the full value of their data while improving productivity, reducing time to data, maintaining strong security, and enabling new data sharing use cases.

AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) is where you create or connect your workforce identities in AWS once and manage access centrally across your AWS Organization. Learn about the new integration with CyberArk Workforce Identity to provide simplified access management and provisioning to AWS. With this integration, you can have a single point of truth for all enterprise identities and enforce consistent management of users, groups, permissions, and access policies while reducing redundancies and errors.