The new IRAP report includes an additional six AWS services that are now assessed at the PROTECTED level under IRAP. This brings the total number of services assessed at the PROTECTED level to 164.
The following are the six newly assessed services:
AWS has developed an IRAP documentation pack to help Australian customers and their partners plan, architect, and assess risk for their workloads when they use AWS Cloud services.
The IRAP pack on AWS Artifact also includes newly updated versions of the AWS Consumer Guide and the whitepaper Reference Architectures for ISM PROTECTED Workloads in the AWS Cloud.
Reach out to your AWS representatives to let us know which additional services you would like to see in scope for upcoming IRAP assessments. We strive to bring more services into scope at the PROTECTED level under IRAP to support your requirements.
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The new IRAP report includes an additional seven AWS services that are now assessed at the PROTECTED level under IRAP. This brings the total number of services assessed at the PROTECTED level to 158.
The following are the seven newly assessed services:
Many Australian customers are looking to experiment with how generative AI applications can help them better serve the Australian public. Customers can use two of the newly assessed services—Amazon Bedrock and Amazon DataZone—to help align with their governance, sovereignty, and security requirements up to the PROTECTED level:
Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing large language models (LLMs) and other foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies like AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Mistral AI, Stability AI, as well as Amazon through a single API. Amazon Bedrock also provides a broad set of capabilities customers need to build generative AI applications with security, privacy, and responsible AI.
Amazon DataZone is a data management service that makes it faster and simpler for customers to catalog, discover, share, and govern data stored across AWS, on premises, and third-party sources.
AWS has developed an IRAP documentation pack to help Australian customers and their partners to plan, architect, and assess risk for their workloads when they use AWS Cloud services.
The IRAP pack on AWS Artifact also includes newly updated versions of the AWS Consumer Guide and the whitepaper Reference Architectures for ISM PROTECTED Workloads in the AWS Cloud.
Reach out to your AWS representatives to let us know which additional services you would like to see in scope for upcoming IRAP assessments. We strive to bring more services into scope at the PROTECTED level under IRAP to support your requirements.
If you have feedback about this post, submit comments in the Comments section below. If you have questions about this post, contact AWS Support.
The new IRAP report includes an additional seven AWS services that are now assessed at the PROTECTED level under IRAP. This brings the total number of services assessed at the PROTECTED level to 151.
The following are the seven newly assessed services:
AWS has developed an IRAP documentation pack to assist Australian government agencies and their partners to plan, architect, and assess risk for their workloads when they use AWS Cloud services.
The IRAP pack on AWS Artifact also includes newly updated versions of the AWS Consumer Guide and the whitepaper Reference Architectures for ISM PROTECTED Workloads in the AWS Cloud.
Reach out to your AWS representatives to let us know which additional services you would like to see in scope for upcoming IRAP assessments. We strive to bring more services into scope at the PROTECTED level under IRAP to support your requirements.
If you have feedback about this post, submit comments in the Comments section below. If you have questions about this post, contact AWS Support.
Cloud technology provides organizations across Australia and New Zealand with the flexibility to adapt quickly and scale their digital presences up or down in response to consumer demand. In 2021 and beyond, we expect to see cloud adoption continue to accelerate as organizations of all sizes realize the agility, operational, and financial benefits of moving to the cloud.
To fully harness the benefits of the digital economy it’s important that you remain vigilant about the security of your technology resources in order to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your systems and data. Security is our top priority at AWS, and more than ever we believe it’s critical for everyone to understand the best practices to use cloud technology securely. Organizations of all sizes can benefit by implementing automated guardrails that allow you to innovate while maintaining the highest security standards. We want to help you move fast and innovate quickly while staying secure.
The new website offers many resources specific to Australia and New Zealand, including:
The latest local security and privacy updates from AWS security experts in Australia and New Zealand.
How customers can use AWS to help meet the requirements of local privacy laws, government security standards, and banking security guidance.
Local customer stories about Australian and New Zealand companies and agencies that focus on security, privacy, and compliance.
Details about AWS infrastructure in Australia and New Zealand, including the upcoming AWS Region in Melbourne.
General FAQs on security and privacy in the cloud.
AWS maintains the highest security and privacy practices, which is one reason we are trusted by governments and organizations around the world to deliver services to millions of individuals. In Australia and New Zealand, we have hundreds of thousands of active customers using AWS each month, with many building mission critical applications for their business. For example, the National Bank of Australia (NAB) provides banking platforms like NAB Connect that offer services to businesses of all sizes, built on AWS. The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) offers the flexibility and speed for all Australians to lodge their tax returns electronically on the MyTax application, built on AWS. The University of Auckland runs critical teaching and learning applications relied on by their 18,000 students around the world, built on AWS. AWS Partner Versent helps businesses like Transurban and government agencies like Service NSW operate in the cloud securely, built on AWS.
Security is a shared responsibility between AWS and our customers. You should review the security features that we provide with our services, and be familiar with how to implement your security requirements within your AWS environment. To help you with your responsibility, we offer security services and partner solutions that you can utilize to implement automated and effective security in the cloud. This allows you to focus on your business while keeping your content and applications secure.
We’re inspired by the rapid rate of innovation as customers of all sizes use the cloud to create new business models and work to improve our communities, now and into the future. We look forward to seeing what you will build next on AWS – with security as your top priority.
We are excited to announce that a new Information Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) report is now available on AWS Artifact. The new IRAP documentation pack brings new services in scope, and includes a Cloud Security Control Matrix (CSCM) for specific information to help customers assess each applicable control that is required by the Australian Government Information Security Manual (ISM).
The scope of the new IRAP report includes a reassessment of 92 services, and adds 5 additional services: Amazon Macie, AWS Backup, AWS CodePipeline, AWS Control Tower, and AWS X-Ray. With the additional 5 services in scope of this cycle, we now have a total of 97 services assessed at the PROTECTED level. This provides more capabilities for our Australian government customers to deploy workloads at the PROTECTED level across security, storage, developer tools, and governance. For the full list of services, see the AWS Services in Scope page and select the IRAP tab. All services in scope for IRAP are available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region.
We created the IRAP documentation pack to help Australian government agencies and their partners to plan, architect, and risk assess their workload based on AWS Cloud services. Please reach out to your AWS representatives to let us know what additional services you would like to see in scope for coming IRAP assessments. We strive to bring more services into the scope of the IRAP PROTECTED level, based on your requirements.
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In July 2020, we announced that 92 Amazon Web Services (AWS) services had successfully assessed compliant with the Australian government’s Information Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) for operating workloads at the PROTECTED level. This enables organizations to use AWS to build a wide range of applications and services for the benefit of all residents of Australia.
We’re excited to announce the publication of the Reference Architectures for ISM PROTECTED Workloads in the AWS Cloud whitepaper and the AWS Consumer Guide that are now available in the IRAP documentation package in AWS Artifact. The material provides additional guidance to customers seeking to secure their workloads in AWS Cloud in accordance with the requirements of the Australian government’s Information Security Manual (ISM).
The new Reference Architectures for ISM PROTECTED Workloads in the AWS Cloud whitepaper contains five example patterns that demonstrate how ISM PROTECTED AWS services work together to support the following use cases:
A multi-tier web application using typical AWS infrastructure services including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
A multi-tier web application using a container-based compute layer provided by AWS Fargate
The AWS Consumer Guide is an independently authored guide by Foresight IT Consulting that provides cloud consumers with practical guidance on the use of AWS for PROTECTED workloads.
The AWS IRAP PROTECTED documentation helps individual agencies simplify the process of adopting AWS services. It enables individual agencies to complete their own assessments and adopt AWS for a broader range of services.
For the full list of services assessed for PROTECTED workloads, see the services in scope page (select the IRAP tab). The assessed AWS services are available within the existing AWS Asia-Pacific (Sydney) Region.
If you have questions about our PROTECTED assessment or would like to inquire about how to use AWS for your highly sensitive workloads, contact your account team.
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