Tag: Compliance

Enabling DevSecOps with Amazon CodeCatalyst

March 29, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

DevSecOps is the practice of integrating security testing at every stage of the software development process. Amazon CodeCatalyst includes tools that encourage collaboration between developers, security specialists, and operations teams to build software that is both efficient and secure. DevSecOps brings cultural transformation that makes…

Building Automation for Fraud Detection Using OpenSearch and Terraform

March 14, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

Organizations that interface with online payments are continuously monitoring and guarding against fraudulent activity. Transactional fraud usually presents itself as discrete data points, making it challenging to identify multiple actors involved in the same group of transactions. Even a single actor operating over a period…

Securely validate business application resilience with AWS FIS and IAM

February 25, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

To avoid high costs of downtime, mission critical applications in the cloud need to achieve resilience against degradation of cloud provider APIs and services. In 2021, AWS launched AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS), a fully managed service to perform fault injection experiments on workloads in AWS…

AWS Teams with OSTIF on Open Source Security Audits

February 3, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

We are excited to announce that AWS is sponsoring open source software security audits by the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF), a non-profit dedicated to securing open source. This funding is part of a broader initiative at Amazon Web Services (AWS) to support open source…

Manually Approving Security Changes in CDK Pipeline

January 20, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

In this post I will show you how to add a manual approval to AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) Pipelines to confirm security changes before deployment. With this solution, when a developer commits a change, CDK pipeline identifies an IAM permissions change, pauses execution, and…

Secure CDK deployments with IAM permission boundaries

January 17, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

The AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) accelerates cloud development by allowing developers to use common programming languages when modelling their applications. To take advantage of this speed, developers need to operate in an environment where permissions and security controls don’t slow things down, and in…