Spain – Noise

AWS expands Spain’s ENS High certification across 174 services

Daniel Fuertes — Thu, 08 May 2025 19:05:16 +0000

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has successfully renewed its Esquema Nacional de Seguridad (ENS) High certification under the latest framework established by Royal Decree 311/2022. This achievement demonstrates the continued dedication of AWS to meeting the stringent security requirements essential for serving Spanish government entities and public organizations. The ENS framework serves as the cornerstone of […]

AWS renews its AAA Pinakes rating for the Spanish financial sector

Daniel Fuertes — Thu, 08 May 2025 16:40:43 +0000

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has successfully revalidated its prestigious AAA rating under the Pinakes qualification system, with certification coverage extending to 174 services across 31 global AWS Regions. This achievement marks a significant milestone in the commitment of AWS to serving the Spanish financial sector with the highest security standards and assurance. The Pinakes framework, […]

CCN releases guide for Spain’s ENS landing zones using Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS

Tomás Clemente Sánchez — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 17:14:50 +0000

Spanish version » The Spanish National Cryptologic Center (CCN) has published a new STIC guide (CCN-STIC-887 Anexo A) that provides a comprehensive template and supporting artifacts for implementing landing zones that comply with Spain’s National Security Framework (ENS) Royal Decree 311/2022 using the Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS. Spain’s ENS establishes a common framework of […]

AWS achieves Spain’s ENS High 311/2022 certification across 172 services

Daniel Fuertes — Mon, 06 May 2024 13:23:36 +0000

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has recently renewed the Esquema Nacional de Seguridad (ENS) High certification, upgrading to the latest version regulated under Royal Decree 311/2022. The ENS establishes security standards that apply to government agencies and public organizations in Spain and service providers on which Spanish public services depend. This security framework has gone through […]

AWS achieves an AAA Pinakes rating for Spanish financial entities

Daniel Fuertes — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 01:54:22 +0000

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce that we have achieved an AAA rating from Pinakes. The scope of this qualification covers 166 services in 25 global AWS Regions. The Spanish banking association Centro de Cooperación Interbancaria (CCI) developed Pinakes, a rating framework intended to manage and monitor the cybersecurity controls of service providers […]

The National Intelligence Center of Spain and AWS collaborate to promote public sector cybersecurity

Borja Larrumbide — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 06:16:48 +0000

Spanish version » The National Intelligence Center and National Cryptological Center (CNI-CCN)—attached to the Spanish Ministry of Defense—and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have signed a strategic collaboration agreement to jointly promote cybersecurity and innovation in the public sector through AWS Cloud technology. Under the umbrella of this alliance, the CNI-CCN will benefit from the help […]

Authority to operate (ATO) on AWS Program now available for customers in Spain

Greg Herrmann — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 21:21:44 +0000

Meeting stringent security and compliance requirements in regulated or public sector environments can be challenging and time consuming, even for organizations with strong technical competencies. To help customers navigate the different requirements and processes, we launched the ATO on AWS Program in June 2019 for US customers. The program involves a community of expert AWS […]

Charles V of Spain Secret Code Cracked

Bruce Schneier — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 12:19:38 +0000

Diplomatic code cracked after 500 years:

In painstaking work backed by computers, Pierrot found “distinct families” of about 120 symbols used by Charles V. “Whole words are encrypted with a single symbol” and the emperor replaced vowels coming after consonants with marks, she said, an inspiration probably coming from Arabic.

In another obstacle, he used meaningless symbols to mislead any adversary trying to decipher the message.

The breakthrough came in June when Pierrot managed to make out a phrase in the letter, and the team then cracked the code with the help of Camille Desenclos, a historian. “It was painstaking and long work but there was really a breakthrough that happened in one day, where all of a sudden we had the right hypothesis,” she said...

AWS achieves Spain’s ENS High certification across 166 services

Daniel Fuertes — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 16:11:10 +0000

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is committed to bringing additional services and AWS Regions into the scope of our Esquema Nacional de Seguridad (ENS) High certification to help customers meet their regulatory needs. ENS is Spain’s National Security Framework. The ENS certification is regulated under the Spanish Royal Decree 3/2010 and is a compulsory requirement for […]

AWS achieves Spain’s ENS High certification across 149 services

Niyaz Noor — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 20:33:54 +0000

Gaining and maintaining customer trust is an ongoing commitment at Amazon Web Services (AWS). We continually add more services to our ENS certification scope. This helps to assure public sector organizations in Spain that want to build secure applications and services on AWS that the expected ENS certification security standards are being met. ENS certification […]