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AWS re:Inforce 2023: Key announcements and session highlights

Post Syndicated from Nisha Amthul original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/aws-reinforce-2023-key-announcements-and-session-highlights/

AWS re:Inforce

Thank you to everyone who participated in AWS re:Inforce 2023, both virtually and in-person. The conference featured a lineup of over 250 engaging sessions and hands-on labs, in collaboration with more than 80 AWS partner sponsors, over two days of immersive cloud security learning. The keynote was delivered by CJ Moses, AWS Chief Information Security Officer, Becky Weiss, AWS Senior Principal Engineer, and Debbie Wheeler, Delta Air Lines Chief Information Security Officer. They shared the latest innovations in cloud security from AWS and provided insights on how to foster a culture of security in your organization.

If you couldn’t join us or would like to revisit the insightful themes discussed, we’ve put together this blog post for you. It provides a comprehensive summary of all the key announcements made and includes information on where you can watch the keynote and sessions at your convenience.

Key announcements

Here are some of the top announcements that we made at AWS re:Inforce 2023:

  • Amazon Verified Permissions — Verified Permissions is a scalable permissions management and fine-grained authorization service for the applications you build. The service helps your developers build secure applications faster by externalizing authorization and centralizing policy management and administration. Developers can align their application access with Zero Trust principles by implementing least privilege and continual verification within applications. Security and audit teams can better analyze and audit who has access to what within applications. Amazon Verified Permissions uses Cedar, an open-source policy language for access control that empowers developers and admins to define policy-based access controls using roles and attributes for context-aware access control.
  • Amazon Inspector code scanning of Lambda functions — Amazon Inspector now supports code scanning of AWS Lambda functions, expanding the existing capability to scan Lambda functions and associated layers for software vulnerabilities in application package dependencies. Amazon Inspector code scanning of Lambda functions scans custom proprietary application code you write within Lambda functions for security vulnerabilities such as injection flaws, data leaks, weak cryptography, or missing encryption. Upon detecting code vulnerabilities within the Lambda function or layer, Amazon Inspector generates actionable security findings that provide several details, such as security detector name, impacted code snippets, and remediation suggestions to address vulnerabilities. The findings are aggregated in the Amazon Inspector console and integrated with AWS Security Hub and Amazon EventBridge for streamlined workflow automation.
  • Amazon Inspector SBOM export — Amazon Inspector now offers the ability to export a consolidated Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) for resources that it monitors across your organization in multiple industry-standard formats, including CycloneDx and Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX). With this new capability, you can use automated and centrally managed SBOMs to gain visibility into key information about your software supply chain. This includes details about software packages used in the resource, along with associated vulnerabilities. SBOMs can be exported to an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket and downloaded for analyzing with Amazon Athena or Amazon QuickSight to visualize software supply chain trends. This functionality is available with a few clicks in the Amazon Inspector console or using Amazon Inspector APIs.
  • Amazon CodeGuru Security — Amazon CodeGuru Security offers a comprehensive set of APIs that are designed to seamlessly integrate with your existing pipelines and tooling. CodeGuru Security serves as a static application security testing (SAST) tool that uses machine learning to help you identify code vulnerabilities and provide guidance you can use as part of remediation. CodeGuru Security also provides in-context code patches for certain classes of vulnerabilities, helping you reduce the effort required to fix code.
  • Amazon EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint — Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) announced support for connectivity to instances using SSH or RDP in private subnets over the Amazon EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint (EIC Endpoint). With this capability, you can connect to your instances by using SSH or RDP from the internet without requiring a public IPv4 address.
  • AWS built-in partner solutions — AWS built-in partner solutions are co-built with AWS experts, helping to ensure that AWS Well-Architected security reference architecture guidelines and best security practices were rigorously followed. AWS built-in partner solutions can save you valuable time and resources by getting the building blocks of cloud development right when you begin a migration or modernization initiative. AWS built-in solutions also automate deployments and can reduce installation time from months or weeks to a single day. Customers often look to our partners for innovation and help with “getting cloud right.” Now, partners with AWS built-in solutions can help you be more efficient and drive business value for both partner software and AWS native services.
  • AWS Cyber Insurance Partners — AWS has worked with leading cyber insurance partners to help simplify the process of obtaining cyber insurance. You can now reduce business risk by finding and procuring cyber insurance directly from validated AWS cyber insurance partners. To reduce the amount of paperwork and save time, download and share your AWS Foundational Security Best Practices Standard detailed report from AWS Security Hub and share the report with the AWS Cyber Insurance Partner of your choice. With AWS vetted cyber insurance partners, you can have confidence that these insurers understand AWS security posture and are evaluating your environment according to the latest AWS Security Best Practices. Now you can get a full cyber insurance quote in just two business days.
  • AWS Global Partner Security Initiative — With the AWS Global Partner Security Initiative, AWS will jointly develop end-to-end security solutions and managed services, leveraging the capabilities, scale, and deep security knowledge of our Global System Integrators (GSI) partners.
  • Amazon Detective finding groups — Amazon Detective expands its finding groups capability to include Amazon Inspector findings, in addition to Amazon GuardDuty findings. Using machine learning, this extension of the finding groups feature significantly streamlines the investigation process, reducing the time spent and helping to improve identification of the root cause of security incidents. By grouping findings from Amazon Inspector and GuardDuty, you can use Detective to answer difficult questions such as “was this EC2 instance compromised because of a vulnerability?” or “did this GuardDuty finding occur because of unintended network exposure?” Furthermore, Detective maps the identified findings and their corresponding tactics, techniques, and procedures to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, enhancing the overall effectiveness and alignment of security measures.
  • [Pre-announce] AWS Private Certificate Authority Connector for Active Directory –— AWS Private CA will soon launch a Connector for Active Directory (AD). The Connector for AD will help to reduce upfront public key infrastructure (PKI) investment and ongoing maintenance costs with a fully managed serverless solution. This new feature will help reduce PKI complexity by replacing on-premises certificate authorities with a highly secure hardware security module (HSM)-backed AWS Private CA. You will be able to automatically deploy certificates using auto-enrollment to on-premises AD and AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory.
  • AWS Payment Cryptography — The day before re:Inforce, AWS Payment Cryptography launched with general availability. This service simplifies cryptography operations in cloud-hosted payment applications. AWS Payment Cryptography simplifies your implementation of the cryptographic functions and key management used to secure data and operations in payment processing in accordance with various PCI standards.
  • AWS WAF Fraud Control launches account creation fraud prevention — AWS WAF Fraud Control announces Account Creation Fraud Prevention, a managed protection for AWS WAF that’s designed to prevent creation of fake or fraudulent accounts. Fraudsters use fake accounts to initiate activities, such as abusing promotional and sign-up bonuses, impersonating legitimate users, and carrying out phishing tactics. Account Creation Fraud Prevention helps protect your account sign-up or registration pages by allowing you to continuously monitor requests for anomalous digital activity and automatically block suspicious requests based on request identifiers and behavioral analysis.
  • AWS Security Hub automation rules — AWS Security Hub, a cloud security posture management service that performs security best practice checks, aggregates alerts, and facilitates automated remediation, now features a capability to automatically update or suppress findings in near real time. You can now use automation rules to automatically update various fields in findings, suppress findings, update finding severity and workflow status, add notes, and more.
  • Amazon S3 announces dual-layer server-side encryption — Amazon S3 is the only cloud object storage service where you can apply two layers of encryption at the object level and control the data keys used for both layers. Dual-layer server-side encryption with keys stored in AWS Key Management Service (DSSE-KMS) is designed to adhere to National Security Agency Committee on National Security Systems Policy (CNSSP) 15 for FIPS compliance and Data-at-Rest Capability Package (DAR CP) Version 5.0 guidance for two layers of MFS U/00/814670-15 Commercial National Security Algorithm (CNSA) encryption.
  • AWS CloudTrail Lake dashboards — AWS CloudTrail Lake, a managed data lake that lets organizations aggregate, immutably store, visualize, and query their audit and security logs, announces the general availability of CloudTrail Lake dashboards. CloudTrail Lake dashboards provide out-of-the-box visualizations and graphs of key trends from your audit and security data directly within the CloudTrail console. It also offers the flexibility to drill down on additional details, such as specific user activity, for further analysis and investigation using CloudTrail Lake SQL queries.
  • AWS Well-Architected Profiles — AWS Well-Architected introduces Profiles, which allows you to tailor your Well-Architected reviews based on your business goals. This feature creates a mechanism for continuous improvement by encouraging you to review your workloads with certain goals in mind first, and then complete the remaining Well-Architected review questions.

Watch on demand

Leadership sessions — You can watch the leadership sessions to learn from AWS security experts as they talk about essential topics, including open source software (OSS) security, Zero Trust, compliance, and proactive security.

Breakout sessions, lightning talks, and more — Explore our content across these six tracks:

  • Application Security— Discover how AWS, customers, and AWS Partners move fast while understanding the security of the software they build.
  • Data Protection — Learn how AWS, customers, and AWS Partners work together to protect data. Get insights into trends in data management, cryptography, data security, data privacy, encryption, and key rotation and storage.
  • Governance, Risk, and Compliance — Dive into the latest hot topics in governance and compliance for security practitioners, and discover how to automate compliance tools and services for operational use.
  • Identity and Access Management — Learn how AWS, customers, and AWS Partners use AWS Identity Services to manage identities, resources, and permissions securely and at scale. Discover how to configure fine-grained access controls for your employees, applications, and devices and deploy permission guardrails across your organization.
  • Network and Infrastructure Security — Gain practical expertise on the services, tools, and products that AWS, customers, and partners use to protect the usability and integrity of their networks and data.
  • Threat Detection and Incident Response — Discover how AWS, customers, and AWS Partners get the visibility they need to improve their security posture, reduce the risk profile of their environments, identify issues before they impact business, and implement incident response best practices.
  • You can also watch our Lightning Talks and the AWS On Air day 1 and day 2 livestream on demand.

Session presentation downloads are also available on the AWS Events Content page. If you’re interested in further in-person security learning opportunities, consider registering for AWS re:Invent 2023, which will be held from November 27 to December 1 in Las Vegas, NV. We look forward to seeing you there!

If you would like to discuss how these new announcements can help your organization improve its security posture, AWS is here to help. Contact your AWS account team today.

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Nisha Amthul

Nisha Amthul

Nisha is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at AWS Security, specializing in detection and response solutions. She has a strong foundation in product management and product marketing within the domains of information security and data protection. When not at work, you’ll find her cake decorating, strength training, and chasing after her two energetic kiddos, embracing the joys of motherhood.

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Satinder Khasriya

Satinder leads the product marketing strategy and implementation for AWS Network and Application protection services. Prior to AWS, Satinder spent the last decade leading product marketing for various network security solutions across several technologies, including network firewall, intrusion prevention, and threat intelligence. Satinder lives in Austin, Texas and enjoys spending time with his family and traveling.

Three ways to accelerate incident response in the cloud: insights from re:Inforce 2023

Post Syndicated from Anne Grahn original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/three-ways-to-accelerate-incident-response-in-the-cloud-insights-from-reinforce-2023/

AWS re:Inforce took place in Anaheim, California, on June 13–14, 2023. AWS customers, partners, and industry peers participated in hundreds of technical and non-technical security-focused sessions across six tracks, an Expo featuring AWS experts and AWS Security Competency Partners, and keynote and leadership sessions.

The threat detection and incident response track showcased how AWS customers can get the visibility they need to help improve their security posture, identify issues before they impact business, and investigate and respond quickly to security incidents across their environment.

With dozens of service and feature announcements—and innumerable best practices shared by AWS experts, customers, and partners—distilling highlights is a challenge. From an incident response perspective, three key themes emerged.

Proactively detect, contextualize, and visualize security events

When it comes to effectively responding to security events, rapid detection is key. Among the launches announced during the keynote was the expansion of Amazon Detective finding groups to include Amazon Inspector findings in addition to Amazon GuardDuty findings.

Detective, GuardDuty, and Inspector are part of a broad set of fully managed AWS security services that help you identify potential security risks, so that you can respond quickly and confidently.

Using machine learning, Detective finding groups can help you conduct faster investigations, identify the root cause of events, and map to the MITRE ATT&CK framework to quickly run security issues to ground. The finding group visualization panel shown in the following figure displays findings and entities involved in a finding group. This interactive visualization can help you analyze, understand, and triage the impact of finding groups.

Figure 1: Detective finding groups visualization panel

Figure 1: Detective finding groups visualization panel

With the expanded threat and vulnerability findings announced at re:Inforce, you can prioritize where to focus your time by answering questions such as “was this EC2 instance compromised because of a software vulnerability?” or “did this GuardDuty finding occur because of unintended network exposure?”

In the session Streamline security analysis with Amazon Detective, AWS Principal Product Manager Rich Vorwaller, AWS Senior Security Engineer Rima Tanash, and AWS Program Manager Jordan Kramer demonstrated how to use graph analysis techniques and machine learning in Detective to identify related findings and resources, and investigate them together to accelerate incident analysis.

In addition to Detective, you can also use Amazon Security Lake to contextualize and visualize security events. Security Lake became generally available on May 30, 2023, and several re:Inforce sessions focused on how you can use this new service to assist with investigations and incident response.

As detailed in the following figure, Security Lake automatically centralizes security data from AWS environments, SaaS providers, on-premises environments, and cloud sources into a purpose-built data lake stored in your account. Security Lake makes it simpler to analyze security data, gain a more comprehensive understanding of security across an entire organization, and improve the protection of workloads, applications, and data. Security Lake automates the collection and management of security data from multiple accounts and AWS Regions, so you can use your preferred analytics tools while retaining complete control and ownership over your security data. Security Lake has adopted the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF), an open standard. With OCSF support, the service normalizes and combines security data from AWS and a broad range of enterprise security data sources.

Figure 2: How Security Lake works

Figure 2: How Security Lake works

To date, 57 AWS security partners have announced integrations with Security Lake, and we now have more than 70 third-party sources, 16 analytics subscribers, and 13 service partners.

In Gaining insights from Amazon Security Lake, AWS Principal Solutions Architect Mark Keating and AWS Security Engineering Manager Keith Gilbert detailed how to get the most out of Security Lake. Addressing questions such as, “How do I get access to the data?” and “What tools can I use?,” they demonstrated how analytics services and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions can connect to and use data stored within Security Lake to investigate security events and identify trends across an organization. They emphasized how bringing together logs in multiple formats and normalizing them into a single format empowers security teams to gain valuable context from security data, and more effectively respond to events. Data can be queried with Amazon Athena, or pulled by Amazon OpenSearch Service or your SIEM system directly from Security Lake.

Build your security data lake with Amazon Security Lake featured AWS Product Manager Jonathan Garzon, AWS Product Solutions Architect Ross Warren, and Global CISO of Interpublic Group (IPG) Troy Wilkinson demonstrating how Security Lake helps address common challenges associated with analyzing enterprise security data, and detailing how IPG is using the service. Wilkinson noted that IPG’s objective is to bring security data together in one place, improve searches, and gain insights from their data that they haven’t been able to before.

“With Security Lake, we found that it was super simple to bring data in. Not just the third-party data and Amazon data, but also our on-premises data from custom apps that we built.” — Troy Wilkinson, global CISO, Interpublic Group

Use automation and machine learning to reduce mean time to response

Incident response automation can help free security analysts from repetitive tasks, so they can spend their time identifying and addressing high-priority security issues.

In How LLA reduces incident response time with AWS Systems Manager, telecommunications provider Liberty Latin America (LLA) detailed how they implemented a security framework to detect security issues and automate incident response in more than 180 AWS accounts accessed by internal stakeholders and third-party partners by using AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager, AWS Organizations, Amazon GuardDuty, and AWS Security Hub.

LLA operates in over 20 countries across Latin America and the Caribbean. After completing multiple acquisitions, LLA needed a centralized security operations team to handle incidents and notify the teams responsible for each AWS account. They used GuardDuty, Security Hub, and Systems Manager Incident Manager to automate and streamline detection and response, and they configured the services to initiate alerts whenever there was an issue requiring attention.

Speaking alongside AWS Principal Solutions Architect Jesus Federico and AWS Principal Product Manager Sarah Holberg, LLA Senior Manager of Cloud Services Joaquin Cameselle noted that when GuardDuty identifies a critical issue, it generates a new finding in Security Hub. This finding is then forwarded to Systems Manager Incident Manager through an Amazon EventBridge rule. This configuration helps ensure the involvement of the appropriate individuals associated with each account.

“We have deployed a security framework in Liberty Latin America to identify security issues and streamline incident response across over 180 AWS accounts. The framework that leverages AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager, Amazon GuardDuty, and AWS Security Hub enabled us to detect and respond to incidents with greater efficiency. As a result, we have reduced our reaction time by 90%, ensuring prompt engagement of the appropriate teams for each AWS account and facilitating visibility of issues for the central security team.” — Joaquin Cameselle, senior manager, cloud services, Liberty Latin America

How Citibank (Citi) advanced their containment capabilities through automation outlined how the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Incident Response framework is applied to AWS services, and highlighted Citi’s implementation of a highly scalable cloud incident response framework designed to support the 28 AWS services in their cloud environment.

After describing the four phases of the incident response process — preparation and prevention; detection and analysis; containment, eradication, and recovery; and post-incident activity—AWS ProServe Global Financial Services Senior Engagement Manager Harikumar Subramonion noted that, to fully benefit from the cloud, you need to embrace automation. Automation benefits the third phase of the incident response process by speeding up containment, and reducing mean time to response.

Citibank Head of Cloud Security Operations Elvis Velez and Vice President of Cloud Security Damien Burks described how Citi built the Cloud Containment Automation Framework (CCAF) from the ground up by using AWS Step Functions and AWS Lambda, enabling them to respond to events 24/7 without human error, and reduce the time it takes to contain resources from 4 hours to 15 minutes. Velez described how Citi uses adversary emulation exercises that use the MITRE ATT&CK Cloud Matrix to simulate realistic attacks on AWS environments, and continuously validate their ability to effectively contain incidents.

Innovate and do more with less

Security operations teams are often understaffed, making it difficult to keep up with alerts. According to data from CyberSeek, there are currently 69 workers available for every 100 cybersecurity job openings.

Effectively evaluating security and compliance posture is critical, despite resource constraints. In Centralizing security at scale with Security Hub and Intuit’s experience, AWS Senior Solutions Architect Craig Simon, AWS Senior Security Hub Product Manager Dora Karali, and Intuit Principal Software Engineer Matt Gravlin discussed how to ease security management with Security Hub. Fortune 500 financial software provider Intuit has approximately 2,000 AWS accounts, 10 million AWS resources, and receives 20 million findings a day from AWS services through Security Hub. Gravlin detailed Intuit’s Automated Compliance Platform (ACP), which combines Security Hub and AWS Config with an internal compliance solution to help Intuit reduce audit timelines, effectively manage remediation, and make compliance more consistent.

“By using Security Hub, we leveraged AWS expertise with their regulatory controls and best practice controls. It helped us keep up to date as new controls are released on a regular basis. We like Security Hub’s aggregation features that consolidate findings from other AWS services and third-party providers. I personally call it the super aggregator. A key component is the Security Hub to Amazon EventBridge integration. This allowed us to stream millions of findings on a daily basis to be inserted into our ACP database.” — Matt Gravlin, principal software engineer, Intuit

At AWS re:Inforce, we launched a new Security Hub capability for automating actions to update findings. You can now use rules to automatically update various fields in findings that match defined criteria. This allows you to automatically suppress findings, update the severity of findings according to organizational policies, change the workflow status of findings, and add notes. With automation rules, Security Hub provides you a simplified way to build automations directly from the Security Hub console and API. This reduces repetitive work for cloud security and DevOps engineers and can reduce mean time to response.

In Continuous innovation in AWS detection and response services, AWS Worldwide Security Specialist Senior Manager Himanshu Verma and GuardDuty Senior Manager Ryan Holland highlighted new features that can help you gain actionable insights that you can use to enhance your overall security posture. After mapping AWS security capabilities to the core functions of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, Verma and Holland provided an overview of AWS threat detection and response services that included a technical demonstration.

Bolstering incident response with AWS Wickr enterprise integrations highlighted how incident responders can collaborate securely during a security event, even on a compromised network. AWS Senior Security Specialist Solutions Architect Wes Wood demonstrated an innovative approach to incident response communications by detailing how you can integrate the end-to-end encrypted collaboration service AWS Wickr Enterprise with GuardDuty and AWS WAF. Using Wickr Bots, you can build integrated workflows that incorporate GuardDuty and third-party findings into a more secure, out-of-band communication channel for dedicated teams.

Evolve your incident response maturity

AWS re:Inforce featured many more highlights on incident response, including How to run security incident response in your Amazon EKS environment and Investigating incidents with Amazon Security Lake and Jupyter notebooks code talks, as well as the announcement of our Cyber Insurance Partners program. Content presented throughout the conference made one thing clear: AWS is working harder than ever to help you gain the insights that you need to strengthen your organization’s security posture, and accelerate incident response in the cloud.

To watch AWS re:Inforce sessions on demand, see the AWS re:Inforce playlists on YouTube.

 
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Anne is a Senior Worldwide Security GTM Specialist at AWS based in Chicago. She has more than a decade of experience in the security industry, and focuses on effectively communicating cybersecurity risk. She maintains a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification.

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Himanshu Verma

Himanshu is a Worldwide Specialist for AWS Security Services. In this role, he leads the go-to-market creation and execution for AWS Security Services, field enablement, and strategic customer advisement. Prior to AWS, he held several leadership roles in Product Management, engineering and development, working on various identity, information security, and data protection technologies. He obsesses brainstorming disruptive ideas, venturing outdoors, photography, and trying various “hole in the wall” food and drinking establishments around the globe.

Jesus Federico

Jesus Federico

Jesus is a Principal Solutions Architect for AWS in the telecommunications vertical, working to provide guidance and technical assistance to communication service providers on their cloud journey. He supports CSPs in designing and implementing secure, resilient, scalable, and high-performance applications in the cloud.

AWS Security Profile: Matthew Campagna, Senior Principal, Security Engineering, AWS Cryptography

Post Syndicated from Roger Park original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/security-profile-matthew-campagna-aws-cryptography/

In the AWS Security Profile series, we interview Amazon Web Services (AWS) thought leaders who help keep our customers safe and secure. This interview features Matt Campagna, Senior Principal, Security Engineering, AWS Cryptography, and re:Inforce 2023 session speaker, who shares thoughts on data protection, cloud security, post-quantum cryptography, and more. Matthew was first profiled on the AWS Security Blog in 2019. This is part 1 of 3 in a series of interviews with our AWS Cryptography team.

What do you do in your current role and how long have you been at AWS?

I started at Amazon in 2013 as the first cryptographer at AWS. Today, my focus is on the cryptographic security of our customers’ data. I work across AWS to make sure that our cryptographic engineering meets our most sensitive customer needs. I lead our migration to quantum-resistant cryptography, and help make privacy-preserving cryptography techniques part of our security model.

How did you get started in the data protection and cryptography space? What about it piqued your interest?

I first learned about public-key cryptography (for example, RSA) during a math lesson about group theory. I found the mathematics intriguing and the idea of sending secret messages using only a public value astounding. My undergraduate and graduate education focused on group theory, and I started my career at the National Security Agency (NSA) designing and analyzing cryptologics. But what interests me most about cryptography is its ability to enable business by reducing risks. I look at cryptography as a financial instrument that affords new business cases, like e-commerce, digital currency, and secure collaboration. What enables Amazon to deliver for our customers is rooted in cryptography; our business exists because cryptography enables trust and confidentiality across the internet. I find this the most intriguing aspect of cryptography.

AWS has invested in the migration to post-quantum cryptography by contributing to post-quantum key agreement and post-quantum signature schemes to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity of customer data. What should customers do to prepare for post-quantum cryptography?

Our focus at AWS is to help ensure that customers can migrate to post-quantum cryptography as fast as prudently possible. This work started with inventorying our dependencies on algorithms that aren’t known to be quantum-resistant, like integer-factorization-based cryptography, and discrete-log-based cryptography, like ECC. Customers can rely on AWS to assist with transitioning to post-quantum cryptography for their cloud computing needs.

We recommend customers begin inventorying their dependencies on algorithms that aren’t quantum-resistant, and consider developing a migration plan, to understand if they can migrate directly to new post-quantum algorithms or if they should re-architect them. For the systems that are provided by a technology provider, customers should ask what their strategy is for post-quantum cryptography migration.

AWS offers post-quantum TLS endpoints in some security services. Can you tell us about these endpoints and how customers can use them?

Our open source TLS implementation, s2n-TLS, includes post-quantum hybrid key exchange (PQHKEX) in its mainline. It’s deployed everywhere that s2n is deployed. AWS Key Management Service, AWS Secrets Manager, and AWS Certificate Manager have enabled PQHKEX cipher suites in our commercial AWS Regions. Today customers can use the AWS SDK for Java 2.0 to enable PQHKEX on their connection to AWS, and on the services that also have it enabled, they will negotiate a post-quantum key exchange method. As we enable these cipher suites on additional services, customers will also be able to connect to these services using PQHKEX.

You are a frequent contributor to the Amazon Science Blog. What were some of your recent posts about?

In 2022, we published a post on preparing for post-quantum cryptography, which provides general information on the broader industry development and deployment of post-quantum cryptography. The post links to a number of additional resources to help customers understand post-quantum cryptography. The AWS Post-Quantum Cryptography page and the Science Blog are great places to start learning about post-quantum cryptography.

We also published a post highlighting the security of post-quantum hybrid key exchange. Amazon believes in evidencing the cryptographic security of the solutions that we vend. We are actively participating in cryptographic research to validate the security that we provide in our services and tools.

What’s been the most dramatic change you’ve seen in the data protection and post-quantum cryptography landscape since we talked to you in 2019?

Since 2019, there have been two significant advances in the development of post-quantum cryptography.

First, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced their selection of PQC algorithms for standardization. NIST expects to finish the standardization of a post-quantum key encapsulation mechanism (Kyber) and digital signature scheme (Dilithium) by 2024 as part of the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS). NIST will also work on standardization of two additional signature standards (FALCON and SPHINCS+), and continue to consider future standardization of the key encapsulation mechanisms BIKE, HQC, and Classical McEliece.

Second, the NSA announced their Commercial National Security Algorithm (CNSA) Suite 2.0, which includes their timelines for National Security Systems (NSS) to migrate to post-quantum algorithms. The NSA will begin preferring post-quantum solutions in 2025 and expect that systems will have completed migration by 2033. Although this timeline might seem far away, it’s an aggressive strategy. Experience shows that it can take 20 years to develop and deploy new high-assurance cryptographic algorithms. If technology providers are not already planning to migrate their systems and services, they will be challenged to meet this timeline.

What makes cryptography exciting to you?

Cryptography is a dynamic area of research. In addition to the business applications, I enjoy the mathematics of cryptography. The state-of-the-art is constantly progressing in terms of new capabilities that cryptography can enable, and the potential risks to existing cryptographic primitives. This plays out in the public sphere of cryptographic research across the globe. These advancements are made public and are accessible for companies like AWS to innovate on behalf of our customers, and protect our systems in advance of the development of new challenges to our existing crypto algorithms. This is happening now as we monitor the advancements of quantum computing against our ability to define and deploy new high-assurance quantum-resistant algorithms. For me, it doesn’t get more exciting than this.

Where do you see the cryptography and post-quantum cryptography space heading to in the future?

While NIST transitions from their selection process to standardization, the broader cryptographic community will be more focused on validating the cryptographic assurances of these proposed schemes for standardization. This is a critical part of the process. I’m optimistic that we will enter 2025 with new cryptographic standards to deploy.

There is a lot of additional cryptographic research and engineering ahead of us. Applying these new primitives to the cryptographic applications that use classical asymmetric schemes still needs to be done. Some of this work is happening in parallel, like in the IETF TLS working group, and in the ETSI Quantum-Safe Cryptography Technical Committee. The next five years should see the adoption of PQHKEX in protocols like TLS, SSH, and IKEv2 and certification of new FIPS hardware security modules (HSMs) for establishing new post-quantum, long-lived roots of trust for code-signing and entity authentication.

I expect that the selected primitives for standardization will also be used to develop novel uses in fields like secure multi-party communication, privacy preserving machine learning, and cryptographic computing.

With AWS re:Inforce 2023 around the corner, what will your session focus on? What do you hope attendees will take away from your session?

Session DAP302 – “Post-quantum cryptography migration strategy for cloud services” is about the challenge quantum computers pose to currently used public-key cryptographic algorithms and how the industry is responding. Post-quantum cryptography (PQC) offers a solution to this challenge, providing security to help protect against quantum computer cybersecurity events. We outline current efforts in PQC standardization and migration strategies. We want our customers to leave with a better understanding of the importance of PQC and the steps required to migrate to it in a cloud environment.

Is there something you wish customers would ask you about more often?

The question I am most interested in hearing from our customers is, “when will you have a solution to my problem?” If customers have a need for a novel cryptographic solution, I’m eager to try to solve that with them.

How about outside of work, any hobbies?

My main hobbies outside of work are biking and running. I wish I was as consistent attending to my hobbies as I am to my work desk. I am happier being able to run every day for a constant speed and distance as opposed to running faster or further tomorrow or next week. Last year I was fortunate enough to do the Cycle Oregon ride. I had registered for it twice before without being able to find the time to do it.

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Roger Park

Roger Park

Roger is a Senior Security Content Specialist at AWS Security focusing on data protection. He has worked in cybersecurity for almost ten years as a writer and content producer. In his spare time, he enjoys trying new cuisines, gardening, and collecting records.

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Matthew Campagna

Matthew is a Sr. Principal Engineer for Amazon Web Services’s Cryptography Group. He manages the design and review of cryptographic solutions across AWS. He is an affiliate of Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo, a member of the ETSI Security Algorithms Group Experts (SAGE), and ETSI TC CYBER’s Quantum Safe Cryptography group. Previously, Matthew led the Certicom Research group at BlackBerry managing cryptographic research, standards, and IP, and participated in various standards organizations, including ANSI, ZigBee, SECG, ETSI’s SAGE, and the 3GPP-SA3 working group. He holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from Wesleyan University in group theory, and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Fordham University.

AWS Security Profile – Cryptography Edition: Valerie Lambert, Senior Software Development Engineer

Post Syndicated from Roger Park original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/aws-security-profile-cryptography-edition-valerie-lambert-senior-software-development-engineer/

In the AWS Security Profile series, we interview Amazon Web Services (AWS) experts who help keep our customers safe and secure. This interview features Valerie Lambert, Senior Software Development Engineer, Crypto Tools, and upcoming AWS re:Inforce 2023 speaker, who shares thoughts on data protection, cloud security, cryptography tools, and more.

What do you do in your current role and how long have you been at AWS?
I’m a Senior Software Development Engineer on the AWS Crypto Tools team in AWS Cryptography. My team focuses on building open source, client-side encryption solutions, such as the AWS Encryption SDK. I’ve been working in this space for the past four years.

How did you get started in cryptography? What about it piqued your interest?
When I started on this team back in 2019, I knew very little about the specifics of cryptography. I only knew its importance for securing our customers’ data and that security was our top priority at AWS. As a developer, I’ve always taken security and data protection very seriously, so when I learned about this particular team from one of my colleagues, I was immediately interested and wanted to learn more. It also helped that I’m a very math-oriented person. I find this domain endlessly interesting, and love that I have the opportunity to work with some truly amazing cryptography experts.

Why do cryptography tools matter today?
Customers need their data to be secured, and builders need to have tools they can rely on to help provide that security. It’s well known that no one should cobble together their own encryption scheme. However, even if you use well-vetted, industry-standard cryptographic primitives, there are still many considerations when applying those primitives correctly. By using tools that are simple to use and hard to misuse, builders can be confident in protecting their customers’ most sensitive data, without cryptographic expertise required.

What’s been the most dramatic change you’ve seen in the data protection and cryptography space?
In the past few years, I’ve seen more and more formal verification used to help prove various properties about complex systems, as well as build confidence in the correctness of our libraries. In particular, the AWS Crypto Tools team is using Dafny, a formal verification-aware programming language, to implement the business logic for some of our libraries. Given the high bar for correctness of cryptographic libraries, having formal verification as an additional tool in the toolbox has been invaluable. I look forward to how these tools mature in the next couple years.

You are speaking in Anaheim June 13-14 at AWS re:Inforce 2023 — what will your session focus on?
Our team has put together a workshop (DAP373) that will focus on strategies to use client-side encryption with Amazon DynamoDB, specifically focusing on solutions for effectively searching on data that has been encrypted on the client side. I hope that attendees will see that, with a bit of forethought put into their data access patterns, they can still protect their data on the client side.

Where do you see the cryptography tools space heading in the future?
More and more customers have been coming to us with use cases that involve client-side encryption with different database technologies. Although my team currently vends an out-of-the-box solution for DynamoDB, customers working with other database technologies have to build their own solutions to help keep their data safe. There are many, many considerations that come with encrypting data on the client side for use in a database, and it’s very expensive for customers to design, build, and maintain these solutions. The AWS Crypto Tools team is actively investigating this space—both how we can expand the usability of client-side encrypted data in DynamoDB, and how to bring our tools to more database technologies.

Is there something you wish customers would ask you about more often?
Customers shouldn’t need to understand the cryptographic details that underpin the security properties that our tools provide to protect their end users’ data. However, I love when our customers are curious and ask questions and are themselves interested in the nitty-gritty details of our solutions.

How about outside of work, any hobbies?
A couple years ago, I picked up aerial circus arts as a hobby. I’m still not very good, but it’s a lot of fun to play around on silks and trapeze. And it’s great exercise!

 
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Roger Park

Roger is a Senior Security Content Specialist at AWS Security focusing on data protection. He has worked in cybersecurity for almost ten years as a writer and content producer. In his spare time, he enjoys trying new cuisines, gardening, and collecting records.

Valerie Lambert

Valerie Lambert

Valerie is a Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services on the Crypto Tools team. She focuses on the security and usability of high-level cryptographic libraries. Outside of work, she enjoys drawing, hiking, and finding new indie video games to play.

AWS Security Profile: Ritesh Desai, GM, AWS Secrets Manager

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AWS Security Profile: Ritesh Desai, GM, AWS Secrets Manager

In the AWS Security Profile series, we interview Amazon Web Services (AWS) thought leaders who help keep our customers safe and secure. This interview features Ritesh Desai, General Manager, AWS Secrets Manager, and re:Inforce 2023 session speaker, who shares thoughts on data protection, cloud security, secrets management, and more.

What do you do in your current role and how long have you been at AWS?

I’ve been in the tech industry for more than 20 years and joined AWS about three years ago. Currently, I lead our Secrets Management organization, which includes the AWS Secrets Manager service.

How did you get started in the data protection and secrets management space? What about it piqued your interest?

I’ve always been excited at the prospect of solving complex customer problems with simple technical solutions. Working across multiple small to large organizations in the past, I’ve seen similar challenges with secret sprawl and lack of auditing and monitoring tools. Centralized secrets management is a challenge for customers. As organizations evolve from start-up to enterprise level, they can end up with multiple solutions across organizational units to manage their secrets.

Being part of the Secrets Manager team gives me the opportunity to learn about our customers’ unique needs and help them protect access to their most sensitive digital assets in the cloud, at scale.

Why does secrets management matter to customers today?

Customers use secrets like database passwords and API keys to protect their most sensitive data, so it’s extremely important for them to invest in a centralized secrets management solution. Through secrets management, customers can securely store, retrieve, rotate, and audit secrets.

What’s been the most dramatic change you’ve seen in the data protection and secrets management space?

Secrets management is becoming increasingly important for customers, but customers now have to deal with complex environments that include single cloud providers like AWS, multi-cloud setups, hybrid (cloud and on-premises) environments, and only on-premises instances.

Customers tell us that they want centralized secrets management solutions that meet their expectations across these environments. They have two distinct goals here. First, they want a central secrets management tool or service to manage their secrets. Second, they want their secrets to be available closer to the applications where they’re run. IAM Roles Anywhere provides a secure way for on-premises servers to obtain temporary AWS credentials and removes the need to create and manage long-term AWS credentials. Now, customers can use IAM Roles Anywhere to access their Secrets Manager secrets from workloads running outside of AWS. Secrets Manager also launched a program in which customers can manage secrets in third-party secrets management solutions to replicate secrets to Secrets Manager for their AWS workloads. We’re continuing to invest in these areas to make it simpler for customers to manage their secrets in their tools of choice, while providing access to their secrets closer to where their applications are run.

With AWS re:Inforce 2023 around the corner, what will your session focus on? What do you hope attendees will take away from your session?

I’m speaking in a session called “Using AWS data protection services for innovation and automation” (DAP305) alongside one of our senior security specialist solutions architects on the topic of secrets management at scale. In the session, we’ll walk through a sample customer use case that highlights how to use data protection services like AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS), AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA), and Secrets Manager to help build securely and help meet organizational security and compliance expectations. Attendees will walk away with a clear picture of the services that AWS offers to protect sensitive data, and how they can use these services together to protect secrets at scale.

I also encourage folks to check out the other sessions in the data protection track.

Where do you see the secrets management space heading in the future?

Traditionally, secrets management was addressed after development, rather than being part of the design and development process. This placement created an inherent clash between development teams who wanted to put the application in the hands of end users, and the security admins who wanted to verify that the application met security expectations. This resulted in longer timelines to get to market. Involving security in the mix only after development is complete, is simply too late. Security should enable business, not restrict it.

Organizations are slowly adopting the culture that “Security is everyone’s responsibility.” I expect more and more organizations will take the step to “shift-left” and embed security early in the development lifecycle. In the near future, I expect to see organizations prioritize the automation of security capabilities in the development process to help detect, remediate, and eliminate potential risks by taking security out of human hands.

Is there something you wish customers would ask you about more often?

I’m always happy to talk to customers to help them think through how to incorporate secure-by-design in their planning process. There are many situations where decisions could end up being expensive to reverse. AWS has a lot of experience working across a multitude of use cases for customers as they adopt secrets management solutions. I’d love to talk more to customers early in their cloud adoption journey, about the best practices that they should adopt and potential pitfalls to avoid, when they make decisions about secrets management and data protection.

How about outside of work—any hobbies?

I’m an avid outdoors person, and living in Seattle has given me and my family the opportunity to trek and hike through the beautiful landscapes of the Pacific Northwest. I’ve also been a consistent Tough Mudder-er for the last 5 years. The other thing that I spend my time on is working as an amateur actor for a friend’s nonprofit theater production, helping in any way I can.

 
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Roger is a Senior Security Content Specialist at AWS Security focusing on data protection. He has worked in cybersecurity for almost ten years as a writer and content producer. In his spare time, he enjoys trying new cuisines, gardening, and collecting records.

Ritesh Desai

Ritesh Desai

Ritesh is GM of AWS Secrets Manager. His background includes driving product vision and technology innovation for multiple organizations. He focuses on leading security services that provide innovative solutions to enable customers to securely move their workloads to AWS.

Your guide to the threat detection and incident response track at re:Inforce 2023

Post Syndicated from Celeste Bishop original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/your-guide-to-the-threat-detection-and-incident-response-track-at-reinforce-2023/

reInforce 2023

A full conference pass is $1,099. Register today with the code secure150off to receive a limited time $150 discount, while supplies last.

AWS re:Inforce is back, and we can’t wait to welcome security builders to Anaheim, CA, on June 13 and 14. AWS re:Inforce is a security learning conference where you can gain skills and confidence in cloud security, compliance, identity, and privacy. As an attendee, you will have access to hundreds of technical and non-technical sessions, an Expo featuring AWS experts and security partners with AWS Security Competencies, and keynote and leadership sessions featuring Security leadership. re:Inforce 2023 features content across the following six areas:

  • Data protection
  • Governance, risk, and compliance
  • Identity and access management
  • Network and infrastructure security
  • Threat detection and incident response
  • Application security

The threat detection and incident response track is designed to showcase how AWS, customers, and partners can intelligently detect potential security risks, centralize and streamline security management at scale, investigate and respond quickly to security incidents across their environment, and unlock security innovation across hybrid cloud environments.

Breakout sessions, chalk talks, and lightning talks

TDR201 | Breakout session | How Citi advanced their containment capabilities through automation
Incident response is critical for maintaining the reliability and security of AWS environments. To support the 28 AWS services in their cloud environment, Citi implemented a highly scalable cloud incident response framework specifically designed for their workloads on AWS. Using AWS Step Functions and AWS Lambda, Citi’s automated and orchestrated incident response plan follows NIST guidelines and has significantly improved its response time to security events. In this session, learn from real-world scenarios and examples on how to use AWS Step Functions and other core AWS services to effectively build and design scalable incident response solutions.

TDR202 | Breakout session | Wix’s layered security strategy to discover and protect sensitive data
Wix is a leading cloud-based development platform that empowers users to get online with a personalized, professional web presence. In this session, learn how the Wix security team layers AWS security services including Amazon Macie, AWS Security Hub, and AWS Identity and Access Management Access Analyzer to maintain continuous visibility into proper handling and usage of sensitive data. Using AWS security services, Wix can discover, classify, and protect sensitive information across terabytes of data stored on AWS and in public clouds as well as SaaS applications, while empowering hundreds of internal developers to drive innovation on the Wix platform.

TDR203 | Breakout session | Vulnerability management at scale drives enterprise transformation
Automating vulnerability management at scale can help speed up mean time to remediation and identify potential business-impacting issues sooner. In this session, explore key challenges that organizations face when approaching vulnerability management across large and complex environments, and consider the innovative solutions that AWS provides to help overcome them. Learn how customers use AWS services such as Amazon Inspector to automate vulnerability detection, streamline remediation efforts, and improve compliance posture. Whether you’re just getting started with vulnerability management or looking to optimize your existing approach, gain valuable insights and inspiration to help you drive innovation and enhance your security posture with AWS.

TDR204 | Breakout session | Continuous innovation in AWS detection and response services
Join this session to learn about the latest advancements and most recent AWS launches in detection and response. This session focuses on use cases such as automated threat detection, continual vulnerability management, continuous cloud security posture management, and unified security data management. Through these examples, gain a deeper understanding of how you can seamlessly integrate AWS services into your existing security framework to gain greater control and insight, quickly address security risks, and maintain the security of your AWS environment.

TDR205 | Breakout session | Build your security data lake with Amazon Security Lake, featuring Interpublic Group
Security teams want greater visibility into security activity across their entire organizations to proactively identify potential threats and vulnerabilities. Amazon Security Lake automatically centralizes security data from cloud, on-premises, and custom sources into a purpose-built data lake stored in your account and allows you to use industry-leading AWS and third-party analytics and ML tools to gain insights from your data and identify security risks that require immediate attention. Discover how Security Lake can help you consolidate and streamline security logging at scale and speed, and hear from an AWS customer, Interpublic Group (IPG), on their experience.

TDR209 | Breakout session | Centralizing security at scale with Security Hub & Intuit’s experience
As organizations move their workloads to the cloud, it becomes increasingly important to have a centralized view of security across their cloud resources. AWS Security Hub is a powerful tool that allows organizations to gain visibility into their security posture and compliance status across their AWS accounts and Regions. In this session, learn about Security Hub’s new capabilities that help simplify centralizing and operationalizing security. Then, hear from Intuit, a leading financial software company, as they share their experience and best practices for setting up and using Security Hub to centralize security management.

TDR210 | Breakout session | Streamline security analysis with Amazon Detective
Join us to discover how to streamline security investigations and perform root-cause analysis with Amazon Detective. Learn how to leverage the graph analysis techniques in Detective to identify related findings and resources and investigate them together to accelerate incident analysis. Also hear a customer story about their experience using Detective to analyze findings automatically ingested from Amazon GuardDuty, and walk through a sample security investigation.

TDR310 | Breakout session | Developing new findings using machine learning in Amazon GuardDuty
Amazon GuardDuty provides threat detection at scale, helping you quickly identify and remediate security issues with actionable insights and context. In this session, learn how GuardDuty continuously enhances its intelligent threat detection capabilities using purpose-built machine learning models. Discover how new findings are developed for new data sources using novel machine learning techniques and how they are rigorously evaluated. Get a behind-the-scenes look at GuardDuty findings from ideation to production, and learn how this service can help you strengthen your security posture.

TDR311 | Breakout session | Securing data and democratizing the alert landscape with an event-driven architecture
Security event monitoring is a unique challenge for businesses operating at scale and seeking to integrate detections into their existing security monitoring systems while using multiple detection tools. Learn how organizations can triage and raise relevant cloud security findings across a breadth of detection tools and provide results to downstream security teams in a serverless manner at scale. We discuss how to apply a layered security approach to evaluate the security posture of your data, protect your data from potential threats, and automate response and remediation to help with compliance requirements.

TDR231 | Chalk talk | Operationalizing security findings at scale
You enabled AWS Security Hub standards and checks across your AWS organization and in all AWS Regions. What should you do next? Should you expect zero critical and high findings? What is your ideal state? Is achieving zero findings possible? In this chalk talk, learn about a framework you can implement to triage Security Hub findings. Explore how this framework can be applied to several common critical and high findings, and take away mechanisms to prioritize and respond to security findings at scale.

TDR232 | Chalk talk | Act on security findings using Security Hub’s automation capabilities
Alert fatigue, a shortage of skilled staff, and keeping up with dynamic cloud resources are all challenges that exist when it comes to customers successfully achieving their security goals in AWS. In order to achieve their goals, customers need to act on security findings associated with cloud-based resources. In this session, learn how to automatically, or semi-automatically, act on security findings aggregated in AWS Security Hub to help you secure your organization’s cloud assets across a diverse set of accounts and Regions.

TDR233 | Chalk talk | How LLA reduces incident response time with AWS Systems Manager
Liberty Latin America (LLA) is a leading telecommunications company operating in over 20 countries across Latin America and the Caribbean. LLA offers communications and entertainment services, including video, broadband internet, telephony, and mobile services. In this chalk talk, discover how LLA implemented a security framework to detect security issues and automate incident response in more than 180 AWS accounts accessed by internal stakeholders and third-party partners using AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager, AWS Organizations, Amazon GuardDuty, and AWS Security Hub.

TDR432 | Chalk talk | Deep dive into exposed credentials and how to investigate them
In this chalk talk, sharpen your detection and investigation skills to spot and explore common security events like unauthorized access with exposed credentials. Learn how to recognize the indicators of such events, as well as logs and techniques that unauthorized users use to evade detection. The talk provides knowledge and resources to help you immediately prepare for your own security investigations.

TDR332 | Chalk talk | Speed up zero-day vulnerability response
In this chalk talk, learn how to scale vulnerability management for Amazon EC2 across multiple accounts and AWS Regions. Explore how to use Amazon Inspector, AWS Systems Manager, and AWS Security Hub to respond to zero-day vulnerabilities, and leave knowing how to plan, perform, and report on proactive and reactive remediations.

TDR333 | Chalk talk | Gaining insights from Amazon Security Lake
You’ve created a security data lake, and you’re ingesting data. Now what? How do you use that data to gain insights into what is happening within your organization or assist with investigations and incident response? Join this chalk talk to learn how analytics services and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions can connect to and use data stored within Amazon Security Lake to investigate security events and identify trends across your organization. Leave with a better understanding of how you can integrate Amazon Security Lake with other business intelligence and analytics tools to gain valuable insights from your security data and respond more effectively to security events.

TDR431 | Chalk talk | The anatomy of a ransomware event
Ransomware events can cost governments, nonprofits, and businesses billions of dollars and interrupt operations. Early detection and automated responses are important steps that can limit your organization’s exposure. In this chalk talk, examine the anatomy of a ransomware event that targets data residing in Amazon RDS and get detailed best practices for detection, response, recovery, and protection.

TDR221 | Lightning talk | Streamline security operations and improve threat detection with OCSF
Security operations centers (SOCs) face significant challenges in monitoring and analyzing security telemetry data from a diverse set of sources. This can result in a fragmented and siloed approach to security operations that makes it difficult to identify and investigate incidents. In this lightning talk, get an introduction to the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) and its taxonomy constructs, and see a quick demo on how this normalized framework can help SOCs improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their security operations.

TDR222 | Lightning talk | Security monitoring for connected devices across OT, IoT, edge & cloud
With the responsibility to stay ahead of cybersecurity threats, CIOs and CISOs are increasingly tasked with managing cybersecurity risks for their connected devices including devices on the operational technology (OT) side of the company. In this lightning talk, learn how AWS makes it simpler to monitor, detect, and respond to threats across the entire threat surface, which includes OT, IoT, edge, and cloud, while protecting your security investments in existing third-party security tools.

TDR223 | Lightning talk | Bolstering incident response with AWS Wickr enterprise integrations
Every second counts during a security event. AWS Wickr provides end-to-end encrypted communications to help incident responders collaborate safely during a security event, even on a compromised network. Join this lightning talk to learn how to integrate AWS Wickr with AWS security services such as Amazon GuardDuty and AWS WAF. Learn how you can strengthen your incident response capabilities by creating an integrated workflow that incorporates GuardDuty findings into a secure, out-of-band communication channel for dedicated teams.

TDR224 | Lightning talk | Securing the future of mobility: Automotive threat modeling
Many existing automotive industry cybersecurity threat intelligence offerings lack the connected mobility insights required for today’s automotive cybersecurity threat landscape. Join this lightning talk to learn about AWS’s approach to developing an automotive industry in-vehicle, domain-specific threat intelligence solution using AWS AI/ML services that proactively collect, analyze, and deduce threat intelligence insights for use and adoption across automotive value chains.

Hands-on sessions (builders’ sessions and workshops)

TDR251 | Builders’ session | Streamline and centralize security operations with AWS Security Hub
AWS Security Hub provides you with a comprehensive view of the security state of your AWS resources by collecting security data from across AWS accounts, Regions, and services. In this builders’ session, explore best practices for using Security Hub to manage security posture, prioritize security alerts, generate insights, automate response, and enrich findings. Come away with a better understanding of how to use Security Hub features and practical tips for getting the most out of this powerful service.

TDR351 | Builders’ session | Broaden your scope: Analyze and investigate potential security issues
In this builders’ session, learn how you can more efficiently triage potential security issues with a dynamic visual representation of the relationship between security findings and associated entities such as accounts, IAM principals, IP addresses, Amazon S3 buckets, and Amazon EC2 instances. With Amazon Detective finding groups, you can group related Amazon GuardDuty findings to help reduce time spent in security investigations and in understanding the scope of a potential issue. Leave this hands-on session knowing how to quickly investigate and discover the root cause of an incident.

TDR352 | Builders’ session | How to automate containment and forensics for Amazon EC2
In this builders’ session, learn how to deploy and scale the self-service Automated Forensics Orchestrator for Amazon EC2 solution, which gives you a standardized and automated forensics orchestration workflow capability to help you respond to Amazon EC2 security events. Explore the prerequisites and ways to customize the solution to your environment.

TDR353 | Builders’ session | Detecting suspicious activity in Amazon S3
Have you ever wondered how to uncover evidence of unauthorized activity in your AWS account? In this builders’ session, join the AWS Customer Incident Response Team (CIRT) for a guided simulation of suspicious activity within an AWS account involving unauthorized data exfiltration and Amazon S3 bucket and object data deletion. Learn how to detect and respond to this malicious activity using AWS services like AWS CloudTrail, Amazon Athena, Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon CloudWatch, and nontraditional threat detection services like AWS Billing to uncover evidence of unauthorized use.

TDR354 | Builders’ session | Simulate and detect unwanted IMDS access due to SSRF
Using appropriate security controls can greatly reduce the risk of unauthorized use of web applications. In this builders’ session, find out how the server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability works, how unauthorized users may try to use it, and most importantly, how to detect it and prevent it from being used to access the instance metadata service (IMDS). Also, learn some of the detection activities that the AWS Customer Incident Response Team (CIRT) performs when responding to security events of this nature.

TDR341 | Code talk | Investigating incidents with Amazon Security Lake & Jupyter notebooks
In this code talk, watch as experts live code and build an incident response playbook for your AWS environment using Jupyter notebooks, Amazon Security Lake, and Python code. Leave with a better understanding of how to investigate and respond to a security event and how to use these technologies to more effectively and quickly respond to disruptions.

TDR441 | Code talk | How to run security incident response in your Amazon EKS environment
Join this Code Talk to get both an adversary’s and a defender’s point of view as AWS experts perform live exploitation of an application running on multiple Amazon EKS clusters, invoking an alert in Amazon GuardDuty. Experts then walk through incident response procedures to detect, contain, and recover from the incident in near real-time. Gain an understanding of how to respond and recover to Amazon EKS-specific incidents as you watch the events unfold.

TDR271-R | Workshop | Chaos Kitty: Gamifying incident response with chaos engineering
When was the last time you simulated an incident? In this workshop, learn to build a sandbox environment to gamify incident response with chaos engineering. You can use this sandbox to test out detection capabilities, play with incident response runbooks, and illustrate how to integrate AWS resources with physical devices. Walk away understanding how to get started with incident response and how you can use chaos engineering principles to create mechanisms that can improve your incident response processes.

TDR371-R | Workshop | Threat detection and response on AWS
Join AWS experts for a hands-on threat detection and response workshop using Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Security Hub, and Amazon Detective. This workshop simulates security events for different types of resources and behaviors and illustrates both manual and automated responses with AWS Lambda. Dive in and learn how to improve your security posture by operationalizing threat detection and response on AWS.

TDR372-R | Workshop | Container threat detection with AWS security services
Join AWS experts for a hands-on container security workshop using AWS threat detection and response services. This workshop simulates scenarios and security events while using Amazon EKS and demonstrates how to use different AWS security services to detect and respond to events and improve your security practices. Dive in and learn how to improve your security posture when running workloads on Amazon EKS.

Browse the full re:Inforce catalog to get details on additional sessions and content at the event, including gamified learning, leadership sessions, partner sessions, and labs.

If you want to learn the latest threat detection and incident response best practices and updates, join us in California by registering for re:Inforce 2023. We look forward to seeing you there!

 
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Celeste Bishop

Celeste Bishop

Celeste is a Product Marketing Manager in AWS Security, focusing on threat detection and incident response solutions. Her background is in experience marketing and also includes event strategy at Fortune 100 companies. Passionate about soccer, you can find her on any given weekend cheering on Liverpool FC, and her local home club, Austin FC.

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Himanshu Verma

Himanshu is a Worldwide Specialist for AWS Security Services. In this role, he leads the go-to-market creation and execution for AWS Security Services, field enablement, and strategic customer advisement. Prior to AWS, he held several leadership roles in Product Management, engineering and development, working on various identity, information security and data protection technologies. He obsesses brainstorming disruptive ideas, venturing outdoors, photography and trying various “hole in the wall” food and drinking establishments around the globe.

A sneak peek at the identity and access management sessions for AWS re:Inforce 2023

Post Syndicated from Marc von Mandel original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/a-sneak-peek-at-the-identity-and-access-management-sessions-for-aws-reinforce-2023/

reInforce 2023

A full conference pass is $1,099. Register today with the code secure150off to receive a limited time $150 discount, while supplies last.

AWS re:Inforce 2023 is fast approaching, and this post can help you plan your agenda with a look at the sessions in the identity and access management track. AWS re:Inforce is a learning conference where you can learn more about cloud security, compliance, identity, and privacy. You have access to hundreds of technical and non-technical sessions, an AWS Partner expo featuring security partners with AWS Security Competencies, and keynote and leadership sessions featuring AWS Security leadership. AWS re:Inforce 2023 will take place in-person in Anaheim, California, on June 13 and 14. re:Inforce 2023 features content in the following six areas:

The identity and access management track will share recommended practices and learnings for identity management and governance in AWS environments. You will hear from other AWS customers about how they are building customer identity and access management (CIAM) patterns for great customer experiences and new approaches for managing standard, elevated, and privileged workforce access. You will also hear from AWS leaders about accelerating the journey to least privilege with access insights and the role of identity within a Zero Trust architecture.

This post highlights some of the identity and access management sessions that you can sign up for, including breakout sessions, chalk talks, code talks, lightning talks, builders’ sessions, and workshops. For the full catalog, see the AWS re:Inforce catalog preview.

Breakout sessions

Lecture-style presentations that cover topics at all levels and delivered by AWS experts, builders, customers, and partners. Breakout sessions typically include 10–15 minutes of Q&A at the end.

IAM201: A first-principles approach: AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Learning how to build effectively and securely on AWS starts with a strong working knowledge of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). In this session aimed at engineers who build on AWS, explore a no-jargon, first-principles approach to IAM. Learn the fundamental concepts of IAM authentication and authorization policies as well as concrete techniques that you can immediately apply to the workloads you run on AWS.

IAM301: Establishing a data perimeter on AWS, featuring USAA
In this session, dive deep into the data perimeter controls that help you manage your trusted identities and their access to trusted resources from expected networks. USAA shares how they use automation to embed security and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) baselines to empower a self-service mindset. Learn how they use data perimeters to support decentralization without compromising on security. Also, discover how USAA uses a threat-based approach to prioritize implementation of specific data perimeters.

IAM302: Create enterprise-wide preventive guardrails, featuring Inter & Co.
In this session, learn how to establish permissions guardrails within your multi-account environment with AWS Organizations and service control policies (SCPs). Explore how effective use of SCPs can help your builders innovate on AWS while maintaining a high bar on security. Learn about the strategies to incorporate SCPs at different levels within your organization. In addition, Inter & Co. share their strategies for implementing enterprise-wide guardrails at scale within their multi-account environments. Discover how they use code repositories and CI/CD pipelines to manage approvals and deployments of SCPs.

IAM303: Balance least privilege & agile development, feat. Fidelity & Merck
Finding a proper balance between securing multiple AWS accounts and enabling agile development to accelerate business innovation has been key to the cloud adoption journey for AWS customers. In this session, learn how Fidelity and Merck empowered their business stakeholders to quickly develop solutions while still conforming to security standards and operating within the guardrails at scale.

IAM304: Migrating to Amazon Cognito, featuring approaches from Fandango
Digital transformation of customer-facing applications often involves changes to identity and access management to help improve security and user experience. This process can benefit from fast-growing technologies and open standards and may involve migration to a modern customer identity and access management solution, such as Amazon Cognito, that offers the security and scale your business requires. There are several ways to approach migrating users to Amazon Cognito. In this session, learn about options and best practices, as well as lessons learned from Fandango’s migration to Amazon Cognito.

IAM305: Scaling access with AWS IAM Identity Center, feat. Allegiant Airlines
In this session, learn how to scale assignment of permission sets to users and groups by automating federated role-based access to any AWS accounts in your organization. As a highlight of this session, hear Allegiant Airlines’ success story of how this automation has benefited Allegiant by centralizing management of federated access for their organization of more than 5,000 employees. Additionally, explore how to build this automation in your environment using infrastructure as code tools like Terraform and AWS CloudFormation using a CI/CD pipeline.

IAM306: Managing hybrid workloads with IAM Roles Anywhere, featuring Hertz
A key element of using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Roles Anywhere is managing how identities are assigned to your workloads. In this session, learn how you can define and manage identities for your workloads, how to use those identities to control access to an AWS resource via attribute-based access control (ABAC), and how to monitor and audit activities performed by those identities. Discover key concepts, best practices, and troubleshooting tips. Hertz describes how they used IAM Roles Anywhere to secure access to AWS services from Salesforce and how it has improved their overall security posture.

IAM307: Steps towards a Zero Trust architecture on AWS
Modern workplaces have evolved beyond traditional network boundaries as they have expanded to hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Identity has taken center stage for information security teams. The need for fine-grained, identity-based authorization, flexible identity-aware networks, and the removal of unneeded pathways to data has accelerated the adoption of Zero Trust principles and architecture. In this session, learn about different architecture patterns and security mechanisms available from AWS that you can apply to secure standard, sensitive, and privileged access to your critical data and workloads.

Builders’ sessions

Small-group sessions led by an AWS expert who guides you as you build the service or product on your own laptop. Use your laptop to experiment and build along with the AWS expert.

IAM351: Sharing resources across accounts with least-privilege permissions
Are you looking to manage your resource access control permissions? Learn how you can author customer managed permissions to provide least-privilege access to your resources shared using AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM). Explore how to use customer managed permissions with use cases ranging from managing incident response with AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager to enhancing your IP security posture with Amazon VPC IP Address Manager.

IAM352: Cedar policy language in action
Cedar is a language for defining permissions as policies that describe who should have access to what. Amazon Verified Permissions and AWS Verified Access use Cedar to define fine-grained permissions for applications and end users. In this builders’ session, come learn by building Cedar policies for access control.

IAM355: Using passwordless authentication with Amazon Cognito and WebAuthn
In recent years, passwordless authentication has been on the rise. The FIDO Alliance, a first-mover for enabling passwordless in 2009, is an open industry association whose stated mission is to develop and promote authentication standards that “help reduce the world’s over-reliance on passwords.” This builders’ session allows participants to learn about and follow the steps to implement a passwordless authentication experience on a web or mobile application using Amazon Cognito.

IAM356: AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies troubleshooting
In this builders’ session, walk through practical examples that can help you build, test, and troubleshoot AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies. Utilize a workflow that can help you create fine-grained access policies with the help of the IAM API, the AWS Management Console, and AWS CloudTrail. Also review key concepts of IAM policy evaluation logic.

Chalk talks

Highly interactive sessions with a small audience. Experts lead you through problems and solutions on a digital whiteboard as the discussion unfolds.

IAM231: Lessons learned from AWS IAM Identity Center migrations
In this chalk talk, discover best practices and tips to migrate your workforce users’ access from IAM users to AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS Single Sign-On). Learn how to create preventive guardrails, gain visibility into the usage of IAM users across an organization, and apply authentication solutions for common use cases.

IAM331: Leaving IAM access keys behind: A modern path forward
Static credentials have been used for a long time to secure multiple types of access, including access keys for AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users, command line tools, secure shell access, application API keys, and pre-shared keys for VPN access. However, best practice recommends replacing static credentials with short-term credentials. In this chalk talk, learn how to identify static access keys in your environment, quantify the risk, and then apply multiple available methods to replace them with short-term credentials. The talk also covers prescriptive guidance and best practice advice for improving your overall management of IAM access keys.

IAM332: Practical identity and access management: The basics of IAM on AWS
Learn from prescriptive guidance on how to build an Identity and Access Management strategy on AWS. We provide guidance on human access versus machine access using services like IAM Identity Center. You will also learn about the different IAM policy types, where each policy type is useful, and how you should incorporate each policy type in your AWS environment. This session will walk you through what you need to know to build an effective identity and access management baseline.

IAM431: A tour of the world of IAM policy evaluation
This session takes you beyond the basics of IAM policy evaluation and focuses on how policy evaluation works with advanced AWS features. Hear about how policies are evaluated alongside AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key grants, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) access points, Amazon VPC Lattice, and more. You’ll leave this session with prescriptive guidance on what to do and what to avoid when designing authorization schemes.

Code talks

Engaging, code-focused sessions with a small audience. AWS experts lead an interactive discussion featuring live coding and/or code samples as they explain the “why” behind AWS solutions.

IAM341: Cedar: Fast, safe, and fine-grained access for your applications
Cedar is a new policy language that helps you write fine-grained permissions in your applications. With Cedar, you can customize authorization and you can define and enforce who can access what. This code talk explains the design of Cedar, how it was built to a high standard of assurance, and its benefits. Learn what makes Cedar ergonomic, fast, and analyzable: simple syntax for expressing common authorization use cases, policy structure that allows for scalable real-time evaluation, and comprehensive auditing based on automated reasoning. Also find out how Cedar’s implementation was made safer through formal verification and differential testing.

IAM441: Enable new Amazon Cognito use cases with OAuth2.0 flows
Delegated authorization without user interaction on a consumer device and reinforced passwordless authentication for higher identity assurance are advanced authentication flows achievable with Amazon Cognito. In this code talk, you can discover new OAuth2.0 flow diagrams, code snippets, and long and short demos that offer different approaches to these authentication use cases. Gain confidence using AWS Lambda triggers with Amazon Cognito, native APIs, and OAuth2.0 endpoints to help ensure greater success in customer identity and access management strategy.

Lightning talks

Short and focused theater presentations that are dedicated to either a specific customer story, service demo, or partner offering (sponsored).

IAM221: Accelerate your business with AWS Directory Service
In this lightning talk, explore AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory and discover a number of use cases that provide flexibility, empower agile application development, and integrate securely with other identity stores. Join the talk to discover how you can take advantage of this managed service and focus on what really matters to your customers.

IAM321: Move toward least privilege with IAM Access Analyzer
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer provides tools that simplify permissions management by making it easy for organizations to set, verify, and refine permissions. In this lightning talk, dive into how you can detect resources shared with an external entity across one or multiple AWS accounts with IAM Access Analyzer. Find out how you can activate and use this feature and how it integrates with AWS Security Hub.

Workshops

Interactive learning sessions where you work in small teams to solve problems using AWS Cloud security services. Come prepared with your laptop and a willingness to learn!

IAM371: Building a Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) solution
How do your customers access your application? Get a head start on customer identity and access management (CIAM) by using Amazon Cognito. Join this workshop to learn how to build CIAM solutions on AWS using Amazon Cognito, Amazon Verified Permissions, and several other AWS services. Start from the basic building blocks of CIAM and build up to advanced user identity and access management use cases in customer-facing applications.

IAM372: Consuming AWS Resources from everywhere with IAM Roles Anywhere
If your workload already lives on AWS, then there is a high chance that some temporary AWS credentials have been securely distributed to perform needed tasks. But what happens when your workload is on premises? In this workshop, learn how to use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Roles Anywhere. Start from the basics and create the necessary steps to learn how to use your applications outside of AWS in a safe way using IAM Roles Anywhere in practice.

IAM373: Building a data perimeter to allow access to authorized users
In this workshop, learn how to create a data perimeter by building controls that allow access to data only from expected network locations and by trusted identities. The workshop consists of five modules, each designed to illustrate a different AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) principle or network control. Learn where and how to implement the appropriate controls based on different risk scenarios.

If these sessions look interesting to you, join us in Anaheim by registering for AWS re:Inforce 2023. We look forward to seeing you there!

 
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Marc von Mandel

Marc leads the product marketing strategy and execution for AWS Identity Services. Prior to AWS, Marc led product marketing at IBM Security Services across several categories, including Identity and Access Management Services (IAM), Network and Infrastructure Security Services, and Cloud Security Services. Marc currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia and enjoys spending time with family, running, and experimenting with cooking.

A sneak peek at the data protection sessions for re:Inforce 2023

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reInforce 2023

A full conference pass is $1,099. Register today with the code secure150off to receive a limited time $150 discount, while supplies last.

AWS re:Inforce is fast approaching, and this post can help you plan your agenda. AWS re:Inforce is a security learning conference where you can gain skills and confidence in cloud security, compliance, identity, and privacy. As a re:Inforce attendee, you have access to hundreds of technical and non-technical sessions, an Expo featuring AWS experts and security partners with AWS Security Competencies, and keynote and leadership sessions featuring Security leadership. AWS re:Inforce 2023 will take place in-person in Anaheim, CA, on June 13 and 14. re:Inforce 2023 features content in the following six areas:

  • Data Protection
  • Governance, Risk, and Compliance
  • Identity and Access Management
  • Network and Infrastructure Security
  • Threat Detection and Incident Response
  • Application Security

The data protection track will showcase services and tools that you can use to help achieve your data protection goals in an efficient, cost-effective, and repeatable manner. You will hear from AWS customers and partners about how they protect data in transit, at rest, and in use. Learn how experts approach data management, key management, cryptography, data security, data privacy, and encryption. This post will highlight of some of the data protection offerings that you can add to your agenda. To learn about sessions from across the content tracks, see the AWS re:Inforce catalog preview.
 

“re:Inforce is a great opportunity for us to hear directly from our customers, understand their unique needs, and use customer input to define solutions that protect sensitive data. We also use this opportunity to deliver content focused on the latest security research and trends, and I am looking forward to seeing you all there. Security is everyone’s job, and at AWS, it is job zero.”
— Ritesh Desai, General Manager, AWS Secrets Manager

 

Breakout sessions, chalk talks, and lightning talks

DAP301: Moody’s database secrets management at scale with AWS Secrets Manager
Many organizations must rotate database passwords across fleets of on-premises and cloud databases to meet various regulatory standards and enforce security best practices. One-time solutions such as scripts and runbooks for password rotation can be cumbersome. Moody’s sought a custom solution that satisfies the goal of managing database passwords using well-established DevSecOps processes. In this session, Moody’s discusses how they successfully used AWS Secrets Manager and AWS Lambda, along with open-source CI/CD system Jenkins, to implement database password lifecycle management across their fleet of databases spanning nonproduction and production environments.

DAP401: Security design of the AWS Nitro System
The AWS Nitro System is the underlying platform for all modern Amazon EC2 instances. In this session, learn about the inner workings of the Nitro System and discover how it is used to help secure your most sensitive workloads. Explore the unique design of the Nitro System’s purpose-built hardware and software components and how they operate together. Dive into specific elements of the Nitro System design, including eliminating the possibility of operator access and providing a hardware root of trust and cryptographic system integrity protections. Learn important aspects of the Amazon EC2 tenant isolation model that provide strong mitigation against potential side-channel issues.

DAP322: Integrating AWS Private CA with SPIRE and Ottr at Coinbase
Coinbase is a secure online platform for buying, selling, transferring, and storing cryptocurrency. This lightning talk provides an overview of how Coinbase uses AWS services, including AWS Private CA, AWS Secrets Manager, and Amazon RDS, to build out a Zero Trust architecture with SPIRE for service-to-service authentication. Learn how short-lived certificates are issued safely at scale for X.509 client authentication (i.e., Amazon MSK) with Ottr.

DAP331: AWS Private CA: Building better resilience and revocation techniques
In this chalk talk, explore the concept of PKI resiliency and certificate revocation for AWS Private CA, and discover the reasons behind multi-Region resilient private PKI. Dive deep into different revocation methods like certificate revocation list (CRL) and Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) and compare their advantages and limitations. Leave this talk with the ability to better design resiliency and revocations.

DAP231: Securing your application data with AWS storage services
Critical applications that enterprises have relied on for years were designed for the database block storage and unstructured file storage prevalent on premises. Now, organizations are growing with cloud services and want to bring their security best practices along. This chalk talk explores the features for securing application data using Amazon FSx, Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS), and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). Learn about the fundamentals of securing your data, including encryption, access control, monitoring, and backup and recovery. Dive into use cases for different types of workloads, such as databases, analytics, and content management systems.

Hands-on sessions (builders’ sessions and workshops)

DAP353: Privacy-enhancing data collaboration with AWS Clean Rooms
Organizations increasingly want to protect sensitive information and reduce or eliminate raw data sharing. To help companies meet these requirements, AWS has built AWS Clean Rooms. This service allows organizations to query their collective data without needing to expose the underlying datasets. In this builders’ session, get hands-on with AWS Clean Rooms preventative and detective privacy-enhancing controls to mitigate the risk of exposing sensitive data.

DAP371: Post-quantum crypto with AWS KMS TLS endpoints, SDKs, and libraries
This hands-on workshop demonstrates post-quantum cryptographic algorithms and compares their performance and size to classical ones. Learn how to use AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) with the AWS SDK for Java to establish a quantum-safe tunnel to transfer the most critical digital secrets and protect them from a theoretical computer targeting these communications in the future. Find out how the tunnels use classical and quantum-resistant key exchanges to offer the best of both worlds, and discover the performance implications.

DAP271: Data protection risk assessment for AWS workloads
Join this workshop to learn how to simplify the process of selecting the right tools to mitigate your data protection risks while reducing costs. Follow the data protection lifecycle by conducting a risk assessment, selecting the effective controls to mitigate those risks, deploying and configuring AWS services to implement those controls, and performing continuous monitoring for audits. Leave knowing how to apply the right controls to mitigate your business risks using AWS advanced services for encryption, permissions, and multi-party processing.

If these sessions look interesting to you, join us in California by registering for re:Inforce 2023. We look forward to seeing you there!

 
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Katie Collins

Katie Collins

Katie is a Product Marketing Manager in AWS Security, where she brings her enthusiastic curiosity to deliver products that drive value for customers. Her experience also includes product management at both startups and large companies. With a love for travel, Katie is always eager to visit new places while enjoying a great cup of coffee.

A sneak peek at the application security sessions for re:Inforce 2023

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reInforce 2023

A full conference pass is $1,099. Register today with the code secure150off to receive a limited time $150 discount, while supplies last.

AWS re:Inforce is a security learning conference where you can gain skills and confidence in cloud security, compliance, identity, and privacy. As a re:Inforce attendee, you have access to hundreds of technical and non-technical sessions, an Expo featuring AWS experts and security partners with AWS Security Competencies, and keynote and leadership sessions featuring Security leadership. AWS re:Inforce 2023 will take place in-person in Anaheim, CA, on June 13 and 14.

In line with recent updates to the Security Pillar of the Well-Architected Framework, we added a new track to the conference on application security. The new track will help you discover how AWS, customers, and AWS Partners move fast while understanding the security of the software they build.

In these sessions, you’ll hear directly from AWS leaders and get hands-on with the tools that help you ship securely. You’ll hear how organization and culture help security accelerate your business, and you’ll dive deep into the technology that helps you more swiftly get features to customers. You might even find some new tools that make it simpler to empower your builders to move quickly and ship securely.

To learn about sessions from across the content tracks, see the AWS re:Inforce catalog preview.

Breakout sessions, chalk talks, and lightning talks

APS221: From code to insight: Amazon Inspector & AWS Lambda in action
In this lightning talk, see a demo of Amazon Inspector support for AWS Lambda. Inspect a Java application running on Lambda for security vulnerabilities using Amazon Inspector for an automated and continual vulnerability assessment. In addition, explore how Amazon Inspector can help you identify package and code vulnerabilities in your serverless applications.

APS302: From IDE to code review, increasing quality and security
Attend this session to discover how to improve the quality and security of your code early in the development cycle. Explore how you can integrate Amazon Code Whisperer, Amazon CodeGuru reviewer, and Amazon Inspector into your development workflow, which can help you identify potential issues and automate your code review process.

APS201: How AWS and MongoDB raise the security bar with distributed ownership
In this session, explore how AWS and MongoDB have approached creating their Security Guardians and Security Champions programs. Learn practical advice on scoping, piloting, measuring, scaling, and managing a program with the goal of accelerating development with a high security bar, and discover tips on how to bridge the gap between your security and development teams. Learn how a guardians or champions program can improve security outside of your dev teams for your company as a whole when applied broadly across your organization.

APS202: AppSec tooling & culture tips from AWS & Toyota Motor North America
In this session, AWS and Toyota Motor North America (TMNA) share how they scale AppSec tooling and culture across enterprise organizations. Discover practical advice and lessons learned from the AWS approach to threat modeling across hundreds of service teams. In addition, gain insight on how TMNA has embedded security engineers into business units working on everything from mainframes to serverless. Learn ways to support teams at varying levels of maturity, the importance of differentiating between risks and vulnerabilities, and how to balance the use of cloud-native, third-party, and open-source tools at scale.

APS331: Shift security left with the AWS integrated builder experience
As organizations start building their applications on AWS, they use a wide range of highly capable builder services that address specific parts of the development and management of these applications. The AWS integrated builder experience (IBEX) brings those separate pieces together to create innovative solutions for both customers and AWS Partners building on AWS. In this chalk talk, discover how you can use IBEX to shift security left by designing applications with security best practices built in and by unlocking agile software to help prevent security issues and bottlenecks.

Hands-on sessions (builders’ sessions and workshops)

APS271: Threat modeling for builders
Attend this facilitated workshop to get hands-on experience creating a threat model for a workload. Learn some of the background and reasoning behind threat modeling, and explore tools and techniques for modeling systems, identifying threats, and selecting mitigations. In addition, explore the process for creating a system model and corresponding threat model for a serverless workload. Learn how AWS performs threat modeling internally, and discover the principles to effectively perform threat modeling on your own workloads.

APS371: Integrating open-source security tools with the AWS code services
AWS, open-source, and partner tooling works together to accelerate your software development lifecycle. In this workshop, learn how to use Automated Security Helper (ASH), a source-application security tool, to quickly integrate various security testing tools into your software build and deployment flows. AWS experts guide you through the process of security testing locally on your machines and within the AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, and AWS CodePipeline services. In addition, discover how to identify potential security issues in your applications through static analysis, software composition analysis, and infrastructure-as-code testing.

APS352: Practical shift left for builders
Providing early feedback in the development lifecycle maximizes developer productivity and enables engineering teams to deliver quality products. In this builders’ session, learn how to use AWS Developer Tools to empower developers to make good security decisions early in the development cycle. Tools such as Amazon CodeGuru, Amazon CodeWhisperer, and Amazon DevOps Guru can provide continuous real-time feedback upon each code commit into a source repository and supplement this with ML capabilities integrated into the code review stage.

APS351: Secure software factory on AWS through the DoD DevSecOps lens
Modern information systems within regulated environments are driven by the need to develop software with security at the forefront. Increasingly, organizations are adopting DevSecOps and secure software factory patterns to improve the security of their software delivery lifecycle. In this builder’s session, we will explore the options available on AWS to create a secure software factory aligned with the DoD Enterprise DevSecOps initiative. We will focus on the security of the software supply chain as we deploy code from source to an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) environment.

If these sessions look interesting to you, join us in California by registering for re:Inforce 2023. We look forward to seeing you there!

 
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Paul helps customers of all sizes understand how to think about cloud security so they can build the technology and culture where security is a business enabler. He takes an optimistic approach to security and believes that getting the foundations right is the key to improving your security posture.