Tag: Security

The security landscape continues to evolve, making it a challenge for customers to modernize and stay up to date with use cases and threats. We are excited to expand the AWS Security Competency with eight new categories to help customers find and acquire a range of partner services and software, all of which are validated by AWS and address a full suite of security use cases. To keep up with the fast pace of the security marketplace, these categories will expand over time with additional use cases.

We are excited to highlight 77 AWS Partners that received new designations in June 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.

DataMasque is an AWS Partner that removes sensitive data from the databases and replaces it with realistic and functional masked values that enable effective development, testing, and analytics. This empowers AWS customers to do secure deployments in testing or non-production environments while mitigating the data breach security risks and allowing relevant teams to focus on development and testing of their applications without hinderance.

Learn how to set up an Amazon EC2 Mac instance with a hardened image provided by the Center for Internet Security (CIS). This will help you to mitigate common threats like malware, denial of service, insufficient authorization, and overlapping trust boundary threats. CIS is an AWS Partner and community-driven nonprofit that aims to make the connected world a safer place for people, businesses, and governments.

Learn how the CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark helps organizations operate securely whilst examining the common challenges businesses face in its implementation. Stax can offer a solution to speed up AWS account creation while adhering to the CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark. Creating and configuring AWS accounts securely can be a time-consuming and tedious exercise. Competing priorities can result in rushed or inconsistent process, impacting security, agility, and velocity.

We are excited to highlight 83 AWS Partners that received new designations in May 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.

To meet compliance like PCI-DSS, SOC2, and HIPAA, a customer typically has to change their architecture and workload, which can take significant time, money, and effort. With Very Good Security (VGS), customers retain full control over their data while offloading information security burdens, transferring the risk of a data breach, and fast-tracking compliance. VGS acts as a secure layer between your company and sensitive data.

Organizations are under heightened threat from ransomware incidents as “ransomware as a service” has increased in prevalence, duration, and cost. As a result, they need an integrated approach that addresses the NIST CSF pillars. This post walks you through the components of an offering built on CrowdStrike Falcon Pro, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery Service (AWS DRS), and Presidio DRS Orchestration Layer (DOL).

A key component of a financial institution’s transactional infrastructure is the connectivity to the SWIFT network and the availability of solutions to run this key workload in the cloud. For customers with existing SWIFT connectivity, it’s easy to switch from an on-premises infrastructure to DiXiO’s cloud solution by switching from sending files to their local AutoClient to sending them to DiXiO’s AWS solution through SFTP, MQ, or API. Customers can keep their local infrastructure as a backup initially and later disable it completely.

With proper DevSecOps implementation, security becomes an integral part of the application delivery pipeline, allowing developers to receive rapid and contextual feedback as they build new features. The new DevSecOps category for the AWS DevOps Competency makes it easy for customers to find validated AWS Partners with DevSecOps products. These partners can help customers build secure applications by integrating security controls and policies into their application delivery pipelines.